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Involving irregularity of movement or advance.

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  • Occasionally, the likeness was still closer, in the succession of sound, subsultory motion and concluding horizontal undulations.
  • Outside the ruinous zone, the first phase rapidly lost what remained of its subsultory form, and the pause between the two parts was noticeably longer than near the...
  • In the second zone (Fig. 19), the same two phases were universally observed, but the subsultory movement was less pronounced or the movement was partly subsultory...
  • Zafarraya, a loud sound like thunder was first heard, and before it ceased there came a violent subsultory movement preceded by a very brief oscillation, then a pause of...
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