An electrical shock flashed through the company when the General picked up one of the biggest nuggets and threw it down with a rich, full-bodied thud.

On went the company, grimly silent now save for the snort of a horse, the champing of curbing bits and the thud of slow trampling hoofs upon the tender grass, as the west flamed to sunset.

Riding close, Beltane saw the glint of mail, raised his sword for the blow, felt a shocka searing smart, and knew himself wounded; but now she was at his stirrup, and stooping, he swung her up to the withers of his horse, and wheeling short about, spurred to a gallop; yet, as he rode, above the rush of wind and thud of hoofs, he heard a cry, hoarse and dolorous.

lève-toi, cochon!" shouted I, in the elegant terms of address which experience had taught me were the only ones that had any effect upon the stolid sensibilities of the half-breed,at the same time administering to him a kick that produced a thud and a grunt, as if actually bestowed on the unclean quadruped to which I had just likened him.

"They" From down the street came a dull, muffled thud-thud-thud-thud.

"They" From down the street came a dull, muffled thud-thud-thud-thud.

"They" From down the street came a dull, muffled thud-thud-thud-thud.

"They" From down the street came a dull, muffled thud-thud-thud-thud.

" And down the street they came, thud-thud-thud, Company G, headed for the new red-brick Armory for the building of which they had engineered everything from subscription dances and exhibition drills to turkey raffles.

" And down the street they came, thud-thud-thud, Company G, headed for the new red-brick Armory for the building of which they had engineered everything from subscription dances and exhibition drills to turkey raffles.

" And down the street they came, thud-thud-thud, Company G, headed for the new red-brick Armory for the building of which they had engineered everything from subscription dances and exhibition drills to turkey raffles.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

Thud-thud-thud-thud.

He learned what it was to rise at dawn and go thud-thud-thudding down a dirt road for endless weary miles.

He learned what it was to rise at dawn and go thud-thud-thudding down a dirt road for endless weary miles.

As she got out of bed and thud-thudded across the room on her heels to shut the window she glanced out into the quiet street.

Then she went back to the kitchen, and the thud of her iron was heard as she deftly fluted the ruffles of the crêpe blouse.

" 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.

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.