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How terribly downright must seem the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.
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"Flood-Storm in the Sierra", Overland Monthly, volume 14, number 6 (June 1875) pages 489-496 (at page 494)

 
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