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The silence during the ceremony had been almost complete, broken only by the odd drowsy chuckle of a hen or the shrill, and instantly repressed, squall of a baby...
Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Collins, London, 1969, p.57.
TIME: about 1935
PLACE: Corfu
The whole of this mysterious conversation was accompanied by a strange pittapattering noise, as though someone were bouncing ping-pong balls on the tile floor of the hall .....
Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Collins, London, 1969, p.91.
TIME: about 1935
PLACE: Corfu
CIRCUMSTANCE: a donkey
From inside the house came a series of piercing shrieks, interspersed with cries for help from the Almighty, the Virgin Mary and St. Spiridion.
Gerald Durrell, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, Collins, London, 1969, p. 98.
TIME: about 1935
PLACE: Corfu
CIRCUMSTANCE: a birth.
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