That the thudding was the sound of oars not of knife thrusts?. From Wordnik.com. [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference
And I remember my heart kind of thudding in my ears as I gathered my nerve to speak. From Wordnik.com. [SpragueLab - A Little Studio of Scrapbook Alchemy] Reference
He sat up, heart thudding, and looked wildly around. From Wordnik.com. [Security] Reference
They both heard the faint sound of thudding footsteps. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
His hands were very dry and he felt his heart thudding. From Wordnik.com. [My Shipmate—Columbus] Reference
She heard his heavy footsteps thudding on the wooden floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Again there came the familiar thudding sound of an explosion. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
And the endless plodding, thudding, of tired feet in quest of gain. From Wordnik.com. [The Kirk on Rutgers Farm] Reference
Without a word he mounted and rode, the hoofs thudding dull on the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
After the thudding stopped, we got garbage bags and started the clean up. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Crows] Reference
He went over, back, down, like a felled tree, thudding heavily on the sand. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
A wild outward swing brought him, heart-thudding, to the next set of limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
The muffled thudding of hoofs came faintly for a minute against the sea wind. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
His fancy ran far ahead of the tramping force thudding the dust on the highway. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
And then I feel the thudding of footsteps and hear a shrill, insistent yelping. From Wordnik.com. [Once There Was a Way to Get Back Home] Reference
I shouted in fright, jumping sideways, and fell thudding against the hallway wall. From Wordnik.com. [Bootstraps] Reference
"Miss Primstinn," she called, and her voice showed no sign of the thudding of her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
From several miles in the rear there rose suddenly a thudding percussive cataract of sound. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
She slid her way into the opening and lay in the shallow hole, the lid thudding to above her. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
In the case of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, it was to add a thudding techno soundtrack. From Wordnik.com. [Romeo and Juliet] Reference
Through the darkness they strained down the track to the east, their hearts thudding almost audibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
As Sara threw open the window, a dull, thudding sound came up to them from the direction of Oldhampton. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Now and then, above the yells, could be heard the thudding of the feet of running horses on the dry ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery] Reference
He remembered how they breathed into each other and he could hear their hearts thudding against bones and time. From Wordnik.com. [Once There Was A Man] Reference
The awful, blood-chilling scream was repeated, and there was the soft thudding of cushioned paws in the bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Simon heard rocks thudding against the drawbridge at the rear of the palace, the entrance for horses and wagons. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The woman's heart kept time to the slow ticking of the clock, with a sick thudding, growing heavier every moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Then followed the gentle thudding noise of a boat as it bumped against the jetty and a voice -- Garth's voice -- calling. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
His heart was thudding heavily as he descended the stairs, preceded by one guard, followed by the other and by d'Ucello's clerk. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
And then, with a loud thudding of horses 'hoofs, the two contending armies rushed one at the other in a rising cloud of prairie dust. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
More stones flew, making thudding sounds as they struck, then sailing away, to gain velocity before they curved back, to strike again. From Wordnik.com. [The Weakling] Reference
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