Had to spit on my quarter-deck, did you!" Rumble from the mate.

He could never get it to hold, and I remember as an undertone to Pulz's reading, the rumble of strange, exasperated oaths.

As she set her foot on the first plank of the bridge she heard a little rumble of sound, and down the road came a light, two-seated vehicle, with coloured driver, and Miss Lydia Sessions taking her sister's children out for an early morning drive.

In the meantime, the rumble of the gravel train grew to a pulsating roar.

The other customers had gone, and all was quiet but for the faint rumble of traffic and soothing throb of an electric fan.

The courtroom was jammed with the men of the creeks and trails, and there was an ominous note in the rumble and grumble of their low-pitched voices, which came to his ears like the growl of the sea from deep caverns.

She was sitting so when we heard the first rumble of the distant coach-wheels.

" A rumble, half cursing and half an inarticulate snarl of brute rage, rose from the cowpunchers.

At sundown a mist crept up from the river, and through it we heard a roar of welcome and the rumble of heavy artillery.

The noise became gradually louder and louder until one could hear the rumble of heavy wheels and distinguish the sound of voices above the crowd.

I tried to sleep, but the rumble of artillery wagons and shouts of the marchers prevented.

The other men went out by and by and the room was quiet except for the rumble of traffic in the street and the rattle of an electric fan.

His keen ears could distinctly hear the roar and rumble of wild waters, just below.

In him the rumble of the storm was but just echoing into distance.

Then he appeared to forget the announcement, and pressed again on the self-starter, listening above its shrill song for the deeper rumble of the engine.

Behind were another, and another, four-and-twenty in all, flying past us with such a din and clatter, the blue-coated men clinging on to the gun and the tumbrils, the drivers cursing and cracking their whips, the manes flying, the mops and buckets clanking, and the whole air filled with the heavy rumble and the jingling of chains.

"Come up to the house with me," said Mr. Wing presently, "and I'll show youHello, what's this?" A creaking rumble behind them made them start and turn around, and a singular sight greeted their eyes.

The raucous horn of a motor-car, the panting of a motor-cycle, the rumble of a convoy of ambulances, the shock of a solitary gun, came as the only reminders of the great horror away there through the darkness.

The rumble of guns rolled sullenly now and then across the marshlands, and one knew intellectually, but not instinctively, that if one's motor-car took the wrong turning and travelled a mile or two heedlessly, sudden death would call a halt.

" There was a general gasp, and a low rumble broke out as all eyes fell on the camel.

Overhead, Lakalatcha continued to rumble and quiver and clear his throat with great showers of mud and stones.

Presently a shifting light appeared in the east, a faint rumble became perceptible and increased.

Wouldn't it sound like a part of the summer night out here?" They were bowling along the quiet country road, only the chirp of many locusts, the rumble of the wheels, and the sound of their own voices to break the stillness.

Before the boy could ask her meaning they heard the rumble of wheels outside; and Tilda, catching him by the arm, hurried him back to the doors just as a two-horse wagon rolled down to the wharf, in charge of an elderly drivera sour-visaged man in a smock-frock, with a weather-stained top hat on the back of his head, and in his hand a whip adorned with rings of polished brass.

Another century may perhaps elapse without bringing any serious disaster upon the little village; but after hearing the Kluchefskoi volcano rumble at a distance of sixty miles, and seeing the dense volumes of black vapour which it occasionally emitted, I felt entirely satisfied to give its volcanic majesty a wide berth, and wondered at the boldness of the Kamchadals in selecting such a site for their settlement.