Just at that instant she heard a low, distant rumbling.

She took the cash and let the credit go, nor heeded rumblings of the distant drum!"

I can act the rumbling of a Wheel-barrow.

The sea was moderate, the moonlight gave a clear sight of all, and in half an hour the joyous sound of 'All right' was heard, the machinery commenced a low and regular rumbling, like the purring of a great cat, which has continued from that moment (midnight) till the present moment uninterrupted.

This canteen (with a funnel on its top like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk.

Ten thousand chariots at their speed could not have equalled the rumbling that succeeded, when the winds came booming over the lake.

A man of sanguine temperament, thoroughly contented with himself and his position, he seemed almost for the first time in his life, to have doubts, to look into the future, to feel the rumblings of an earthquake, the great dramatic cry of a nation in the throes of suffering.

Presently, as we sat there, we heardabove the rumbling of cannon wheels, the nimble clunking of hurrying hoofs and the heavy thudding of booted feet, falling and rising all in unisona new note from overhead, a combination of whir and flutter and whine.

Something in the chimney is trying to imitate that far-away rumbling.

Jone kept up his rumblings, though they sounded more distant and more deep under ground, and one day at luncheon an elderly woman, who was sitting alone at a table near us, turned to me and spoke.

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.

The bay was a sheet of foam, while the rushing of the gust resembled the dull rumbling of a thousand chariots.

The effect, when compared with the plans of intonation now so universal, is very singular; and it sometimes sounds dull and monotonouslike a long, low, rumbling of irregular voices, as if there were some quaint, oddly-humoured contention going on in every pew.

Society, in which the Southern element predominated, sneered at the tall ruler who had learned so few of its graces and insincerities, and took but little note of the thunder-clouds in the political atmosphere,the distant rumblings which heralded the approaching storm so soon to break with satanic force.

And then there arose in the far northeast a faint rumbling which rushed swiftly onward toward the southeast, growing, louder as it came, and breaking over Cedar House in a thunderous roar.

roared Giles, "cease thy rumbling, thou empty wine-butt.