In the street below the rumble of the traffic came to us muffled by the heavy plate-glass windows.
We manned the parapets and kept our ears constantly to the ground to listen for the rumble of attacks; but sometimes they burst upon us fiercely and suddenly, without warning.
Presently there came the low rumble of thunder, and a sweep of the rising wind.
Low, heavy peals of thunder began to rumble behind the cliffs.
There was a dull rumble from a hole in the ground, and the earth seemed to tremble.
Why I knew a chauffeur once that knew a cook that said----" So Jaffrey Bretton and Daphne and the little blue hound passed from the rabble of the station to the rumble of the train.
The rumble of the train is at least a pleasant sound.
Again came the heavy rumble and the solemn bass of a myriad voices; it seemed a shade nearer, she thought.
He was on the steps of the sanctuary now, still with outstretched hands and pouring words, and the mob rolled after him to the rumble of ten thousand feet and the sighing of ten thousand hearts.
A faint far-away rumble sounded as the rolling of a waggon--so faint that it might almost be an aural delusion.
He were but here, there would be no more question: the sullen waves would sink beneath His call of peace, the hazy clouds lift, the rumble die to silence.
I made it so comfortable to him that he was glad to exchange places with Betty, and get into the rumble for the remainder of the journey.
On his right hand the doorway incessantly flickered with distant lightning, and the continuous rumble of thunder went on irritatingly, like the growl of an inarticulate giant muttering fatuously.
As the feet of the two men touched the ground, a rumble came from behind it, preceded by a swift, mysterious gleam of light on the waters of the bay.
By the time the two men had reached the other bungalow, the far-off modulated rumble growled incessantly, while pale lightning in waves of cold fire flooded and ran off the island in rapid succession.
The roar of the artillery weakens, and in the distance is heard the rumble of approaching wagons.
Before them went the threatening rumble of human voices, like wind in a forest among the branches of the ancient pines; then, halting about a mile and a quarter away, they began to settle down and make fires for the night.
As she looked out the window she heard a rumble of wheels and saw the phaeton rolling Mrs. Carey down to the station.
At that instant the noonday gun boomed, and had the Royalists listened they might have heard the rumble of artillery and the rattling of cavalry surrounding them in a vast circle.
Thunder began to rumble in the distance and the wind moaned in a most melancholy way among the trees that overshadowed the ruins.
It was about a quarter of an hour later and the rumble of the approaching storm was growing nearer and nearer when Tubby arose and, picking up the two bowls, approached the guards.
The whistle was heard at the station, and the rumbleof the on-coming train.
While she looked the distant whistle of a locomotive was heard echoing back and forth about the empty land, and the rumble of an approaching train.
To her came dully a sound uncaught by Neewa--the almost unintelligible rumble of the great waterfall.
To such a lake came Neewa, guided by an unerring instinct and sense of smell sharpened by the rumble and roar of the storm of fire behind him.
The light vanished; the conservatory was filled with a thick, murky glow, and far across the fields, from the heart of the black wood, came the low rumble of thunder.
Hereabouts there was not even a rumble of wheels, or an echo of the panting breath of Paris, which one heard on the other side of the height of Montmartre.
The only sounds that reached him were faint ones from the Bois de Boulogne, the ring of a bicyclist's bell, the thud of a horse's hoofs, the rumble of carriage wheels.
I thought I heard a faint rumble a moment ago," added Hilda.
Thought I heard the faraway rumble of thunder once or twice, when it was my turn on duty; but I may have been mistaken.
At the same time Dolph himself heard the rumble of voices in the open, and understood that for some reason or other, the two men were returning to the cabin.
For he heard the sound of voices, a rumble of wheels, and the creaking and clanking of heavy metallic objects.
At which cheering report the uninitiated brightened up and passed out to listen for the rumble of the approaching train.
And the low rumble of the crowd--the growl of the primal beast--could be heard in the distance with increasing distinctness.
But the keen ear of the old man had heard the rumble of the swarming of twenty million white hornets in the North.
Mr. Smith, catching the echo of his son's rumble of dissent.
When the stage was seen in the distance a low murmur, like the threateningrumble of a coming storm, arose from the mass of men and, following this, a hush like the hush of Nature before the storm breaks.
Again the silence of the world-old hills was shattered by the rattling rumble of the heavy-tired wagon and the ring and clatter of iron-shod hoofs.
The rumble of the big turbines was stilled when she came to the fence which surrounded the rack, and old Etienne was starting away with rake and pike-pole.
In an anteroom, so far removed from the main hall that only the dull rumble of voices and the shredded echoes of the blaring music reached there, was assembled the state's oligarchy awaiting the pleasure of Colonel Symonds Dodd.
He head therumble of a man's voice, but could not catch the words.
And so Etienne Provancher found them when he came with his rake and pike-pole at six o'clock, the hour when the great turbines began to grunt and rumble in their deep pits.
The Lieutenant stood a moment longer listening to the steady roll and vibrating rumbleof the guns up in the line, and then, at a sharp birr-r-r from the telephone, turned sharply into the office.
