I heard the blows, the oaths, the cries of pain, the dull thud of wood against bone, the sharp clang of steel in contact, the shuffling of feet on the deck, the splash of bodies hurled overboard.

Dan had started into the room, and Dave was about to follow, when he heard an unusually loud thud at the further end of the deck.

The muffled thud of the pick upon earth became a clang as it struck upon stone.

And then, even as I made halt upon the threshold of doubt, I was assured that I had not been mistaken; for, abruptly, I was aware that all the valley was full of a rustling, scampering sort of noise, through which there came to me occasional soft thuds, and anon the former slithering sounds.

He called "Anne! Anne!" A light thud on the floor of Anne's room, then the soft padding of naked feet, and Anne stood beside him in her white nightgown.

And she felt herself carried fourteen years backward, and she remained standing, quivering, icy cold, listening to the sounds which arose from the works, waiting for the awful thud of the fall, even as on the distant day when she had listened and waited for the other to be crushed and killed.

At first she just sat empty of sensation except for the shock of those faint thuds of sound.

What was that?" A faint, sharp thud from behind had been followed instantly by the shattering of a ground-floor window in front.

He thought that the sack was lowered from the window in order to be committed to the temporary guardianship of the Sergeant, who was doubtless looking out for it and, if he had his ears open, would hear its gentle thud.

" The afternoon had been all that a summer afternoon on the brown highlands can be, and the powerful touring car had swept them from mile to mile over the dun hills like an earth-skimming dragon whose wing-beat was the muffled, explosive thud of the motor.

We heard him strike with a frightful thud.

There was not even a groanonly a dull thud some way underneath, such as you may hear when the children of the quarter play football on the streets.

There was no sharp sound of firingonly the hideous thud of furious flesh against furious fleshthe one sound that the bravest woman cannot hear in silence.

She heard the hollow thud of the earth falling on the coffin; and she leaned against the iron fence, sobbing softly, until the grave was filled and rounded off, and the wreaths and other floral pieces were disposed upon it.

The floors shook constantly with the incessant thud of the great looms that filled each story, like heavy, monotonous thunder.

At the mining-camp the station is in darkness save for the goggle eyes of an automobile drawn up beside the platform, and deep silence reigns but for the muffled, irregular thud of the auto-car's motor.

He fell with a limp thud on the boards.

King moved a few paces nearer, pushed aside a low branch from which the snow dropped with little thuds, and saw the men.

There is a loud, quick thudding upon the door, and I am falling, falling.... I must have lain there, at least a couple of hours.

Then I began to hear the measured thud of my brother's blows, the blows of a workman who knows how to strike and where to strike.

There was a metallic thud as they let down a burden, which I knew must be a sack of gold.

There was a rush up the alley past her hiding-place, a shout, and the savage thud of blows.

Once when it seemed near, the hooting of an owl near the open window drove it away; and once in the vague twilight before the dawn she started awake to hear the sharp thudding of a horse's hoofs galloping upon the turf not very far away.

She felt the slight thud as the cat leaped up and found refuge on top of the statue.

Pizarro raised his head, whining amicably, and, as Wesley bent over to pat him, wagged his tail with a spasmodic thud against the floor, in sign of goodfellowship.