I heard a scream, a scurry of feet, and then the thudding crash of his fall on the deck below and coming to the rail I leaned down and saw him lie, his mighty limbs hideously twisted and all about him men who peered and whispered.
Then through the night there came a dull, thudding sound down from the ridge above, and the trooper flung his carbine forward.
Steam was roaring from the engine, for the threshers were firing recklessly, and the thudding clank of the engine and hum of the clattering mill were almost deafening.
Not because those thudding guns in the north and east kept her wakeful--or because she had never stayed in a convent before.
He revived to pain and loneliness and burning thirst, the squalor and abomination of desolation, the louder, nearer thudding of the German drum-fire, and the dogged reply of the unweakening British guns.
Gates of wonder seemed opening on the horizon towards which he hastened, guided by the big broad arrow of the reinforced compass and the thudding of those nearing guns.
An endless procession of telegraph-boys plunged in and out between the thudding swing-doors of the vestibule.
Pale green flashes momentarily lit up the crimson and purple and tawny tracery of the round east window, and the distant thudding of the guns at the Front made an accompaniment to the sacred rite.
The children ducked quickly out of the room, thudding along softly in their felt slippers.
The noise of its soft body thudding against the glass drew Colonel Grey's attention to the fact that the blinds were not drawn.
We had swerved to the left and were thudding down the level road, when an exclamation from Mademoiselle made me turn in my saddle.
Somewhere behind came a confusion of shouts and the thudding of horses' hoofs.
The house was filled with the sound of thudding feet and shrill laughter.
The wind made hard, thudding noises as if it pounded invisible bodies in the air.
From beneath the floor came, at intervals, a regular thudding which he had never heard before, and which he now learned was a press.
Up the runway came sounds from the ring, the thudding of hoofs, followed by a child's shrill, joyous laughter.
There is a loud, quick thudding upon the door, and I am falling, falling.
The paper split into shreds; the plaster skin beneath ripped open; lathes broke in splintered ends; mortar came thudding from above and swept in a swirling drive about their feet.
He pressed a hand soft and clinging, encircled a body that trembled under his arm and in which he could feel the thudding of a suddenly leaping heart.
For perhaps half a mile the two plunged forward amidst a silence that was broken only by the dull thudding of their horses' hoofs and their own rapid breathing.
For half a mile or so the thudding hoof-beats of the two horses alone broke the silence.
Inside the store there broke loose a pandemonium of shots, yells, curses, and thudding boots.
As he halted, panting for breath, he heard the ring of hoofs on stone, then the thudding beat of running horses on soft ground.
Again the storm of arrows beat upon them clinking and thudding on the armor.
Light footed as a cat, Nigel had sprung up first, and was stooping over the Breton Squire when the powerful dwarf Raguenel brought his mace thudding down upon the exposed back of his helmet.
From the high dark buildings of the arsenal came the whirr of many wheels, the thudding of weights, and the buzz and babel of human toil.
From outside there came the dullthudding sound of heavy feet upon thick carpet.
Firing broke out again almost immediately, and bullets came thudding against the wall outside my room.
They have only twelve cartridges," was the only thing I could think of, and waited to count the shots, holding my breath for fear the thuddingof my heart would prevent my hearing them.
The thuddingof the ax ceased, and they heard Jake returning with the wood.
By and by one rose and when he began to hack at a drift-log the sharp thudding of his ax startled the loon which departed with a peal of shrieking laughter.
She heard a thudding of hoofs down the slope, then Dale's clear, strong call.
The others began to run like ostriches, thudding over the ground, spreading their wings, and with that running start launched their heavy bodies into whirring flight.
He struck Anson with thudding impact, knocking him over the rocks into the depression back of the camp-fire, and plunging after him.
Helen and Bo ate breakfast and had the camp to themselves for perhaps half an hour; then the horses came thudding down, with Dale and Roy riding bareback.
Cripple Creek," punctuated by the thudding of dancers' feet as they pounded out the time.
The last adjuration was shouted after Polly's thudding bare feet as they went flying once more down the short cut into the gulch.
The rapid thudding of hoofs behind him beat on his ears in that minute of excitement like thunder.
The strife still went on in a part of Gettysburg and cannon were thudding and rifles cracking.
Pier, or cantered back over the ridge, with a jangle of harness and thudding of hoofs, to fetch more.
The thudding of heavy guns broke the stillness, and splashes of flames lighted up the greyness of the daybreak.
Efferts had lived there too long in the stillness that rolled down to him from the hills and came together to lie flat and sluggish, thudding down on the valley land.
She stood there listening to his feetthudding up the stairs.
The persistent thudding of it there at the base of the chalk cliffs.
But, though Frosty did not mind thethudding of axes, he disliked the screeching buzz saw even more cordially than blasting rifles and shotguns.
When five deer came slowly into the meadow, Frosty's built-in ear antenna immediately picked up the thudding of their hooves and a moment later he heard their noisy chewing as they ate grass.
From all about could be heard the dull thudding of falling cocoanuts.
It was but a short time after that that Tudor tried the same trick on him, the bullets pattering about him like spiteful rain, thudding into the palm trunks, or glancing off in whining ricochets.
They joined hands and staggered up the path, with the ripe cocoanuts thudding in a monstrous rain all around them.
A constant thudding and bumping is kept up; some of the larger cones chancing to fall on old logs make the forest reëcho with the sound.
While I was busy with my own breakfast I heard the thudding fall of two or three heavy cones from a Yellow Pine near me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thudding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
