He could never get it to hold, and I remember as an undertone to Pulz's reading, the rumble of strange, exasperated oaths.

Then Terrier swung languidly and all was quiet but for the monotonous rumble in the background.

Then stillnessof a suddenand the ground trembles with a far-off throbbing as a convoy of motor lorries approaching thunders past us, rumbling over the bridge and out into the darkness, driving for supplies.

Habited in an extraordinary quantity of stiff and lustrous black brocade, with enhancements, of every description, that twinkled and tinkled, that rustled and rumbled with her least movement, she presented a huge, hideous, pleasant face, a featureless desert in a remote quarter of which the disproportionately small eyes might have figured a pair of rash adventurers all but buried in the sand.

His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument: sometimes it rumbled like the thunder; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music.

There would be a moment of bewilderment, and then a lifeless rumble down the one general precipice to the glacier below.

Had to spit on my quarter-deck, did you!" Rumble from the mate.

At the moment, with military motor-trucks rumbling past outside, soldiers coming and going in the court and tramping about in the room overheadan extension of the adjoining houseone scarcely thought of trying to find out.

Then they send thunder rumbling through our mountains, and the sound is as soft to them as a whisper to us.

The profane world suspects nothing; it passes unconcernedly by without dreaming that tempests are rumbling by its side.

The first is a small party of Americans, of which the writer was one, seated with their families in ancient post-chaises rumbling along the tiresome road from Enzeli, the Persian port on the Caspian Sea, toward Teheran.

Under the water it rumbled on, Still louder and more dread: It reached the ship, it split the bay; The ship went down like lead.

At one o'clock the night express from Moscow to St. Petersburg, with its huge American locomotive, rumbled into the station.

For one time as I was at the entrance of my cave, there happened such a dreadful earthquake, that not only the roof of the cave came rumbling about my ears, but the posts seemed to crack terribly at the same time.

Pretty soon he was gone and our colonel was gone, and nearly everybody else was gone too; Companies of infantry and cavalry fell in and moved off, and a belated battery of field artillery rumbled out of sight up the twisting main street.

It was near twelve o'clock, no sounds were audible except the muffled wailing of the wintry winds, piping high among the roofs and chimneys, or rumbling at intervals, in under gusts, through the narrow channels of the street.

Meanwhile I wonder at so proud a back, Whilst, the empty guts loud rumbling for long lack, The belly envieth the back's bright glee, And murmurs at such inequality.

It was during the quieter hours when the place rumbled to snores that Folsom yielded to his desire to write his wife, a desire which had been growing steadily.

Ponderous lorries rumbled across a bridge, indistinct figures moved and shouted on the pierhead, and men in wet oilskins splashed about Terrier's deck.

They passed along the old Appian Way over pavements that had rumbled under the chariot-wheels of the emperors and nobles of a by-gone age, while along their way, glooming up against the clear of the sky, were vast shadowy piles,the tombs of the dead of other days.

The ship has, so to speak, in its belly, an imprisoned thunderstorm, striving to escape; something like a thunderbolt rumbling above an earthquake.

"Come up to the house with me," said Mr. Wing presently, "and I'll show youHello, what's this?" A creaking rumble behind them made them start and turn around, and a singular sight greeted their eyes.

A light warm air, reeking like the steam from a cook-shop, breathed in her face, while a low roll of thunder, nearly lost in the noise of wheels, growled and rumbled among the distant Surrey hills.

As soon as it left Monval station on its way to Janville, it gave token of its coming, but so faintly that only a practised ear could distinguish its rumble amid the other sounds rising from the country side.

" IV The steam-car was rumbling after them down Duck Bank.