If I, working with you and having you pounding it into my head, couldn't more than half believe it.
Already the engine was pounding the air with quick, vicious snorts in the effort to get under way; the vestibule trap and door closed with a bang; the wheels were creaking.
Then he went to bed, with the storm from the sea pounding about the house, and slept serenely until Pat and Mary wondered whether he meant to get up at all.
He hesitated as the pounding on the door grew louder, then a key grated in the lock.
Rick collapsed on the stone floor, his heart pounding The others shot their flashlights into the place where he had stepped.
There was a sudden rush for horses by the braves and the scurry of pounding hoofs as they fled across the prairie.
It appears that both the mortar and pestle were then made of wood, and that the former was three feet in height; but, to speak the truth, Hesiod does not expressly say that this mortar was for the purpose of pounding corn.
At first barley was prepared only by pounding, but afterwards by grinding; and as it was more perfectly rounded by the latter method, it was distinguished from that made by pounding by the name of pearl-barley.
If under this name we comprehend all those machines, however rude, employed for pounding or grinding corn, these are of the highest antiquity.
The San Gardo swung farther to the west and with her engine pounding at every stroke, limped on toward the Mississippi.
They lay so till deliverance from the hideous spell came at last, in a vigorous pounding at the front door.
In desperation the whale would stand on its head and beat the air in terrific blows with its flukes while the sharks would merely wait till the flurry was over and then renew their steady, wearing, pounding battle.
More gravel poured down and then there came the sounds of scurrying and of hoof beats pounding on hard ground.
His heart was pounding somewhere up near his mouth and it made him feel uncomfortable.
But he ran on, sliding and tripping, his breath coming hard and his heart pounding agonizedly against his ribs.
It was a dark night, although a few stars were visible, and the Sea Gull was steaming slowly through a fairly rough sea, pounding against her port quarter.
I could hear voices, the pounding of feet behind, and I made desperate effort to outdistance my pursuers.
The pounding of my heart was like that of a trip hammer, as I listened intently for any movement.
Later he aided his wife to mount and stood looking after her as she rode away, Portlaw pounding along heavily beside her.
Whenever the Russian lines retracted before the unbearable pounding of the terrible German guns, they left only a desert for the Kaiser's men to cross.
The old women stopped pounding to lift toward us wrinkled faces that expressed fear and hate when the tiny searchlight was turned on their dim, blinking eyes.
It was that drill as well as his pounding on the rock which had so alarmed Elaine and Aunt Tabby the night before and which now had been the signal for Kennedy's excursion of discovery.
A second later the canoe crashed over the falls in a cloud of spray and pounding water.
While it seemed reasonable to suppose that the two rascals were still absent from the place, yet Matt did not want to run the risk of trouble by pounding on the door for Mrs. Hooligan.
Meanwhile, the Hawk was lurching sideways and bounding up and down in a most terrific manner, lifting the car at each leap and pounding it on the surface of the ground.
Barely had the three boys finished their part of the explanation, when the pounding of a motor came to them from the direction of the road that followed the railway track.
Featherstone said as Dave started unconsciously pounding him on the shoulder.
The German continued to glare at them out of half closed eyes, and Dave kept the taunting grin on his face though his heart was pounding like a trip hammer against his ribs.
His head ceased pounding and the dancing colored lights faded away from in front of his eyes.
To the right of him, the boy now heard the pounding of human feet.
Good Lord, how funereal we are," said Persis, "talking about sin and spasms and remorse when the flowers are blooming and the moonlight is pounding on the windows!
Meanwhile he was pounding at the door of her heart again: "Are you going to ride in Central Park to-morrow--this morning?
The method of dressing by pounding was probably not adopted.
All listened intently, and soon distinguished the steadypounding of hoofs and the rumble of wheels.
I shore wish I was on my cayuse pounding leather on th' home trail.
But the foreman, pounding ceaselessly on the other's face with his free hand, made the jaws relax and drew the weapon.
We gave the forts an awful pounding and completely smothered them.
Yes, sure enough, there was Pete pounding away on the porch.
It was after I'd got into a good first sleep when something seemed to be pounding me in a dream and I started up with wife pulling my sleeve and calling, 'There's somebody pounding away on the front stoop and yelling like mad.
Fragments of a dance measure were audible, and he returned to the pounding music, the heat, the perceptibly chlorinated perfumes and determined activity.
It was impossible to say whether his disturbance came from within or without, whether it was in his pounding blood or in the room around him.
A fist, now, was softly pounding him; and Gregory's voice threatened tears.
