The disturbance seems generally, as in the case of Concepcion, to have been of two kinds: first, at the instant of the shock, the water swells high up on the beach with a gentle motion, and then as quietly retreats; secondly, some time afterwards, the whole body of the sea retires from the coast, and then returns in waves of overwhelming force.
The island of Juan Fernandez, 360 miles to the N.E., was, at the time of the great shock of the 20th, violently shaken, so that the trees beat against each other, and a volcano burst forth under water close to the shore: these facts are remarkable because this island, during the earthquake of 1751, was then also affected more violently than other places at an equal distance from Concepcion, and this seems to show some subterranean connection between these two points.
Some men, cutting wood near the base of one of these volcanos, did not perceive the shock of the 20th, although the whole surrounding Province was then trembling; here we have an eruption relieving and taking the place of an earthquake, as would have happened at Concepcion, according to the belief of the lower orders, if the volcano at Antuco had not been closed by witchcraft.
The Voyage of the Beagle
She sat down at the end of the shock, her face turned somewhat away from her companions.
The harvest-men rose from the shock of corn, and stretched their limbs, and extinguished their pipes.
Some such collapse had been probable, so tender and puny was its frame; but the event came as a shock nevertheless.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
The following are extracts from Chace's narrative: Every fact seemed to warrant me in concluding that it was anything but chance which directed his operations; he made two several attacks upon the ship, at a short interval between them, both of which, according to their direction, were calculated to do us the most injury, by being made ahead, and thereby combining the speed of the two objects for the
shock; to effect which, the exact manoeuvres which he made were necessary.
Moby Dick I LXVII
At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst the passengers were assembled at lunch in the great saloon, a slight shock was felt on the hull of the Scotia, on her quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle.
The shock had been so slight that no one had been alarmed, had it not been for the shouts of the carpenter's watch, who rushed on to the bridge, exclaiming, "We are sinking!
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
"No," said Barbicane, "let us stretch ourselves on our sides; we shall resist the shock better that way.
Suddenly a dreadful shock was felt, and the projectile, under the force of six billions of litres of gas, developed by the combustion of pyroxyle, mounted into space.
Round The Moon
He also observed that if the projectile did not succeed in reaching its destination (a result absolutely impossible), it must inevitably fall back upon the earth, and that the
shock of such a mass, multiplied by the square of its velocity, would seriously endanger every point of the globe.
From The Earth To The Moon
True, the
shock of their fall was communicated to the cerebral cells, but they died immediately, before they could have progeny.
Before Adam
Julia's elopement could affect her comparatively but little; she was amazed and
shocked; but it could not occupy her, could not dwell on her mind.
Mansfield Park
In a study of 46 healthy adults, researchers compared participants' emotional reactions to replacing an unpleasant electric
shock on the wrist with a surprise neutral tone, instead of simply turning off the
shocks.
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