The flaps of the mad canvas were like successive thumps of a giant's fist upon a mighty drum.

When he came thumping on his dreadful summons, here they were already set, fopped from shoes to head in the newest whim.

But once on top in the open blast of the storm and safe upon the level, I thumped with desire for a plot.

We take elaborate pains to guard our face, and get a thump in the small of the back.

"'The master, mumthe poor masterhe is dead, mumI am sure he is dead!'accompanied by vigorous thumps against the glass partition, and not very measured language on the part of the watchman from the outer office, such as'Why don't you open the door instead of making that row?' "Mrs. Ireland is not the sort of woman who, under any circumstances, would lose her presence of mind.

The Watchman's Thump at Midnight startles us in our Beds, as much as the Breaking in of a Thief.

However, his case was desperate, and although his heart was thumping within him with fear he hurried along to have the thing over as soon as possible.

His heart, however, thumped like an inexpensive clock; the cedar-tainted air in the closet grew heavier; he felt stupid, swaying as he rose.

" Harry Rattleton let his feet fall with a thump from the table on which they had been comfortably resting and turned about to stare at Merriwell, his roommate.

At once the big special officer at the little gate of wire netting came thumping down the aisle, leaned close, and prodded her shoulder with his forefinger, crying: "Wake up, there!" She awoke, startled, and a dozen laughed.

But they have been moving forward all the time, the hurtling bullets sweeping through the leafy covering, now and then thumping into the soft pine with a vicious joyousness, as if to say to each man, "The next is for you, see how well our work is done."

Next moment a shower of mud and earth and stones fell rattling and thumping about and into the trench.

He says that they were in the alley, in the act of jimmying a window, and all at once Kinney straightened up as if something had hit him and let the jimmy fall with a thump to the pavement.

Perhaps she heard it thumping under his waistcoat, where it was behaving very queerly.

It would please me to see him well thumped for having failed in my bidding.

At last, with a sigh, he poked his shirt into his trousers and thumped across the room to raise the drawn shades.

Her father, Samsón Sílych, dealt in leather mittens on the Balchug; respectable people called him Sammy, and fed him with thumps behind the ears.

He heard Mukoki thumping along behind him; ahead of him Wabi was unconsciously widening the distance between them.

We had much amusement in watching the progress of this vehicle as it bumped and thumped over the road, unconscious hitherto of the dignity of a wheeled carriage.