The Pillars of the Earth vocabulary

Moving from North America to an atoll was like being transported from the lush cacophany of St. Peter's Basilica to the austerity of the Bodhi Tree.

J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p. 6 (2013)

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It was during my stay in City of the Colleges of Unreason—a city whose Erewhonian name is so cacophonous that I refrain from giving it—that I learned the particulars of the revolution which had ended in the destruction of so many of the mechanical inventions which were formerly in common use.

Samuel Butler. Erewhon

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“Yet I’m not really angry,” he assured himself, “when I see how she longs to run away and scratch from maggots in that dunghill of cacophony.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way