Sudden irregularities and constrictions cause small waves to break, and jets to impact the water, trapping bubbles of air; cavitation creates bubbles of water vapour where the water impacts upon rock and stone; the bubbles oscillate, creating sound waves in the water, which propagate to the surface, and thence transmit to the air as a tranquilising murmur. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)
In dangerous situations would it not be possible for trained firearms officers to use similarly powerful tranquilising darts in their guns rather than potentially fatal bullets or possibly ineffective CS gas? on September 10, 2008 at 7: 46 pm | Reply jaegerdude ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)
It harms the brain, suspends or annihilates critical thought, pollutes the mind, dumbing it down and tranquilising it with endless trivia, cultivating dissatisfaction and envy of the rich or better off. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Therefore, Ottoman diplomacy was the best means of “tranquilising the Sudan by pacific means.” ❋ Dominic Green (2007)
In the dusky evening light and stillness — for the sun had gone now and the wind had altogether fallen-this inverted yellow face was anything but a tranquilising object to discover suddenly a couple of yards away. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Theron claimed he received a tranquilising dart from EMLC for one of his first operations, and thereafter regularly received tranquilisers and deadly muscle relaxants from Basson, which he used to kill "hundreds" of Swapo detainees and also own forces that were regarded as a security risk. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Although he had obtained tranquilising darts from the Parks Board, he had not supplied any of them to Theron, he said. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Acting in conformity with this shallow and false estimate of the situation, they allowed to drift away unused the time which wise statesmen would have employed in the effectuation of conciliatory and tranquilising measures, and applied themselves simply to the crushing out from the Irish mind of every hope of improved legislation, and the defeat of every effort to obtain it. ❋ Various (N/A)
A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
In the dusky evening light and stillness -- for the sun had gone now and the wind had altogether fallen-this inverted yellow face was anything but a tranquilising object to discover suddenly a couple of yards away. ❋ Unknown (1906)
As it was, however, the moderate and tranquilising authority of the kings had so fostered it that it was at last able to bring forth the fair fruits of liberty in the maturity of its strength. ❋ Unknown (1905)
But what she did had a tranquilising effect; she seemed to enable life to win the victory over the insidious pranks of apparitions. ❋ Jakob Wassermann (1903)
"Quiet, now, quiet, Master Hunston," said Pike, "or I shall have to try means for tranquilising you which you won't find agree with you." ❋ Bracebridge Hemyng (1871)
Under its mysterious and tranquilising influence, all impressions of the gloom and misery in the city, of the fatal evidences around them of the duration of the siege, faded away before their perceptions as dim retiring objects, which the eye loses in vacancy. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
Mr Hanna, a former director of Columbus Zoo, in the nearby Ohio state capital, said tranquilising animals in the dark was incredibly dangerous, and told reporters that "the sheriff did the right thing". ❋ Unknown (2011)
"An effort to rescue the wild beast after tranquilising it didn't bear fruit," he said. ❋ Sabin Chandra Acharya (2010)
Opinion is divided about whether body armour or a tranquilising dart is the proper approach to Alastair Campbell. ❋ Unknown (2010)
