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Example sentences for "terrible noise"

  • When it came down, it certainly made a terrible noise.

  • Illustration: A part of the wall crumbled with a terrible noise] Henry took off his coat, picked up a pruning-knife which he saw at his feet and began to cut the grapes and throw them into the vats.

  • He had scarcely uttered these words when a part of the wall crumbled away with a terrible noise and he saw in the opening a giant, brandishing an enormous cudgel.

  • About midnight, again, a terrible noise began, and out of the noise was heard a voice: 'Fate!

  • About midnight a terrible noise arose, and out of the noise a voice was heard: 'Fate!

  • About midnight a terrible noise began, and out of the noise was heard a voice: 'Fate!

  • And there came myriads of souls, making a terrible noise, which filled me with dread, lest I might look upon the Gorgon, and I hastened back to the ship.

  • There, under the foliage of a wild fig-tree, Charybdis dwells, who sucks in the dark waters of the sea three times a day and belches them forth again three times with a terrible noise.

  • Thus we passed in between the two cliffs, the one of which harbored Skylla and the other Charybdis, who, with a terrible noise, swallowed the brine of the sea and belched it out again with a roar like the mingling of fire and water.

  • The jaws closed with a terrible noise, seizing only the fire and smoke that issued from my gun, and the balls flattened against his bones without injuring them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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