A few hours won't make very much difference one way or the other to my people, but it would make a thumping lot to our friend Dr.
A few moments later, five men werethumping at his door, but feeling the resistance of the bolt, desisted.
For the shriveled witch, taking in the whole scene, had drawn himself up as nearly like the captain as possible and with one wee fist doubled up, was thumping his own little hams, an exact imitation of the man's gesture.
I do say," said Malka, unconsciously taking up the clothes-brush and thumping with it on the table to emphasize the outrage.
He choked for five minutes, Mrs. Belcovitch thumping him maternally on the back.
My heart went thumpingand I have not yet recovered my breath.
Before a word was spoken by him or by his wife; before George could still the emotion that was thumping at his heart, Margery came in with a scared face.
Few might have set about and done it so calmly as Janet, considering that she had a great fear thumping at her heart.
We heard "The Potter thumping his wet clay" and stopped and watched.
All the while the caravan, bumping and thumping with a terrific rattle, was tacking and luffing over the rolling billows of the stony roads.
The musicians struck up an appropriate air, mostly made up of the vigorous thumping of drumsticks on drumheads.
Then Dannis wasthumping his arm and the others were grinning tiredly at him and he was pulling his harness on.
She could hear Slogan and his wife, now barefooted, thumping about in the next room.
There was a thumping on the floor beneath the house.
The freshmen were shouting and thumping as if they had never heard that it was unlady-like (and incidentally too great a strain on the crowded gallery) to do so.
He glances round the apparently empty room, then he turns away and I hear him going down the passage, opening other doors, thumping at Louise's door, where the voice of a man answers him.
He stretched himself sleepily, swore and again composed himself for slumber, when the noise of a property trunk, thumping its way down the front stairs a step at a time, galvanized him into life and consciousness.
With which the speaker hurriedly vanished and soon the bumping and thumping in the hall gave cheering assurance of instructions fulfilled.
Wherever she was placed, at certain intervals, the thumping would be heard in the room.
The noise then resembled that which would be produced by a person violently thumping the upper floor with the head of an axe, five or six times in succession, jarring the house, ceasing a few minutes, and then resuming as before.
The thumping continued as before, excepting that it was not quite so loud.
Blackberry sat on the floor at her feet, and the thumping of his tail on the rug played a drumlike march in time to her heartbeats.
Irene was so excited that she declared she could feel her heartthumping under her slip-on sweater.
They say that old people do find themselves at last face to face with a solid blank wall, and stand thumping against it in vain.
It had lured him out into mid-ocean and smoothed the sea and stilled the winds and given him a singularly sympathetic comrade, and then it had turned and delivered him a thumping blow in mid-chest.
Shortly after midnight there came an obstreperous knocking and thumping at the outer door, so loud that it waked us in our beds up-stairs.
I had no more than looked to my bait and dropped in there, when I had a bite and (this time more carefully) swung out a thumping big trout that would have weighed near a pound!
Sir Hokus was sitting on a stile, polishing his armor with a pillowslip he had taken from his bed, and the Cowardly Lion was lying beside him lazily thumping his tail and making fun of the passing furniture.
I like you," said Sir Hokus, going over and thumping the Cowardly Lion approvingly on the back.
Their frowsy heads protruded from every window, and from within came drunken shouts, the thumping of feet, and the twanging of harps.
It's too much," she said, thumping her hands together.
There was a small lift which Christophe did not use, as he wanted to gain time to prepare himself for his call by going up the four flights of stairs slowly, with his legs giving and his heart thumping with his excitement.
And yet he went stubbornly on, silent, frowning, only betraying his secret wrath by occasionally thumping on his desk and making his pupils jump in their seats.
They knocked down each of the four young Tories, and gave them a thumping that they would likely remember for some time.
If you weren't a boy, I would give you a thumpingfor what you have already said.
But when the shelling was hottest there was usually work for the despatch rider--and getting away from the unhealthy area before scooting down the Annequin road was a heart-thumping job.
With my heart thumping against my ribs I opened the throttle, until I was jumping at 40 m.
Then Diamond explained how Kirby happened to be in the room, and Frank added light to the matter by telling how he came to know the thug, who had been hired to whip him once on a time, but who had received a severe thumping instead.
He pranced heavy-footedly before the other, thumping his chest.
One clenched hand was fiercely thumpinghis shoulder.
