Strange cries arose, the bumping of sampans, the mournful caterwauling of a stringed instrument.

He jumped from the window sill and made a fuss bumping against Oliver's legs.

Long bamboo poles plied bumping along her gunwale, sticking into the air all about her, many and loose and incoordinate, like the ribs of an unfinished basket.

Martin stopped short, as if to say something, and then changed his mind, while a bumping at the pantry door attracted the attention of us all.