Then there is a grand crashing of breaking ice and dashing of waves mingled with the low, deep booming of the avalanche.

There was a booming in his ears and he fell heavily to the road.

With a consciousness wholly disembodied she was mainly aware of a great pain that seemed to fill all the region and atmosphere, an atmosphere charged with mysterious dim green light and full of great boomings amid a crackle of smaller ones; of shouts and cheers and of a placid quaking of myriad leaves; all of which things might be things or only divers manifestations of her undefinable self.

"Yet, you must not picture me as sitting there, free from strain; for the nerve tension was so great that my heart action was a little out of normal control, the blood beat making a dull booming at times in my ears, with the result that I had the sensation that I could not hear acutely.

" Then spake the tall knight loud and fierce, his voice deep-booming within the hollow of his closed casque.