For a moment the tortured air quivered in comparative silence; then the girl's voice spoke again.

She could hear the muted howl of the tortured air on the other side of the hull, mere centimeters from her seat.

White light engulfs the landscape as fusion bolts sear through tortured air.

The whang and wow of electronic instruments began to rip the tortured air.

The long-legged birds seemed to float free of the earth, blooming miraculously in the tortured air above the plain.

Here Clay plunged in thick murk, a weight of tortured air prickling his nose, making sweat pop from his face.

They begin to revolve upon themselves gigantic whirlpools of tortured air, and as they advance, so they, gain in strength and power and velocity.

A whirlwind surrounds him, a spiral blur of tortured air, flying debris, swirling ash.

The wavering was greatest in the direction of Ankh-Morpork, where flashes and fountains of tortured air indicated that the struggle hadn't abated.

A single shaft of pure, white light lanced into the ground, practically at Tarma's feet, accompanied by an earsplitting shriek of tortured air.