The wind howled, hummed, whistled, with sudden booming gusts that rattled the doors and shutters in the vicious patter of sprays.
The whole loftiness of the place, booming hollow to the great voice of the wind, swayed at the top like a tree, would go over bodily, as if borne down this way and that by the tremendous blasts.
From somewhere ahead came the booming of guns, and now and then he saw bursts of smoke above the trenches a few miles away.
The neighbourhood was quiet; the only sound was the booming of guns far away.
Burton afterwards said it was like the booming of a buzzard.
The wind shrieked in the treetops back from the shore, and in the lulls the girls could hear the breakers booming on the rocks outside the cove.
They lay and listened, and shivered as the booming voice of the wind grew in volume, and the water seemed to drive farther and farther up the beaches.
He settled all their business, and he did it very well, So everything went booming like a blessed wedding bell; Eleven lovely feminines attended to his wants, And a guard of honour followed him to all his usual haunts.
I will pass to later ages, when all Gloryville, you bet, Found itself extreme encumbered with an extra booming debt.
Even while he spoke, from these undertones of sound there swelled suddenly a great booming like a battery of cannon.
To both of them the cessation of alarm was as yet strange and almost incomprehensible, and the sudden silence after so many months lived amongst the booming of cannon had even a disquieting effect.
The college bell struck eleven, the sound booming out in the silence of the night on their listening ears; and with that sound, Hamish grew alarmed.
A keen wind, blowing from the east, was booming through the streets of Helstonleigh, striking pitilessly the eyes and cheeks of the wayfarers, cutting thin forms nearly in two, and taking stout ones off their legs.
The air was filled with the deep-throated booming of heavy guns, the bursting of high-explosive shells and of shrapnel.
Instead of a Marconi message, there came the distant booming of British 4-inch guns, mingling with the sound of the drums as the bands on the German cruisers played "Der Wacht am Rhein.
Mark Redisham and Lieutenant Ingoldsby, tearing in their motor-car along the deserted highroad, had heard the booming of heavy guns out at sea.
But very soon the loud, insistent booming convinced him that the guns were heavier than those of the Kingfisher, and that some sort of naval engagement was going on out there beyond the curtain of sea mist.
They wait, intent on the solemnity and the significance of that vast and heavy booming against which they are for the moment imprisoned.
There was no life, no sound save the booming of the motors and the whip of the wind screaming past the uncontrolled air titan.
Then, suddenly, the boomingof the main motor stopped.
The only sounds that come plainly to their ears are the booming of the heavy tide on the rocks, and the sweep of the night wind through the cypress trees.
The sunset gun is just booming over the African hills as the steamer drops anchor off the wonderful city where the French have gained a foothold and seem determined to stay.
The great bell of the Cathedral was booming out the hour of two a.
The roar of the tempest still continued, and the booming of the guns.
The booming of the guns and the peals of thunder made sleep impossible.
The booming plunge of the tideless sea, breaking upon the rocks below, quivered in the quiet air.
The booming of alarm guns had roused the country; every valley was pouring out its yeomanry.
On the same evening there was a great booming of cannon, with clouds of smoke, from the shipping at anchor at Staten Island.
The volleying of musketry and the booming of cannon at early dawn, had told of the fighting that had commenced.
In the morning of the 27th, which was Sunday, the heavy booming of cannon was heard from a distance seemingly in the direction of Fort Washington.
They had scarcely entered when the booming of cannon was heard from down the river.
The booming of cannon at a distance indicated that the attack so much desired had commenced, and caused him to quicken his march.
He had proceeded but a few miles when alarm guns, booming through the night air, and the clang of village bells, showed that the news of his approach was travelling before him, and the people were rising.
On the booming of that heavy gun, lights sprang up from hill to hill along the different ranges of heights; the country was aroused, and the yeomanry, hastily armed, hurried to their gathering places.
By sunrise, however, there was thebooming of cannon, like the rumbling of distant thunder, in the direction of Princeton.
Outside, everything was perfectly quiet, but inside a distant door seemed to have been opened down in some cellar, and a draught was blowing up with a moaning, booming sound.
Adare's voice came boomingthrough the thick panels in reply to Philip's assurance that he was getting up.
The voice was booming in the hall again, calling her name, and in a moment Philip was on his feet raising Josephine to him.
It was different now--filled with the old cheer and booming hopefulness, and Philip smiled as he thought how this stricken giant of the wilderness was rising out of his own grief to comfort Josephine and him.
He burst into a big booming peal of honest amusement, an infectious laugh which brought instant peace.
For a time they were lost in the dreams of what might have been, when they were disturbed by the big booming laugh of Colonel Ryan.
Mr. Dale," he greeted the manufacturer in a big booming voice, "I am glad to welcome you to the Home.
The booming of the breakers sounded close behind me.
She was afraid to be alone in that dark place, with the hollow booming of wind and waves echoing round her; but I told her sternly that Dot and Flossy would be drowned and then she let me go.
The heavy boomingof the sea and the wind together drowned our voices.
The tidal changes are carefully watched, and it is not an unusual occurrence to hear the solemn gun booming through the air as a warning to the inhabitants to block and barricade their cellars and kitchens against the rush of waters.
Afar off we hear the booming and occasional squeal of the real Fair.
At four o'clock in the morning, a sudden angry booming in the river proclaimed that the British had discovered the boats then crossing.
Two natives, passing, heard the booming report and ran in to see what had caused it.
Thy silence and the fairness of thy face Are present with me in the booming streets.
He could hear deep-voiced Taylor John go striding through his singing comrades in the intricacies of the Treble Bob Triples, and yet there was another voice in Westray's ears that made itself heard even above the booming of the tenor bell.
Even Jonathan Witchcott, for all he sat on the very front bench where anybody could see with half an eye that the singing master was plagued and shamefaced, let out his booming bass with all his might and main.
There was repetition of calls and figures and a final booming from the indefatigable caller: "Meet your partners and promenade home.
