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SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


61.

Schoolboys' briefcases rattling "... the tools of learning rattling amain in their walrus-skin satchels."

Thomas Mann, Stories of Three Decades, "Tonio Kroger", p. 85.

PLACE: North Germany

TIME: ca. 1900

 

62.

...the big wood-yards down by the river, where powerful machine-saws hissed and spat and cut up timber.

Thomas Mann, Stories of Three Decades, "Tonio Kroger", (1903), p. 85.

PLACE: North Germany

TIME: ca. 1900

 

63.

...the strong, damp wind that rattled and groaned in the leafless trees.

Thomas Mann, Stories of Three Decades, "Tonio Kroger", (1903), p. 91.

PLACE: North Germany

TIME: ca. 1900


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