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We cannot, indeed, quite suppress the fancy that some mightier counter-concussion must have filled the air at Thrasimene, when "an earthquake reeled unheededly away:" Nemo pugnantium senserit, avers Livy.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various

The day ended with a sudden trembling of the ship, as if straining at anchor; but the crew was again performing fantasia, and the earthquake or sea-quake rolled unheededly away.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir