Up went his tail, stiff and erect, and with a series of frightful
roars he bore down upon the Tarmangani at the speed of an express train.
There were days when all the air was vexed with
roars and squalls of ferocity and agony from the arena, until the last animal in the cages was excited and ill at ease.
She feared not more for herself than for the three men whom she knew to be wandering in the abysmal depths of the savage jungle, from which she now heard issuing the almost incessant shrieks and
roars, barkings and growlings of its terrifying and fearsome denizens as they sought their prey.
Then commenced a bombardment which brought forth earthshaking
roars from Numa.
"Mint-julep"
roars one of the barmen; "Claret sangaree!" shouts another; "Cocktail!" "Brandy-smash!" "Real mint-julep in the new style!" All these cries intermingled produced a bewildering and deafening hubbub.
'Freedom' ye all
roar most eagerly: but I have unlearned the belief in
The lion ran first, and as he came he
roared; then followed the lioness, but she did not
roar, for in her mouth was the cub that Umslopogaas had assegaied in the cave.
Let him give me the word of command, and I'll fight the whole Parliament House single-handed, or set a lighted torch to the King's Throne itself!' With that, he smote Mr Tappertit on the back, with such violence that his little body seemed to shrink into a mere nothing; and
roared again until the very foundlings near at hand were startled in their beds.
Far up in the mountains he heard a lion
roar. How much safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men.
Thus there is another gale in my memory, a thing of endless, deep, humming
roar, moonlight, and a spoken sentence.
It was a relief to perceive at last from whence came some of these noises which had been
roared into his ears.
Just as he spoke there came from the forest a terrible
roar, and the next moment a great Lion bounded into the road.