In a life whose worth is told out in passages from port to port, the splash of the anchor's fall and the
thunderous rumbling of the chain are like the closing of a distinct period, of which she seems conscious with a slight deep shudder of all her frame.
It was the signal for the charge and the vocal organs were shaped for the
thunderous roar when, as lightning out of a clear sky, Sheeta, the panther, leaped suddenly into the trail between Numa and the deer.
A few days before the surrender at Appomattox a
thunderous engagement between the commands of Sheridan and Pickett was unknown to the latter commander, a mile in the rear of his own line.
The broad palms of his tail are flirted high into the air; then smiting the surface, the
thunderous concussion resounds for miles.
The Haunted Woods was full of the groans of mighty trees wrung in the tempest, and the air throbbed with the
thunderous crash of billows on the distant shore.
"Sargeant," began Jerry in his old raucous, martyred,
thunderous tones of complaint.
The Martians had but to advance into the line of fire, and instantly those motionless black forms of men, those guns glittering so darkly in the early night, would explode into a
thunderous fury of battle.
Batteries were speaking with
thunderous ora- torical effort.
Tarzan, halting upon the kopje's edge, raised his voice in the
thunderous roar of a lion.
All was silence, utter silence there, in which the throbbing of her own frightened heart seemed to her overwrought imagination to fill the ship with its
thunderous alarm.
Thunderous had been the crash of billows on the rocks, wild the white spray and spume that blew over the bar, troubled and misty and tempest-torn the erstwhile blue peace of Four Winds Harbor.
Occasionally one would raise his shrill scream or
thunderous roar in answering challenge to the savage din of the anthropoids, but none came near to investigate or attack, for the great apes, assembled in all the power of their numbers, filled the breasts of their jungle neighbors with deep respect.