Mr. Boom and some of the strong elephants, including Tum Tum, tried to break it down, but they could not.
That was what Mr. Boom was looking for--a hole in the fence.
They were eating away, when, all of a sudden, Mr. Boom gave the signal with his trunk.
After all he was caught, and it would be hard to get away, even if he were the strongest elephant in the herd, now that Mr. Boom was gone.
Then, after a while, Mr. Boomsignaled that they were far enough off now, and need not hurry any more.
When this struck the temporary boomit parted, as if the huge cable was a piece of thread, and the logs shot past.
Louder and louder, deeper and deeper, nearer and nearer comes an awful crashing and roaring, till its echoes rebound from the crags of the Alleghanies like peals of thunder and boom of cannon.
One man rigged a boom with the aid of a cable 1,600 feet long and thick enough to hold the heaviest steamer.
Some Buffalonians made money in a land boom a dozen or so years since; then came the panic, and the boom burst with a loud report, right in Buffalo's face.
But there was one in the chamber, as in the grave, for whom the boom on the wave had no sound, and the march of the deep had no tide.
I have to hunt up a boom near there, and am taking a little crowd along for company.
When sobriety was restored it was moved, seconded, and passed that the secretary be instructed to send Shelby a copy of the boom number of the Wakefield Daily Eagle.
The iteration got on people's nerves till a commercial association was formed under the name of the Wide-a-Wakefield Club, with a motto of "Boom or Bust.
It was not until the population boom of World War II that really modern utilities were established in the county on a large scale.
First, he knew this boom was based on sound foundations.
Here there was everything required to provoke the boomhe had been warned of.
I've started this boom on the biggest fraud ever practiced.
I think it will be urgent that you visit this place shortly in interests of boom as well as the coal.
I s'pose the boom will come big when it does start?
There were undoubtedly men of substance among them, but equally surely the majority were adventurers looking to step into the arena of the coming boom and wrest a slice of fortune by hook, or, more probably, by crook.
The folk around this layout, till this coal boom started, has all been decent citizens.
Here was an evidence that the boom would be a genuine one built on the solid basis of great and lasting commercial interest.
With the railroad depot at Snake's Fall, the whole of the outlying positions of the city would boom with the rest.
Now you ken come in in town plots so that when the boom comes they'll net you that one hundred thousand dollars.
There ain't a site in Snake's worth more'n a hundred dollars to a railroad who's got to boom a place.
The boom fairly rose to a shriek, and we've been fighting to sit tight, and let the prices go up skywards.
There are theboom of rhetoric, the crack of confession, the interspersed rebel-yell of triumph, the groans of despair, the cries of victory.
The object of the fair is toboom the business of the town.
And now, there was a deep boom which rolled with sullen reverberations across the water and at the same moment almost, a column of spray shot up into the air two hundred yards to the Elsa's left.
Another distant boom and another geyser of water shot into the air, a hundred feet nearer.
She heard the deepboom of Herr Markov's voice and a reply, quiet and muffled as though at a distance.
We speculated so until the second boom sounded, and the third quickly followed.
At once the boomstarts and great cities spring into existence with busy foundries and added railway facilities.
But somehow or other the boom loses its fervor and the bright hopes are delayed.
The last glimpse he had of it was while in mad, determined rush towards himself, and he knew it was the shock of its horns against the doorn-boom that had shot him off the tree as from a catapult.
Then a stream of carriers commenced moving along the track where water had once streamed, each with a koker-boom log on his shoulders, that seemed as though it would crush him under its weight.
He saw that the buffalo had received its death wound, from the shots he had fired at it, and its struggles in the clasp of the doorn-boom were but its last throes of life.
The original beams of koker-boom had been carried across the second portage, put together as before, and brought on down the branch stream, without encountering any other interruption.
There was no wind at all, but blocks and canvas banged and thrashed furiously at every roll, until they lowered the mainsail and lashed its heavy boom to the big iron crutch astern.
If we'd any sense in us we'd square off the boom then, and leg it away across the Pacific for Vancouver.
I understand they tried to lash on a boom or something as a jury mast, but it hadn't height enough to set much forward canvas, and that being the case she wouldn't bear more than a three-reefed mainsail.
At length the other man flung him the end of the gasket, and they worked back carefully, leaving the sail lashed down, and scrambled aft to help the others who were making the big main-boom fast.
Its ponderous boom was broken, and the mainmast-head had gone, but it was not the first time the sealermen had grappled with somewhat similar difficulties, and Dampier kept his head.
One does not want a great main-boom in the northern seas, and a big mainsail needs men to handle it.
The boom of the same cannon brought to the bartizan of the great tower whereon it stood four armed men, who immediately turned their eyes towards the south.
I was in London when a new man had taken hold of the old Cornhill, and they were trying to boom it, and they had a procession of these mudturtles that reached from Charing Cross to Temple Bar.
Well, when the boom began to come he hated it awfully, and he fought it.
You can't buy a lot on that street for much less than you can buy a lot in New York--or you couldn't when the boom was on; I saw the place just when the boom was in its prime.
Dryfoos couldn't keep the boom out of has own family even.
And the state of feeling we should produce in the public mind would make a boom of perfectly unprecedented grandeur for E.
But now the cutter was ready for action, and boom went one of her guns, and the next moment a ball struck the cliff below them, splintering the rock into fragments.
There was a hollow boom beyond the entrance, and a solid shot sped in through the cove-mouth, swept across the sand, and buried itself in the cliff beyond.
The insiders are buying up now, slowly and cautiously, so as not to start any boom prematurely.
That copper must necessarily break badly, and the whole boom collapse I do not believe.
The fall of these great masts awakened a roaring swish ending in a hollow rattling, wholly unlike the crash and dull boom of a solid trunk.
But this came from Boom-boom Point, fifty yards away (an out jutting of rocks where we had secured our first giant catfish of that name).
The lightning capriciously leaped from the boom to the metal work of the wheel, shattering the whole into a thousand pieces, and splintering the rudder-head as though it had been so much glass.
Quaint in an old-fashioned costume which represented more the Civil War days than it did those of the boom times of silver mining, she seemed prettier than ever to Robert Fairchild, more girlish, more entrancing.
It meant everything for Ohadi; it meant that mining would boom now, that soon the hills would be clustered with prospectors, and that the little town would blossom as a result of possessing one of the rich silver mines of the State.
And the boom would begin as soon as the news of the agreement about the railway got abroad.
The time had come for an energetically engineered boom in de Mersch--a boomall along the line.
The boom of the great presses was rattling the window frames.
Polehampton was going to pick them up for nothing, and they were going to rise when the boom in de Mersch's began--something of the sort.
