And do you take real pleasure in the din of all those screeching and banging and growling instruments?
The next morning the girls were awakened by the aroma of coffee and by Tom banging on the frying pan.
The last thing she remembered before Tom brought them all wide awake with a loud banging on the frying pan was the wild, untamed howl of a coyote.
Up to his knees in water, Wyllard staggered after him and made out by the mad banging that some one had already cast the peak of the boom-foresail loose.
Her banging canvas filled, she listed over, and it was evident to all of them that if the kedge started she would forthwith drive ashore.
The schooner was hove to then, and lay rolling with banging blocks and thrashing canvas on a sluggish heave of sea.
The men breathed more easily as they jumped for the sheets, and with a great banging and thrashing of sailcloth the vessel shot up to windward, and turned as on a pivot.
A fast freight, a huge general produce train came down the track, with one of the new big locomotives hauling it, and when the cars went banging by above us we could hardly hold on to the bridge.
There was mad confusion, and a frantic banging of canvas as the schooner came up beam to the wind, with her rent mainsail flogging itself to tatters.
At such times you may see and hear groups of benevolent and public-spirited men and women banging gongs, clashing cymbals, and drubbing drums for hours together.
At that the bearers double with it into the street, the people within and without beat the air with swords, sticks, or anything that comes to hand, while others assist in the cure by banging away at drums and gongs.
When she left the helm the boat shot up into the wind, with the long boom banging to and fro and the spray flying across her.
That to me would mean that heaven is some type of polluted hellhole a million times worse than Bangkok with overcrowding so that you can't turn around without banging into someone.
It must have been fifteen minutes later that, returning from an investigation of the banging blind, I ran into Rollins stealing surreptitiously to the May Girl's door.
Two miles farther back the heavies are banging away over our heads.
From all the bangingnoise Tommy must be strafing Fritz good and plenty.
Sir Thomas, banging a swing-door, behind him, and coming heavy-footed through the hall.
The driver, having rung the bell, now stands banging his arms, each one against the opposite shoulder, in the rough endeavour to restore circulation.
The Rebbitzin's broom was heardbanging viciously in the passage.
Tom was banging away with his gavel, but he managed to make his voice heard above the tumult.
Then Jerry fanned and Dutch got out on an almost impossible foul that Stoddard grabbed, banging up against the grand stand to do it.
Again the cries; again the banging of the gavel, and at last Tom succeeded in producing quiet.
Bindle regarded his wife with approval as she returned from banging the door after him.
The utterance of the last word synchronised with the banging of the door itself.
There was an ominous silence on deck succeeding his words, then a murmur of voices and the banging down of a hatch.
Even as the man spoke, footsteps were heard, and then there was a sharp sound like the banging of the top of the hatch with a capstan bar, followed by a fierce shout delivered in a threatening way.
Uncle Dick; and I darted in with some of the papers, followed by the rest, Uncle Jack banging to the door.
He looked longingly across the bathroom at the racks of towels on the other side, but finally, as the banging stopped and a feminine voice began yelling, "Hey, Riggy!
A banging on the inner door downstairs some fifteen minutes later reminded him of the force with which he had slammed it in his hurry to reach the uncontaminated air of the front room.
As the bangingof the trees died down my own duller tympana registered a new vibration--and yet not quite new--something that I had heard very recently.
The only sound was the banging of the wind-wrenched trees against the house and the nearing mutter of the thunder in the north.
Ranga's foreshortened bulk was making a blurred blot against the blue-green lightning flash playing across the rear bedroom window as I turned to answer a heavy banging at the front door.
I didn't mind a bit of slap-banging off the point, did I?
The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was bangingto and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.
The banging of the outer door to the kitchen caused him to jump ever so slightly and to cast a glance of inquiry at Annie, who altered her original course and moved toward the sitting-room door.
At daybreak next morning the loud banging at the door, and the notes of the driver's bugle outside, warned us that the coach was ready to start; it seemed that five minutes had not elapsed since we fell asleep, we were so tired.
Permission was granted, and, in less time than it takes to tell it, fifteen or twenty of the diamond seekers were hard at work banging at the coal, and straining their eyes in vain for the diamonds which seemed so easy to find.
