Well, if it helped her, let her keep it thrumming on all night!
We were billeted in the houses and stables of the village, and every one came running out to look at the plane when the thrumming of the engine was heard.
There was now heard the thrumming of more motors approaching.
From behind him and sounding above the steady throbbing of the outboard came the thrumming of airplane engines.
Above the thrumming of the amphibian's motors came a sharper sound and Tim looked skyward.
And I had hope that my thrumming might add zest to the wedding to-day.
A moment more and two banjos were thrumming where one had been before, and two melodious voices were drawling the words of "Kentucky Babe.
Then, after motioning Ballard to a place by her side, she began thrumming the chords, and "Old Kentucky Home" came whispering through the room.
So little love have the people for anything that is graceful, or charming or pleasant, that the guitar-players would not dream, as they wander down the dark romantic streets at night, of thrumming their guitar for mere pleasure.
It was as if that devilish thrumming in her brain compelled her.
The windows were wide to the night, and from the river bank below there came the thrumming of some stringed instrument, which had a weird and strangely poignant throbbing, as if it voiced some hidden distress.
Although her heart was thrumming wildly, her soul on fire with a hope almost dangerous in its frenzy, she resolved not to stir from her prison until the one man she longed to see again in this world came to free her.
The thrumming of a powerful automobile could be heard through the patter of the rain.
Thrumming the harp strings with a practised hand he began in a low clear voice to sing of unselfish devotion and chivalry.
And as they swept upward in the night air they seemed to blend in strains of music sweet as the thrumming of a harp and soft as the lullaby of a mother crooning her child to sleep.
However, the town clerk did not hear any of these and other comments, but began thrumming the harp he carried, by way of a prelude.
McCoy and the mate tried it, and felt the line thrumming and vibrating savagely to the grip of the tidal stream.
A five weeks' stop-over between steamers, he decided, would satisfy the call of the primitive he felt thrumming the strings of his being.
The house quivered and vibrated, and they heard the thrumming of a mighty note of sound.
With a roar five gigantic material energy engines screamed with thrumming power.
He sat motionless, hunched, sucking at his dead pipe, listening to the thrumming of the generators.
And he was the one who had flown the serum to Mercury when the lives of ten thousand men depended upon the thrumming engines that drove the shining ship inward toward the Sun.
With Battle thrumming on this old crowd or lute, Nod danced many a staggering hornpipe and Mulgar-jig.
That dance danced, they sat quiet awhile, Battle softly, very softly, thrumming on his Juddie, gazing into the fire.
And then she realized that an arm was encircling her waist in an iron grip and that the motor was still thrumming and that someone was running around in front of the car and then peering off down the slope where they tipped so perilously.
The motor was thrumming along slowly and regularly, giving out soft little ticks like a clock.
For a gentle spirit dwells in it, That speaks through the trembling strings, And in echo to my thrumming A wonderful melody sings.
The spectators watched and listened breathlessly, fascinated by the terrible wildness of the song and the monotonous thrumming of the accompaniment.
To the regular and melancholy thrumming of the calabash, she sang her song of love.
And thrumming on the table, he joined with a fine lass in the famous line, "For Britons never will be slaves!
And now we shall endeavour to show the reader somewhat of the ludigenous process, by which the Soul, thrumming its own strings or eating its own guts, develops and increases its numbers.
Now, Khalid betakes him back to his cellar, and thrumming his lute-strings, lights up the oppressive gloom with Arabic song and music.
There was a faint thrumming hum, like wires in the wind, and streaks of cherry radiance criss-crossed in the air.
By then, the sweepers had been killed and Dan became aware of bullets thrumming past him.
Some one was thrumming on a banjo and now and then singing a few lines from a popular song.
Moving down the aisle and returning his stare was a young, black-haired, dark-eyed Jew thrumming restlessly with his fingers.
Abel had prorogued an interminable argument with the old man with the elf-locks, and now began thrumming inside the tent.
From the cottage, as Hazel went down the path, came the faint thrumming of the harp, changing as she reached the door to the air of 'The Ash Grove.
It was exceedingly faint, like the distant thrumming of a zither.
The whole world seemed thrumming with that hitherto faint quiver of sound.
I heard him thrumming on his banjo far down the road as Susie met me at the door.
A row of saringhi players squatted in the room behind the balcony, thrumming softly, so as to hide that strange hum of life which reached even here.
Yet, monotonous as ever, there was the evening cry of the muezzin and the persistent thrumming of toms-toms and saringis which evening brings to a native city.
For there had been no bangings of drums or thrumming of sutaras on Newasi's roof these three days.
That afternoon Archie had heard them testing the electric chair; he had listened to the thrumming of its current; twice, thrice, half a dozen times, they had turned it on.
