Stella looked and listened until there was but a faint thrum far up the lake.

" We had now come to the road in front of the house, and Mount set his cap rakishly on his head, straightened cape and baldrick, and ran his fingers through the gorgeous thrums rippling from sleeve and thigh.

In the midst of the hum They heard a loud and slashing thrum: 'Twas the king: and each his breath drew in

Ferragut felt a pleasure in these relations of imperial splendor, palaces of gold, epic encounters and furious frays, while his ship was navigating through the black night and bounding over the dark sea accompanied by the throbbing of machinery and the noisy thrum of the screw, at times out of the water during the furious rocking from prow to poop.

Far off, from the red purgatory between the walls, sounds the savage thrum-thrum of a negro orgy, here all is peace and perfume.

The tuneless thrumming of a piano sounded behind him.

A band of Italian musicians wandered into the garden and began to sing Verdi to a vigorous thrumming of guitars.