The thwack and screech of a glanced bullet that flicked a spurt of gravel into Lennon's face, warned him that the Navahos were not doing all the firing.
I do not say 'thwack our general,' but he was always good enough for him.
Why, here's he that was wont to thwackour general- Caius Marcius.
It is true that, now and then, I started and looked grave on receiving a sudden thwack from the wooden sword of Harlequin, in the course of my gambols; as it brought to mind the birch of my school-master.
He caught the jumping youth so sound a thwack as to send him flying over the low parapet of the bridge far into the bubbling brook.
Stuteley bent his bow and set an arrow upon the cord, but not so quickly as to save himself from a mighty thwack from the man's cudgel.
After a few passes Robin feinted, and, catching the other unawares, dealt him a thwack with the flat of his blade.
Why, here's he that was wont to thwack our general, Caius Marcius.
I do not say, thwack our general; but he 180 was always good enough for him.
Despite the evident hurry the cadger was in, no thwack of stick accompanied the words.
The exclamations were accompanied by the thwack of a stick over the hips of a donkey half-hidden under a pair of panniers.
This said, his broomshaft with a thwack He drove against his huckle back.
Ay, marry would I," quoth the Tanner, giving him another thwack with his staff.
It'll run down and dirt their clothes, and then Mother Pardue'll thwack 'em.
I can't prevail on him to thwackthe lads when they're over-thwart; I have to do it myself.
Then he gave him a good blow on the neck, and after that another sound thwack over the shoulders with his own sword, always as he did so continuing to mumble and murmur as though he were reading something out of his book.
In fact the secondthwack brought Sancho to the ground, and the same fate soon befell Don Quixote, whose dexterity and courage availed him nothing, for he fell at the feet of his unfortunate steed, who had not yet been able to arise.
I delivered a savage and resounding thwack upon the broad oak panel of the door, regardless of the destructiveness that might attend the effort.
Unfortunately I was obliged to release the somewhat cumbersome crowbar I had been carrying about with me, and it dropped with a sullen thwackupon my toes.
Amen to that," said I, giving him a thwack on the back that made him jump.
For, just as dawn began to break, and my head, after the labours of the night, began to nod, I was roused with a thwack betwixt my jaw and my ear which sent me backwards to the ground.
The instant his hand stopped, a long yellow yardstick came flying through the window, with no one holding it, hit him such a thwack on the shins that he roared again with the pain, and instantly vanished.
So saying, he gave him a good thwack with his yard stick, to make him continue working.
Raising the peel, he brought it down with a resounding thwackwhich sent the boy flat on his face under the table and brought Mrs. Baxter shrieking from the shop.
To enliven which weary stuff in rattled the Prince of the power of the air, and an imp that kept molesting him and buffeting him with a bladder, at each thwack of which the crowd were in ecstasies.
You can go if you like," and then down came his stick with a sounding thwack on the donkey's flank.
He gave me a lusty rapping thwack on my back,--what then?
The first person that Britton encountered on his road home was a particularly slow-moving watchman, whom he levelled at once with a thwack between the shoulders, inflicted with the flat part of the cleaver.
Britton was picked up by the butcher, and laid with a thwack as if he had been some huge joint of meat, upon one of the oaken tables.
