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
...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
...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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