There was, Dame Gossip thumps to say, a general belief in this report.
Thumps in the horse is similar to hiccoughs in man although in all cases the peculiar noise is not made in the throat of the horse.
Thumps is produced by causes similar to those that produce congestion of the lungs and dilatation or palpitation of the heart, and may occur in connection with these conditions.
Suddenly he heard two familiar sounds behind him, two dull thumps that sounded less like explosions than echoes, long drawn out, and receding into infinity.
Again there sounded the two thumps of the electrical discharge.
Just before the rising sun, I had got up and put out the lamp, and was going to bed again, when there came thumps of the devil at the lower door.
Amid these reflections I fell into an uneasy slumber, which lasted till six, broken at intervals by various thumpson the deck, which seemed directed immediately at my head below.
Inside his waistcoat he wore a hare-skin, and his heart began to give rapid thumps against it.
The sermon written, the next thing was to learn it off by heart and then practise it, thumps included, until I was letter and gesture perfect.
I have that sermon still, all its red thumps unfaded, lying beside my dream book; but I am not going to inflict it on my readers.
The oldest boy's smiting with his axe came in thumps that awakened a little echo, coming from over there where the river narrowed down between high banks.
After a long time there was the shriek of the night-freight's whistle and the great rumbling of the arriving train, the grinding of brakes, shouts that sounded harshly, various loud thumps as cars were shunted off to the siding.
There are many other cases in which apparitions are seen in houses where mysterious thumps and raps occur, especially in General Campbell's experience (p.
If the apparition gave the thumps then he (or, in this instance, she) was material, and could produce effects on matter.
After a series of thumps a depression is left behind.
There was something joyous about the dull thumps when heard in the neighborhood, perhaps not to a foreign ear but to one brought up amongst customs associated with New Year holidays.
At last they hit it off, or thought they had, for the ponderous thumps of the rudder ceased entirely.
The vocalists were the Cyclops, to judge by the tremendous thumps that kept clean time to their sturdy tune.
While they were bringing wine and kickshaws, thumps began to trot about by dozens.
They will not despair, or be lost without making what small efforts they are able to obtain assistance; they know, from the violence with which the ship rises and thumps upon the Sands, that she must very speedily go to pieces.
But the wind increases in force, and the sea begins to make rapidly, the little boat gets into shallow water and thumps heavily on the edge of the sand; then the boatmen and the shipwrecked crew realize the danger they are in.
Again and again the boat thumps on the wreck as on a rock, with a shock that almost shakes the men from their hold.
The life-boat is deluged with spray, and her lights are washed out; the vessel still lifts and thumps and rolls with the force of the sea.
He wanted no other pay than the right to give the king three good thumps on the back when there was no more work for him to do.
Then I will give you three goodthumps on the back," said Aspenclog.
Another fusillade of tail thumps greeted the end of the sentence.
And Binks' quivering tail assented, with a series of thumpsagainst his basket.
The colonist thumps the Arab, the Arab the negro, and the Negro thumps the bourriquot.
At times it seemed to me as if the sleigh and all it contained would go to pieces in the terrific thumps we received.
The tea chests are covered with raw hide, which protects them, from rain and snow and from the many thumps of their journey.
The great thumpsbecame varied by musketry volleys, that were like blocks of rockboulder tumbled in the roll of a mountain torrent.
You show the thumps of an electric battery at each elbow, and expect your Goddess of lightnings not to see that she moves you.
Such thumps he lends our soldiers, that To him Achilles seems a sprat.
The two Ajaces stirr'd their stumps, And, whilst they deal most bitter thumps Amongst the Trojans, were not slack To clap their comrades on the back.
In the first place, my head aches with the various thumps it has had; in the second, I feel weak from loss of blood; and in the third, my wounds smart most amazingly.
They made some resistance, but beyond a few slashes, and two or three thumps from their oars, no harm was done.
Two good thumpsand two good smacks in the face at the one time sobered me on the instant.
It was only after Okhrim had given me a few good thumps and several resounding smacks that we encountered each other's eyes and recognized one another.
I got blows and thumps and smacks and whacks and pinches and kicks from all sides.
From the front and from the back and from all sides, he got blows and kicks and pulls and thumps and bites and scratches.
The log kept at its solemn seesaw night and day, its dull thumps resounding through the woods.
The intervals between thumpshe employed in wondering how soon the next report would come, which effectively prevented his going to sleep again.
Judging by the thumps and kicks and screams inside the closet the housekeeper's thoughts were otherwise engaged.
The Bluebird had vanished, so had Azuba, but the thumpsand jingles were real enough.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thumps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
