His own heart-beats sound in his ears like the thumping of a paddle.

But no sound came from within the room, and after a third and much louder thumping at the door, Allerdyke grew impatient and suspicious.

But on a less occasion, when there is no plot thumping in me, I still feel a kind of embarrassment when I ask for a book out of the general demand.

This sound was followed by a quick thumping against the ground of the steel bar, and then Wampus emerged from the tent holding a dark, squirming object on the end of the rod extended before him.

D'ye hear me?" His words fell on empty air, his wife having already sped upstairs to pacify Master Smith by a rhythmical and monotonous thumping on the back.

He could hear his own heart thumping as Wabi jumped back to the light of the door, his sheath-knife in his hand.