and we heard the chug of a motor boat quite a long way off.

Bullets from some firing line chugged into the wall; the room was obscured by smoke, noisy with the sharp report of guns.

The river is like a slow-moving artery that expresses Goa the rusting, elderly ferries of the River Navigation Department chug across the gap with a ponderous regularity, and in doing so determine the schedules of legions of Goans who live within a short bus ride of the water 'aparanta' tends not to respect time-pieces worn on one's wrist.

As they chugged out of the farm-yard gate and on to the rough road, Peggy's thoughts kept time to the rhythmic pulsations of the motor: "A-twenty-dollar-bill-with-a-red-round-O. A-twenty-dollar-bill-with-a-red-round-O." CHAPTER VIII.

The Arabs' spirits rose as we chugged toward their savage hills.

Somewhere a winch rattled drowsily and weary tackle whined; more near at hand, funnels were snoring and pumps chugging with a constant, monotonous noise of splashing.

Being a quart bottle and reasonably full of liquid, the bartender's chin came down with a chug on the bar.