One started at the slamming of a door, took every dull thump for a distant explosion; and when we finally turned in I carried the mattress from my room, which faced the south, over to the other side of the building, and laid it on the floor beside another man's bed.

They had just started up the stairs when Violet cried out, her voice sounding sharp in the stillness: "What's that?" Right over their heads there came a creepy, slithery sound, followed by a loud thump.

Her heart gave a sudden thump of mingled fear and dismay.

Suddenly he put out a hand and switched off the light, a gesture quite involuntary, simple reaction to the muffled thump of a chair overturned on the floor above.

"'The master, mumthe poor masterhe is dead, mumI am sure he is dead!'accompanied by vigorous thumps against the glass partition, and not very measured language on the part of the watchman from the outer office, such as'Why don't you open the door instead of making that row?' "Mrs. Ireland is not the sort of woman who, under any circumstances, would lose her presence of mind.

Then the elder suddenly put his pen down and hit his desk a noisy thump with his fist.

But hate now my bosom is burning, And all through my being I long To get one solid thump on the head of the chump Who wrote the new popular song.

"Above my head the heavy rumbling of the great wheels, over which the cable was passing and was being regulated, every now and then giving a tremendous thump like the discharge of artillery, kept me from sleep, and I knew they were approaching the critical point.

He heard the clattering thump of pursuing feet.

It was not His heart gave a big excited thump.

Panting, breathless, her heart beating with fierce, irregular thumps, she toiled up the rocky track, and, crossing the summit, began to descend on the other side.

Like any other novice in the practice, he could not divest his mind of the impression, that the frightful thumps he continually received, in twirling the merciless thing around and behind his devoted head, were due to some kind of crowding influence from the boundaries on either side the way, and it was to gain relief from such damaging contraction of area that he left the highway for the wider wintry fields.

"I have forgotten what we are fighting about," he observed, after ten minutes of heroic thumps and hangings; "or, to be perfectly exact, I never knew.

Panting, breathless, her heart beating with fierce, irregular thumps, she toiled up the rocky track, and, crossing the summit, began to descend on the other side.

I went to rest last night with the heavy murmuring sound of the falls in my ears, broken at short intervals by the busy thump-thump-thump of the Indian drum; for it is to be added, to the otherwise crowded state of the place, that the open grounds and river-side greens of the village, which stretch along irregularly for a mile or two, are filled with the lodges of visiting Indian bands from the interior.

He tried to com-fort her, and to smile through his tears, as he put on his hat with a re-so-lute thump, seiz-ed up-on his stick and wal-let, and lift-ed the latch of the door that was to o-pen for his bold en-trance in-to the world, so full of pro-mise to him.

Nor are jewelled pendants made in presses, nor beautiful bracelets banged into shape by the mechanical thump of a stamping machine.

We could plainly hear the deep murmur of the falls, after we lay down to rest, and also the monotonous thump of the distant Indian wabeno drum.

"That last one I gave him was a beastly thump.

"Well?" she said, throwing her head and elbows back, provoking an unintentional thump and tinkle.

His stick landed on somebody's head with a resounding thump followed by a yell of pain.

" 4 Willow lifted groceries from the bicycle basket, took them inside, and set them on the counter with a satisfying thump.

He did not heed the caution, and received a severe thump on his head as the result of his neglect.

A second later something shrieked hurtling down and past his gun team, and struck with a vicious thump into the ground.

Suddenly I got a shake; and then a little fist gave me a stunning thump on the back, that made the cherry bounce out against my palate.