What followed that afternoon was a spectacle of thunder and lightning, thrilling to see and feel _ the thunder rattling down the canyons, so loud that it felt that the earth was shaking, the lightning harpooning the mountain rim, as bright as strobe lights.
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His 6'7 " frame is crammed at the wheel of a 1978 motor home, rattling down the road from a somewhat disappointing Bryan campaign stop, after another before-sunrise start to his long-shot bid for U . S . Senate.
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It's 7 a . m . and a blanket of thick, inky darkness covers the winter sky as Billings climbs into his truck and rattles down the road to his art studio housed in the basement of a weathered turquoise building across from the famed Sherbino Theater.
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Knotting, splicing, making mats, and learning the nomenclature of the different parts of the hull and spars, and the names and uses of ropes and sails, are among the first lessons in seamanship, and during periods of calm weather the rigging is reset and rattled down.
