The distant rumbling of thunder grew louder, and she huddled herself again under the tree.

The night march over the unending roads, through the gloom and the spectral starlight, with the dull rumblings of cannon shocking his heartthat Dorn lived over, finding strangely a minutest detail of observation and a singular veracity of feeling fixed in his memory.

A subterranean rumbling was audible throughout all lands; a dull thundering and outcry, as though the solid earth were about to change into one vast volcanoone measureless craterthat would dash to atoms, and entomb, with its blazing lava-streams and fiery cinder-showers, the happiness and peace of all humanity.

The only comment he made was a sort of internal rumbling, suggestive of the preliminary notice of an earthquake.

There was smoke there along the horizonmuch smoke, both white and dark; and, even as the throb of the motor died away to a purr, the sound of big guns came to us in a faint rumbling, borne from a long way off by the breeze.

The monotonous rumbling of the ambulance wheels sounded distinctly upon his ear, and he could listen, with a kind of objectless curiosity, to the casual conversation of the driver, as he exchanged words here and there with others, who were returning upon the same dismal errand from the scene of carnage.

"Stay!" shrieked the governess, no longer undetermined; "receive my child, though you abandon me!" A wave of the hand, and an indistinct rumbling in the coarse tones of the mate, were the only answers given to her appeal.

He was not disinclined to favour the scheme, and was just on the point of saying that he agreed to itwhen they heard a loud rumbling behind them.

If the revolt were confined to autocratic governments, we might see in it merely a reaction against tyranny; but even in the most stable of democracies and among the most enlightened peoples, the underground rumblings of revolution may be heard.

We are only at the stage of tentative underground rumblings.

And then the War, the short month of long, long days in the apartment on the avenue des Champs-Elysées, waiting, waiting, while the earth trembled to the tramp of armed men and the tireless rumbling of caissons and camions, and the air was vibrant with the savage dialogue of cannon, ever louder, daily more near....

Into the awful silence came a tremendous rumbling that increased each second till I pictured it as a cancer of noise growing with appalling rapidity within the encompassing stillness.

The stupid class in control kept throwing fuel on the flame, and then wondered at the alarming rumblings.

Not far to the north is the famous Rumble Churn in the rocks below Dunstanborough Castle, where the waves roll in and out of the caves and chasms with weird and hollow rumblings.

It is very, very nice to be here, able to go out without our things and expecting no company, and what at first one feels more nice than everything, not having any carriages or noises out of doors; for eight months and a half we have never been without that horrid, constant rumbling in the streets.

He opened one of the windows of his room; the sky was dark, some storm must be passing in the distance, for there was a continuous rumbling of thunder.

The curious rumbling came softly in MacDonald's beard and his eyes were bright with a whimsical humour.

Their incessant rumbling soon awakened ten-year-old Billie and five-year-old brother Robert.

I was about to turn away when my ear caught a new and unusual sound rising above that distant murmur; the measured tread of feet mingling with the clatter of horses' hoofs and a heavy, metallic rumbling.

But Heaven did not overwhelm him that day, nor was there the slightest rumbling of thunder.

After a short interval, a sudden rumbling, followed by a heavy explosion, announced that the fuse had done its work, and that the Piccadilly Tube, the fruit of many toilsome weeks of Boche calculation and labour, had been permanently closed to traffic of all descriptions.

It was not, when I went there some months ago, a very long distance from the fighting lines in these days of long-range guns, but it was a place of strange quietude in which it was easy to forget the actuality of war until one was reminded by sullen far-off rumblings which made the windows tremble, and made men lift their heads a moment to say: "They are busy out there to-day."