A furious blow on the table
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e dando sobre a mesa um furioso murro com o punho fechado.
and dealing a furious blow on the table with his clenched fist.
The violence he cannot spend on the people around him lands on the furniture — a fist crashing on the writing-table, the very table of the promise. Physical temper standing in for the power he is, for once, being denied.
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