Only as the boat hovered for a moment at the face of the cliff could the exploring party hear, far within, the hollow boom that told of breakers on a distant, subterranean beach.

The gray, boulder-chafed river was singing loudly through the valley, but above its massy roar I heard the booming of a waterfall, which drew me eagerly on; and just as I emerged from the tangled groves and brier-thickets at the head of the valley, the main fork of the river came in sight, falling fresh from its glacier fountains in a snowy cascade, between granite walls 2000 feet high.

"Vhen I sees you mit dose tumblers, I gives some big bang-bang, boom-boom, hey?"

Explosion followed explosion, some of them coming in hollow, reverberating booms, others sounding as if in mid-air.

"Dolly 'ud like to buy a boom," she said, at last, "a great, big boom; and gan-pa 'ill smoke his pipe again to-night.

Well, lots of them were fired off, and then Buddy Pigg got some empty bags, and his soldiers blew them up, and they cracked 'em down, and they went off "Boom!

And under that sullen mantle the dark flames of the petrol still glowed; to the right, as we looked back, was the blazing skeleton of the ship, and on the left Antwerp itself, the rich, old, beautiful, comfortable city, all but hidden, and now and then sending forth the boom of an exploding shell like a groan.

It was Colonel George Harvey, then editor of Harper's Weekly, who had started the boom to make Woodrow Wilson President.

Despair began to get the upper hand, when I caught the dull boom of a pistol-shot, and it so startled me that I could not decide the direction it came from.

Outside was the vague, indefinable night drone of a city asleep, unbroken by any sound that was distinguishable, until finally there came the distant boom of a clock.

30 As his heroic worth struck envy dumb, Who took the Dutchman, and who cut the boom.

You may often detect a yet smoother and darker water, separated from the rest as if by an invisible cobweb, boom of the water nymphs, resting on it.

There was a tremendous roar, drowning for a moment even the boom of the cannon.

I instinctively threw myself into the bottom of the boat to escape the boom.

However, at that moment the bell rang, and exclaiming, 'Anither boom in trade!'

"Moffitt had hauled up the courses and squared the main yard, as much to make a diversion as anything else, although the men thought it was to keep old Sadler from boarding us; and as they rushed up on deck they filled the booms; lee rigging, hammocknetting and every available spot from which a sight of the old fellow could be had.

The noises from the square belowthe clink of the donkey's hoofs upon the pavement as they struggled up the steep alley laden with charcoal; the screams of childrenthe clamor of women's voices moving to and fro with their wooden shoesand the boom of the church-bells sounding overhead for morning masscame to him as in a dream.

I had just time to grasp this boom, when we were hurried into the Cascades; in these I was instantly buried, and nearly suffocated.

"'Tis the brigantine, gybing his main-boom!

" "Haul the spanker-boom to windward," shouted the pilot; "lower away the boats, and tow the ship's head roundclear away the stream anchoraft gib-sheetboard main tack, again.

You are having a little boom here now: give it the top boom price, if you like.

The bird hit, "boom", jest like that.

Its introduction inaugurated a new boom in the use of the telephone.

Benton left to make his delivery to the mill company, the great boom of logs gliding slowly along in the wake of a tug, the Chickamin in attendance.

I do not like these so-called booms, however, and so I left to begin somewhere else.