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1. Johnny bounced down the stairs of his house two at a time, landing on the main floor with a loud thump that took him into a slide toward the kitchen
2. It was a gentle thump against the hull, not painful at all
3. Abruptly, he gave the table such a thump the bottles rattled and one clattered and rolled onto the floor
4. The herd of elephants goes back up the stairs – must try to find a tactful way of suggesting to Ben that he could thump a little less heavily
5. and the thump of whatever music the kids listened to these days
6. crashing thump sent her tumbling to the ground in a
7. shock and landed with a thump on the ground
8. out over the hedge and crashed with a thump into
9. clang, and a thump, the door finally closed and was
10. Tyres thump on tarmac, leaving minute traces of themselves on the white lines that mark out road junctions
11. He walked, straight to the passenger side and with a thump on the door shouted
12. There was a loud thump but nothing more
13. There was a loud thump at the top of the stairs and then several smaller
14. Every thump of the elf's staff on the cobblestones made his head throb
15. He staggered about for a second or so and then sat down with a thump
16. A LOUD THUMP on the deck
17. Danny withdrew from the tree-net and both he and Ben landed simultaneously with a gut-wrenching thump into their respective dog’s bodies half a second later
18. The ern came hard, and by the time the third attack from the archers had been laid, there was a great thump upon the wooden walls
19. The shore was coming closer and everything was deadly quite as we chugged in towards it the lads all wrapped up now in their own world their own personal thoughts, then all of a sudden we could hear the crack thump of bullets passing by us as we came in closer
20. Russell slammed into his room, not caring the echoing thump of the door probably made over a dozen Arrows turn in their beds
21. ” The Turks heard us as well and opened up with a machine gun I felt a thump in my thigh and one in my shoulder like someone had punched me and then I was face down in the scrub and the pain and burning started
22. These were the ones that back in camp would miss breakfast for an extra half hour in bed but not here and as we handed our mess tins over to be filled we could hear the crump thump of shells on the wind again
23. We breakfasted in the morning and then started our steady march up to the front line as we got closer we could hear the crump thump of shells and trench-mortars and we also fancied that we could hear the rattle of machine gun fire
24. 'For good,' she proclaimed and gave Doc a resounding thump on the shoulder
25. his chest and heaved herself off him to thump away across the floor
26. bed, with a thump that reverberated down to the study below
27. The front door opened with a thump, wind driving it hard against the wall as Dad came in
28. He felt a lump in his throat and was surprised by his heart’s powerful thump in his chest
29. His heartbeat raced and its echoing thump roared in his ears
30. Her knee hit the solid chunk of wood with a nauseating thump
31. Thump! Thump! Thump! What was that noise? My head was aching, I had no idea what
32. KaWhump! Thump! That question was answered anyway,
33. Thump!, Thump!…the car had hit a new stretch of thumps! I had no idea what that
34. meant, but that last thump had caused me to lose my grip on the crowbar
35. The door slammed in Alex’s face and he heard the thump of bare feet on the inside staircase as his friend, weighing in at almost twenty stones, headed back to his bedroom
36. It bounced away as if it had struck a stone wall and landed on the plush carpet with a soft thump
37. Dawn closed the bonnet with a thump and turned to Sheena, who was still staring off into the trees
38. Soffen lifted her head and studied the small bedraggled stranger with a critical stare, but the effort proved too much for her, and she dropped her head back with a thump that made the old badger wince
39. All eyes were watching me as I put my things on my desk with a thump, if it was too loud, well then that was just too bad
40. He landed heavily, with a thump that forced the last of his breath from his lungs, but it shook some sense into him and his panic subsided a little
41. We heard the rhythmic thump of a large paddle
42. I felt my heart begin to thump with anxiety and silently took a deep breath and said a quick prayer
43. Then she flicked her head sharply, as though trying to dislodge some annoying insect, and this movement caused the Talisman to swing outwards in a shallow arc, landing on her head with a soft thump
44. He had slithered down the wall from the vent tunnel at an alarming rate, slamming into the ground with a breath-taking thump that had knocked him unconscious again
45. Stumbling backwards I tripped over my walking stick, landing on the ground with a painful thump
46. His speed was slow, but the thump of the car hitting something was loud and he felt his passenger wheel run over whatever it was
47. As the vehicle slammed into us I was thrown forwards and upwards, landing on the lorry's roof with a thump that knocked the breath from my body
48. The car-wash brushes sprang into life, swinging onto the side of the car with a soft thump, quickly gathering speed as they moved down the side of the car towards me
49. Altaf sat down on the settee with a thump and lent forward, head in his hands
50. The man moved around behind her chair, and she heard the bat thump to the carpet
1. It resisted, and he held on to the bulkhead straps and kicked at it with one heel until Chief Horcheese thumped it once with her artificial fist and a few hundred kilograms of force
2. My heart thumped against the thin, pale skin that barely seemed to cover my ribs
3. A popular beat hit thumped
4. Briz thumped the table to emphasise his viewpoint
5. Soissons thumped the table with his
6. thumped the table with his fist
7. Harold was thumped soundly upon his back and his hands were again shaken vigorously by both Harry and Mr
8. Morton, with the help of two kilo's of lead strapped to his wood, thumped his ball high in the air landing on a hillock where Fizzicist was hiding
9. Their chests thumped as they pulled each other close
10. She thumped her chest in full view, and then left
11. Ravena added, “And with the ancient text's description of it sitting right here in his own notes!” she thumped her hand on the page
12. "I promise, Joss,” I said softly, calming down a little, though my heart still thumped against my chest
13. Chris’ feet thumped against the rock, barely a centimetre clear of the precipice
14. ” I then realised something as boots thumped up the stairs
15. It was then I told him about me and Helen getting engaged he thumped me on the back and said
16. She squeezed his hand and his heart thumped with affection
17. I led back exhausted and my head thumped from the pain like a blacksmiths anvil being struck
18. Raven’s heart thumped and claustrophobia closed in on him
19. Each man dropped his paperwork, stood, and thumped a palm to his chest in salute
20. The gun’s recoil thumped the butt into Dawn’s shoulder but she hardly felt a thing, pumping a new cartridge into the chamber, training the sights on another cat and firing again
21. Jaw set, Dunn thumped on the front wall
22. Pulling my head back in I thumped Uncle Hobart's shoulder
23. In a temper, I thumped the keypad, snatching my hand away as the clear plastic cover snapped closed
24. Troy thumped the palm of his hand against the latches, turning them free
25. The door thumped again, louder this time, moving the bed and wardrobe a couple of millimetres into the room
26. “Stop! Stop!” and with that she thumped the dashboard
27. He thumped the butt of his stick three times, and then waved his arm around at them ending with pointing at himself as he repeated his grunting and thumping gestures
28. He opened his eyes and thumped the door with his fist
29. The dude wearing the black Cazals and black Kangol got uncomfortably close to me, squared up and said, “Yo Boy-yee, what you be about?!” He had said it in this demonstratively threatening tone and demeanor, as he poked his index finger hard into my NSR nameplate which had thumped my chest
30. Dacian’s eyes went wide, and his heart thumped in his ears, as if it were a
31. thumped his fists eagerly against the glass
32. Thirty minutes later, the rotors thumped overhead and the chopper lifted off
33. As I thumped more brutally, I re-evaluated why I was here again
34. The bus full of tired contestants and crew thumped and
35. As he was about to grab Parker, an Army officer in a Tiger suit stepped in front of him and thumped a thick hand flat against the civilian's chest
36. Shields that had been placed protectively over their heads waved erratically and spears held at the ready thumped on the ground in a chorus of unsteady ascent
37. One thumped accidentally on the floor causing a muffled sleep-soaked voice from the other side of the locker to give a short cry
38. erratically and spears held at the ready thumped on the ground in a chorus of unsteady ascent
39. Her heart thumped fast
40. He rushed in and thumped Stephen and Justin happily on the back
41. " She thumped a box onto the table
42. It was too late for Tress to stop now, she was committed but it all seemed to happen in slow motion as her heart thumped heavily in her chest
43. He thumped a satchel against the hull of the ship
44. The rain fell steadily as Zoe thumped the ground in frustration
45. " Thanasi thumped his chest and then grinned at the effect it had on Zoe, who just laughed at him
46. “Of course it worked, you crazy kid!” Bes thumped his hairy chest, and
47. The music thumped - insistent
48. Jon thumped one of the noose ropes with the side of his hand, making Scumble"s eyes pop
49. "No!" Slinks thumped the machine and it came back on
50. Reins cursed, shoved something over the patient‘s nose, thumped on his chest, pushed another needle into a vein, turned a dial and everyone held their breath until the surgeon stopped working and took off his gloves
1. Her heart raced, thumping against her ribs fit to split them asunder
2. of heavy shouldered travellers and of thumping cab boots,
3. thumping the arm rest, shouting
4. They were suffering from the combined effects of thumping heads, dehydration and the bile churning nerves that accompany deeds such as the one they proposed to execute that morning
5. As we skirt the woodland, a loud thumping noise attacks my ears; Sefir registers her distrust of the noise by skipping sideways across the track
6. I was in a lather of sweat and my heart was thumping louder than the music
7. ” He held up his hand and made a fist thumping his chest, “That is what we call ourselves Commander; we are the Ogatu
8. The family ate supper in tired silence, after which Helen washed up, Ken accompanied Lucy to the main road and Alan lay down on his bed with a motorbike magazine and the latest hard-ass bass lines thumping through his stereo headphones
9. thumping heads, dehydration and the bile churning nerves that
10. Peter lets us in, welcoming me with a kiss on the cheek and thumping his brother as usual
11. magazine and the latest hard-ass bass lines thumping through his
12. Little was worth risking a thumping
13. his thumping heart finally subsided he noticed a
14. In Billy’s field of vision, in the image of the world that he carries with him as he sinks onto his knees by the mortuary door, Leona waves to him from the trolley and starts to tap her left foot in time to the beat of the music that is thumping through his throbbing temples
15. break down and begin thumping the ground with his fists,
16. thumping sound that silenced the crowd into fear of fatal injury
17. ‘Absolutely!’ said the younger Guillaume, thumping
18. guilty ewe and gave it a savage thumping with his staff
19. Zarko knew what he had to do, but his heart was thumping in his chest and he had a slight tremble
20. The Praefect was lost in the murmur of the camp and the thumping and clopping hooves of the horse as it galloped away
21. Danny's heart was thumping madly and even Ben, who in times of stress tended to retreat further into himself, looked panicked
22. She didn't even look up as they strode in, thumping their noisy boots on the scattered flagstones in front of her
23. The titties, Danny noted, his heart thumping wildly within him, were very large, very round and stood straight out from her chest
24. Regardless, my heart was already thumping in my chest
25. She could hear each thumping heartbeat as she moved without stirring the air
26. Raiya got up from her chair, her heart thumping, adrenalin coursing – doubtless in futile preparation
27. Her heart was thumping against her ribs
28. From one cell there was a soft weeping and an eerie incessant thumping
29. He heard his heart, a great thumping engine in the cavern of his chest, straining against
30. Sandra gave one last frantic tug and managed to free herself, but before she could move the cat was on her, thumping into her chest, knocking her backwards against the barbed wire
31. But the position was far from comfortable, and it was a terrible ordeal to lie hour after hour, behind scanty cover, while a frontal, oblique, enfilade and cross fire was poured against the position, with seven-inch shells thumping over into the centre of the hill at intervals
32. ” She shuffled around the cell and located—by thumping her knee painfully into it—a bench set into the wall opposite the door
33. The boom of a gunshot through the door had Terry’s heart thumping in his chest and he wondered for a moment whether he’d been shot, but realised it was just the sudden rush of adrenaline
34. “That was Terry,” she whispered through dry lips, her heart still thumping at how close he’d come to falling from the rising helicopter
35. But Broshee, too shocked to move, stood rooted to the spot, her heart thumping in her chest
36. A strange, screaming, thumping, sort of sound issued from the engine compartment and I ducked as the bonnet shot high into the air, quickly followed by bits and pieces of the engine: pistons, tappets, valves and big-ends: filters, shafts, cogs and pulley-wheels, all cascading heavenwards in a shower of iridescent alloy
37. Loud thumping is still alive and the
38. “Fuck!” The single expletive was followed by the sound of thumping feet
39. His heart was thumping in his chest as though it were trying to break out
40. An asymmetrical thumping beat got chicks off
41. His heart was thumping so hard that he could feel the arteries pounding in his neck
42. What rigid anti Communists are often confused about is their belief that anything less than chest thumping and blustery calls for war means one is weak or not sufficiently anti Communist enough
43. Instantly my heart was thumping and I was running for the stairs
44. What’s happened?” I shouted, thumping down to the hall
45. They’d screamed and shouted, thumping off the sides of the vehicle as they tried to fight off the aliens
46. My heart was thumping loudly as I gently grabbed the receding doorknob and followed it inward
47. The music had a syncopated, throbbing, thumping bass-line
48. When I was woken by Rosie thumping my shoulder, there was no Singh and not a single blowfly in my mouth
49. “After you?” Raul's heart was thumping madly
50. She was just as excited, her heart thumping wildly within her chest
1. His heart thumps into busy life in his chest
2. He thumps the door once, a little act of kindness, a reminder of the tender caresses to come
3. Thump!, Thump!…the car had hit a new stretch of thumps! I had no idea what that
4. With the thumps of another volley of outgoing mortars, I smiled at the likeness of stomping the devil back down to Hell
5. Truman saw them and heard the time delayed thumps from a ridge northwest of town
6. There were a couple of thumps against the wall
7. Amar wraps his arms around George, and George thumps his back with a fist
8. A series of thumps sounded from the bedroom
9. A few seconds later, constant sonic booms are heard and felt on the ground like very loud bass thumps
10. announcements made at intervals, then a descent, a series of thumps and they were
11. I was awakened by thumps coming from down there and went to his bed, saying, “I heard noises
12. At breakfast 8 said, “The thumps you heard were caused by the staff shoring up the frame of the house because of the effect of the medical equipment
13. Heavy thumps smacked against the walls as all kinds of things were thrown at the little house
14. What vigor and resistance that of Leticia’s! What quality of scratches and thumps! Ah! But I had more vigor and much more resistance! And the quality of my scratches was overcoming fully those of her! By living with two sisters, I had become polished in the quarrelsome art common to all fraternities of finishing the discussions by force of steep punches, giving the blows in the places that better correspond, in defense of the honor, the properties or the sisters
15. Suddenly, the slightest of thumps and a black line jiggled against the white, moonlit wall
16. Even this late at night, one used to hear them peeping and cooing yet here, there was nothing but the sound of the surf and the rustling of a shore breeze through the trees, the heavier thumps of the condorlas’ feet on the sand and the flutter as they stretched their wings
17. The individual evenly spaced thumps from the missile payloads of white powder impacting the ship’s aft section could be felt the length of the ship
18. The thumps grew stronger and Will glanced between his legs, in time to see
19. Then, around 4:00 AM, a couple of thumps against the house woke me
20. They raised their thumps up sign
21. thumps, punching straight through the lovely walnut panel ing of the cars
22. The four agents stopped firing nearly at once, transformed into icy statues that then toppled down to the floor with hard thumps
23. He could hear rustling and banging sounds, and then loud thumps on the ground behind the guardhouse
24. The wolf puts back its ears, bobs its head, thumps its tail and opens its eyes wide
25. He is within a few paces of the dais when Odin thumps the black stone beneath his feet with Gungnir and shouts, “Stop
26. thumps on the stone floor
27. But between the thumps she thought
28. Then I heard a crash, several thumps, and a loud ruckus next door
29. Thumps and shouting erupted from inside the yacht
30. More thumps sounded as Andrina and Kevin stacked more of them in front of their exit, preventing their escape
31. Still the door didn’t budge, and muffled thumps continued as the boxes built up on the other side
32. As for Sancho, he went searching all over the floor for the head of the giant, and not finding it he said, "I see now that it's all enchantment in this house; for the last time, on this very spot where I am now, I got ever so many thumps without knowing who gave them to me, or being able to see anybody; and now this head is not to be seen anywhere about, though I saw it cut off with my own eyes and the blood running from the body as if from a fountain
33. I hear thumps on the roof as they settle in
34. The slow thumps were almost painful
35. He thumps the parapet
36. Something thumps again and the windowpanes tremble
37. On the inside, they dropped from the roof and landed with soft thumps on the turf of the quadrangle
38. During the passage from the wharf to the Custom House it is to be feared that Captain Mitchell was subjected to certain indignities at the hands of the soldiers—such as jerks, thumps on the neck, forcible application of the butt of a rifle to the small of his back
39. Music thumps from a ghetto blaster wedged into the crotch of a tree
40. “Where should I go?” I ask after the door thumps shut
41. Al was one with his engine, every nerve listening for weaknesses, for the thumps or squeals, hums and chattering that indicate a change that may cause a breakdown
42. He just gave me a dozen thumps, regulation allowance, and then let me go about my business: to prison, that is
43. Several violent thumps of a fist on the door followed
