"None of your tricks, Dagmar," said Ethel, facing the wretched young man, and then turning her head as though to look at her sister, which manoeuvre had the intended effect of giving John Arbuthnot Sharnbrook a magnificent oscillatory opportunity.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
It is unquestionably true, however, that great oscillatory movements, such as described above, and which can only be attributed to subterranean agencies, have frequently taken and are still taking place.
"Geology"
James Geikie
It would thus appear that periodic phenomena may be propagated through space without vibratory or oscillatory motion.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc