All night the British big guns had been pouring a steady stream of high explosive shells into the German positions, great detonations overlapping one another like the rapid crackling of machine-gun fire and swelling into a mighty volume of thunder that shook the earth and stunned the senses.

Almost simultaneously, as it seemed, there was a corresponding succession of flashes and sharp detonations in the line along the hillside along what appeared to be our trenches.

The detonations of the cannon came in such rapid succession that they sounded like giant machine guns and the windows of the dressing stations for the wounded shook as if from an earthquake.

When the wind freshened again it brought at intervals those deep, significant detonations which, as the hours passed, seemed to grow heavier and more thunderous.

Then the sky opened, and the noise of the tempestuous forest was drowned in long, rolling detonations of thunder, and the wild lightning flamed down upon us, and set the forest on fire.

According to him, with a terrific earthquake, clouds of ashes were driven into the air with violent detonations from a mountain situated at the eastern end of the island.

I declined the friendly invitation of the alcalde to accompany him any further; as to me, who had no official business to transact, the journey seemed nothing but a continually recurring panorama of dinners, lunches, cups of chocolate, music, and detonations of gunpowder.

The thunder, too, was terrific, and the earth seemed to vibrate to its rolling detonations.

For some time there was a continuous rattle of musketry, with rapid detonations of deeper-mouthed cannon,at each roar shaking our suspended hearts,for we knew that our own men were using small arms only.

A couple of months previously they had been at first surprised, then alarmed, by several distinct detonations that appeared to have taken place in the interior of the mountain.

The internal crackings and detonations could be plainly heard, and a sheaf of smoke was swayed by the wind at the summit.

The detonations and rumblings that so alarmed the Bermudan fishers were not caused by the internal workings of nature.

August 18.At one o'clock this morning I was roused by several detonations.

The drug-like smell of the smokeless powder, the dull thud of the detonations appeared to intoxicate him.

The bombardment had grown sharper and the rumble of guns was uninterrupted, growling like thunder after a summer storm or as the shells passed shrieking and then bursting with jarring detonations.

His head whirled like a tee-to-tum, and his pulses beat sharp and irregular as the detonations of a bundle of crackers.

Between you and me, if I had to choose between a boat and a horse I don't know which I should" Two sharp detonations cut off his words.

" The clockwork roared and raged and exploded with the sharp detonations of a machine-gun.

The drums were beaten, horns were blown in the midst of the detonations of fire-arms.

The soldiers of the caravan discharged their old guns, the low detonations of which were but little louder than the vociferations of the crowd.

Some detonations burst forth.

Cries, funeral dances, magicians' incantations, noises from instruments and detonations from old muskets from the arsenalsnothing was lacking in it.

At four in the morning I was waked by detonations as if the British fleet were bombarding the city, caused, I was afterwards told, by dynamite rockets.

With their music mingled the regular detonations of the Presidio cannon.

Thinking and hoping that some of the men might still be alive, he ordered cannon and guns to be fired, that the noise of these formidable detonations echoing amongst the mountains and along the coasts might serve as a signal of his arrival to any of our men who might be hidden among the islanders or among wild beasts.