For a moment the quiet voice stopped, so that the gentle cracking of the burning logs could alone be heard above the heavy thud of the girl's heart, which to her ears sounded like thunder of the surf at dawn.
I heard the roar of the wind, observed beyond the framing door the world aswirl and white; but I felt no laboring heave, caught no thud and swish of water.
I sprang aft: but in the roar of wind and swish and thud of sea could not hear him.
The thud of the heavy boom as it swung across and brought up with a violent jerk, had the effect of making Old Garge emerge from the cuddy in a state of nautical profanity.
Presently a violent thud caused the already trembling fire-control platform to shake to such an extent that Sefton quite thought the whole concern was about to tumble over the side.
The hull echoed to the clanging of the artificers' hammers and the dull thud of the caulkers' mallets as the undaunted and tireless men proceeded with the work of stopping leaks.
At the critical moment he heard the thud of the propellers of the swiftly-moving patrol-boat.
In an instant they heard the thud and felt the jar of lead in the thin boards against which they huddled.
There ensued another breathless instant wherein she heard the thud of dice, then followed the shout of triumph that told what the spots revealed.
With the first impact overhead the men poured forth from their quarters armed and bristling, to be greeted by a volley of gunshots, the thud of bullets, and the dwindling whine of spent lead.
Sanderson could hear his feet thud faintly on the sand outside.
The movement saved his life, for his feet had hardly struck the ground when he heard the thud of a rifle bullet, the sharp crash of the weapon, and saw the leaden missile rip the leather on the cantle of the saddle.
A minute passed; suddenly came the soft thudas of something falling.
The roaring flames shot up instantly, and within a quarter of an hour the glowing roof sank down with a thud between the blazing walls.
As he sprang down to the roof of the house he had ascended at, he heard his pursuer fall with a heavy thud on the hard mason-work.
When, however, he entered the cowl the floor gave way almost noiselessly beneath him, and he fell through nearly twenty feet of space, with a thud on what seemed to be a pile of tumbled clothing.
I don't know who was right, but with the sea murmuring just outside the windows and coming down every now and then with a great thud on the little beach at the end of the lawn, I preferred to believe in the old whaler theory.
It fell with a thud in the middle of our table and twenty-four eager hands shot out to seize it.
We could see the glittering steel of the bayonets now, could almost look down the barrels of the muskets, when there came a blinding flash, the thud of falling bodies, and hoarse shrieks of pain.
So urging our jaded beasts to a spurt, we quickened the pace, while now and again a groan and a thud told that a bullet had found its mark.
I heard the tinkling thud of it down on the rocks.
As he drew nearer, he caught the thudof moccasined feet beating time upon a boarded floor, and snatches of the tune which the violin was playing.
From the terrace can be heard the dull thud of distant cannon; the fighting is at Warrem, thirty kilometres from here.
And because of this God-given love of youth which was causing her heart to thud and the blood to race through her veins, she did not withdraw her hands when he held and kissed them and pressed his forehead upon them.
When the blows came again they were different; one heavy, ponderous thud that made the door creak and groan, with a pause between each blow.
I heard the thud of the bullet, but the savage did not show himself.
She saw Givens stagger; heard the heavy piece of cordwood thud to the floor; saw Givens plunge backward through the door to land in the big drift outside.
The bullet passed through the window to bury itself with a spiteful thud in the wall above the hearth.
Aylmer felt the shock, the agonizing effort at recovery, the final thud of the fall.
But apart from this, the thud of hoofs meeting sand or earth and the dull rap of rein or stirrup leather were all the sounds which broke the stillness.
From the uncovered hatch came the sound of wind whistling in the cordage and the swish and thud of the combers breaking past.
She sat for a time, thinking, while the thud of Jake's ax rang across the bush; and then went off to her tent with an impatient shrug.
The thud of the ax echoed across the woods, and Jim, taking care that he had a dark background, went cautiously down hill.
He heard the wind in the pine-tops and the thud of snow, shaken from the tossing branches, on the roof.
Now he could hear, too, above the roar of the engines, the thud and crash of the shells and of the guns.
Down below Doc, hearing a thud not far from him, hurried around a spur of rock in the wall, sick at heart when he saw the body.
He heard the thud of bullets in it as he propped it, and laughed.
Does not your ear catch separately the thud of her footfall every time she comes to the ground?
A dull thud told of the trap fully raised and resting upon some supporting joist.
As the trap descended with a bang, I heard the thud of his body on the stone stairs beneath.
The planking of the top also was stout enough to resist a musket ball, though the thud of shots as they struck the under side of the top at first filled me with misgiving.
While the silence that prevailed in the room, following on this startling announcement, still remained, I could hear the thud of horse's hoofs as Ralph Slingsby resumed his momentous journey towards Petersfield.
Added to the dismal noises came the dull thud of the carpenters' hammers and mallets as they drove plugs into the shot holes betwixt wind and water, while the creaking of the ship's pumps betokened that she was leaking freely.
Suddenly a heavy thud shook us from stem to stern, and our damaged mizzen mast went by the board.
For a brief space his body hung suspended on the inside of the futtock shrouds, then it slowly over-balanced and crashed with a heavy thud across a gun carriage on the deck below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thud" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
