Word: subterranean
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...earth and at night the bald moon looked unpleasantly red, and the stars, shorn of their rays by the mist, loomed out like the heads of copper nails, while the water in the river reflected the troubled sky and gave one the impression of a stream of thick, subterranean smoke...
...time of Tutankhamen's exhumation in Egypt, striking versions of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, together with emissaries from the Powers-not omitting the heavenly, for an angel descended blithely by pulley and wire from a third-story window, entered the Cambridge market square and there, from the subterranean public mictuary, resurrected a cigar store Indian, one Phineas...
...terrible subterranean roaring, cracking, quaking continued spasmodically, with violent surface undulations, the terror of which can be imagined only by those who have experienced it or who have read Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii...
...pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which readily refined to kerosene, gasoline and the usual by-products of that "black gold" which nature only makes after centuries of compression upon organic matter in subterranean strata...
...tunnel is everywhere large enough to enable a man to stand creet and walk comfortably, providing that the walker does not mind a temperature of over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Everywhere, that is except the point where it crosses Massachusetts Avenue. At this point the subterranean traveler must get in a little car and pull himself over the small space between the street surface and the so-called Elevated...