" "I can't get my feet in shoesthe joints" "You thump around as much as you darn please, ma.

"Treadwell can thump me.

Then he turned on the power; the big cylinder revolved; the white paper reeled out like a long ribbon and with a rattle and thump the first copy of the Millville Daily Tribune was deposited, cut and folded, upon the table placed to receive it.

strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse^, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk^; kick, calcitrate^; butt, strike at &c (attack) 716; whip &c (punish) 972. come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.

Nonresonance^ N. thud, thump, dead sound; nonresonance^; muffled drums, cracked bell; damper; silencer.

But it was not so with me; for thou canst not imagine how my heart danced to my mouth, at the very glimpse of her; so that I was afraid the thump, thump, thumping villain, which had so lately thumped as much to no purpose, would have choked me.

But it was not so with me; for thou canst not imagine how my heart danced to my mouth, at the very glimpse of her; so that I was afraid the thump, thump, thumping villain, which had so lately thumped as much to no purpose, would have choked me.

It is always thronged in the mornings and evenings, and only deserted when the fierce heat of midday plunges the village into a lethargic silence; unbroken save where the hum of the hand-mill, or the thump of the husking-post, tells where some busy damsel or matron is grinding flour, or husking rice, in the cool shadow of her hut, for the wants of her lord and master.

The boat shot swiftly past the ghat, and came with a thump against the bank.

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.

Before the ruffian could recover he received a thump under the ear that made him see stars and sent him sprawling.

There was a dull thump, not very loud, it is true, but he feared it had reached the ears of the savages.

and finally, with a loud thump on a table, covered with such costly but valueless objects as books and plates, he cried, "What a dd fool!"

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.

" I put down the coffee-pot with a resigned thump and asked my lord, with an injured air, to please explain himself.

The clang of the engine-bell resounded through the ship; the thump of the machinery grew more rapid; the whole vessel thrilled and shook, as if eager for the attack.

But not a thump!

At nine o'clock Hermia mounted the platform (a piano box turned on its side) and began to thump the drum and cymbals.

" She began to thump him with a clenched fist up between his shoulders.

To the trap-door the captain bounded, and from above, they could hear the thump of his feet on the creaking ladder.

As he approached the stream his heart began to thump; he summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement, and ran broadside against the fence.

" Bump! Dump! Down they fell, with such a thump, Dog and Johnny in a lump!

We hadn't much mor'n got the thump of their arrival out of our ears, when who comes roaring into town but the Bengal Tiger gang, and they had four months' wages.

My heart gave a great thump; how could he have known?