I dimly remember a last flying impression of a furnace of light, then a great shock thudded through me, and I lost consciousness.

But now, on a sudden, was the flash and ring of hard smitten steel, and behold, Sir Jocelyn's sword sprang from his grasp and thudded to earth a good three yards away; whereupon the three roared amainyet

It thudded into the wood of the car over Kurt.

To his informed manipulation the dial whirled, paused, reversed, turned all but imperceptibly, while the hidden mechanism clicked, ground and thudded softly, speaking a living language to his hearing.

The heavy sabre thudded down into the grass, and he took a sudden step towards her.

Tump seemed to rise a foot or two in air, turned over, and thudded down on his shoulders in the dust.

The bullets of the Sunlanders blub-blubbed and thudded against them, but could not go through, and the men howled their delight But the dark was at hand, and Tyee, secure of success, called the bales back to the trenches.

The soldiers' feet thudded down all together upon the stones, and with the priest reciting his office the procession passed out of sight, going toward the burial ground at the back of the town.

And all the time, away up the corridor, the door of the Grey Room thudded at solemn and horrid intervals.

A shadow plunged through the air; a weight thudded on the saddle of the roan; an iron hand jerked back the reins.

The trenches were not under fire in the sense that the enemy were making a persistent effort to clear them out, but they were in the zone of fire, their range was known, and there was no telling, when that distant boom thudded across the fields, whether that particular shell might be intended for them or for somebody's house in town.

As it thudded against his canvas jacket and as he started to run three pairs of arms closed about him, and he went down in his tracks.

From the peep of day till dusk shrouded the woods, Benton's donkey puffed and groaned, axes thudded, the thin, twanging whine of the saws rose.

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.

and they came on to heart's content, steel clashed on steel and thudded on flesh and bone.

And coming to meet the outgoing cargo were long lines of unloaded goods being lined up as they arrivedhills of coal coming from England, sacks of cereal from the Black Sea, dried codfish from Newfoundland sounding like parchment skins as they thudded down on the dock, impregnating the atmosphere with their salty dust, and yellow lumber from Norway that still held a perfume of the pine woods.

The cat thudded against Ronicky's knee, screeched and disappeared below; the woman of the broom shaded her eyes and peered down the steps.

Here we heard the beat of rowlocks, the horse-hoofs of a coach thudded on the bank, and a crew of jolly young men went gliding past, with a cox shouting directions, just as I might have been doing thirty years ago!

Two big Airedales thudded up and down in greeting to their mistress.

The whip thudded softly into the socket and Dan rolled up on the driver's seat.

He saw where the next leap would bring him within its terrible grip, and he made that leap to one side instead, so that the rawhide thudded into the dust alongside his nose.

Haught thudded through an opening, and an instant later, when both he and the deer had disappeared, he shot the third time.

"I do not know you, and you will onderstan', will you not, that I can't leave you behindto talk?" As he spoke a flashing something appeared from the girl's pocket; he lifted one huge paw to beat her down; but a clenched hand, protected by a corded buckskin glove, thudded against his jaw; his knees weakened, and he sprawled upon the floor.

Through it all, behind the wall of pain, my thoughts knocked and thudded, urging me to do something.

It thudded heavily, but it brought no yelp of pain; instead, a black thunderbolt leaped from the corner and lunged down the room.