One of our servos--" A metallic bang interrupted Gaines, a loud, incisive bangthat echoed dankly through the quiet of the chamber.
She was gone--he heard the windy bangof the street-gate.
But the traffic started before dawn, with a bang and a rattle of carts, and a bang and jingle of tram-cars over the not-distant bridge.
With a spirited bangthey close their books, and make invitation the one to the other for pipes and foreign cordials, recommending the chance of the time, and the comfort away from cold water.
It acted on them about in the same way the bang of a starting pistol might with a string of nerve-strained sprinters, anxious to leap forward, with a prize in view to the first under the tape.
Bumpus, as a lurch of the boat caused him to bang up against some of the others.
While she was dressing the following morning there came a whole-hearted bangat Delia's door, coupled with the somewhat raucous voice of Bob.
The latter swung, and Bob shot down the steps outside, and would have fallen bang on his nose but that he cannoned into a passing stranger just in time.
The whimpered apology died away into a sort of yelp of terror, and his pasty face went ashy white as he realised that he had runbang into no less formidable a person than Haldane.
Frank angrily; and he walked straight out of the room on to the landing, trying to bang the door behind him; but the man caught it, and came out quickly and quietly after him.
By Jove, when the bang came he reared straight up, dropped down again and stuck his forelegs out, reared again when I gave him the whip, every second of course telling against me.
The clerk conferred with another clerk, who went off somewhere and returned with a heavy tome, which he placed with a bang on the counter.
With anotherbang upon the table, he paced up and down, breathing deeply, and trembling with passion still unvented.
But they have, though, and banggoes a provisional hypothesis!
His head fell slowly back upon the pillow, and his great sad blue eyes seemed to look out again beyond the narrow chamber walls, in search, unceasing search, of the spangles and the butterfly of the Slap-bang of his dreams.
The buzz, the whirr, and bang of the all powerful machinery give place to several furnaces.
He gloried in having a turn-up, And was always the first in a lark, To bangand wallop the Charlies, And pommel them in the dark.
Now introduce the screw into one of the holes and with your axe bang it clear thru and out on the other side.
You don't need to cover up your trap at all unless you want to, as the weasel will walk right in to get the bait and click bang and you have your weasel hard and fast.
Don't I tell you I have spoored the sheep right bang into your kraal?
Wouldn't I just like to be going bang off to the front to have a slap at old Kreli instead of humbugging around here looking after stock.
You will come to the final bang quickly enough, and find it the finest thrill of all, but it is soon over.
This is certainly just as if an egg were to go and bang itself against a stone!
You shouldn't, I say, go andbang your head against a nail!
A Ford drove into the garage, there was a bang on the door and a voice sang out--'Let me in.
George's face showed surprise but he swung the door wide and closed it with a bang as a tall figure, leaning heavily on a cane, shuffled into the lighted hallway.
At last I heard the sound of a key moving in a lock, the bang of a door, and then came the noise of many voices as the footsteps mounted the stairs, amid which Bubbleton's was pre-eminently loud.
Adornment of all India, heave to, or I'll bang every toe off your fat fore-foot!
They were close to Varenna, and at a spot where the road is closely hemmed in by rocks on either side, when the sharp bang of a rifle was heard, and a shrill cry shouted something from the hillside, and was answered from the lake.
A low murmur of persons speaking was heard within, and suddenly the rustling sound of a female dress was followed by the bang of a door; and then Norwood entered, and, closing the door, locked it behind him.
Suddenly Miss Samstag was her coolly firm little self, the bang of authority back in her voice.
No," she said with the little bang back in her voice which steadied him again.
Immediately after there was a rang-bang let off behind us, and Tom and I were blown clean out of the gun.
The truth was, that policemen were shooting all dogs found that were without a collar and a license, and every now and then a bang and a howl somewhere would stop Satan in his tracks.
Just then there was another bangand another howl somewhere, and Satan trotted home to meet a calamity.
No wonder there had been a "bang or bump" hard enough to dent the frame of the window!
But Dundee had already seen--not only the broken light bulb but the explanation of the queer noise that Flora Miles had described hysterically over and over, as "a bang or a bump.
Then she recoils step by step, until her foot catches in the slack cord of the bronze lamp, causing the very 'bang or bump' which Flora herself describes later, for fear someone else has heard it.
And in recalling every detail of the lamp he saw what he had dismissed as of no importance at the time, in the excitement of finding that the lamp's bulb had been shattered by the "bang or bump" which Flora Miles had described.
I tell you I didn't hear anything, except Nita's coming in singing, then the powder box playing its tune, and that bang or bump I told you about.
That was the 'bang or bump' Flora Miles heard while she was hiding in the closet," he explained.
The "bang or bump" which Flora Miles had heard had been made by the knocking of the big lamp against the wall.
But after a while they begun to bang on the piano, and when she was half crazy over the noise, she looked towards the door, and there was the key poked under.
I come down to earth with such a bang as brought Felicia Hemans running.
And the stepladder shut up on me with such anotherbang as brought Sam Durny.
