He could now plainly see the revolver flashes and could hear the thud and spang of their bullets striking.

A china clock, the centerpiece of the mantel, ticked spang into the silence, enhancing it.

Monckton flung his arm and body wildly over the paling and grabbed her with his finger ends, she gave a spang with her heels against the wall, and took a bold leap away from him into a tulip-bed ten feet distant at least: he yelled to Bartley, "To the garden;" and not losing a moment, flung his leg over the paling to catch her, with Bartley's help, in this new trap.