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

Outside of the thronged streets; away from piled up bricks and mortar; outside of the clank of machinery; the rumbling of carriages; the roar of the escape pipe; the scream of the steam whistle; the tramp, tramp of moving thousands on the stone sidewalks; away from the heated atmosphere of the city, loaded with the smoke and dust, and gasses of furnaces, and the ten thousand manufactories of villainous smells.

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.

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

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.

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

He could see the glow in her cheek and the pouting curve of her mouth as she quieted the low rumbling in Kazan's throat.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

A rumbling as of stones rolled down.

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

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.

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.

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 others understood the significance of that strange rumbling aboard the German vessel as quickly as Frank, and turning rapidly, they struck out as fast as they could.

There was a deep rumbling within his throat that Lenore knew to be profanity restrained on account of her presence.