Crashing

Examples

• The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was a crashing crack and a downward stab of yellow in the dark. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The crashing of their blades upon mine raised a terrific din that might have been heard for miles through the silent night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Scarcely had Mbonga ceased speaking when a great crashing of branches in the trees above them caused the blacks to look up in renewed terror. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Or had some sudden blow from her hand dashed the support away and sent the slab crashing down into its place? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We heard the wheels of the dog-cart crashing on the gravel of the drive as we came into the hall. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And for a moment Hermione's haggard eyes saw the fear on the face of the other, there was again a sort of crash, a crashing down. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Rolling and crashing on as if it echoed through a thousand caverns where the devils were hiding from it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The hollow night was rocking and crashing with noise, and from the sluice came sharp, regular flashes of sound. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A luckless young female slipped from an insecure hold upon a high branch and came crashing to the ground almost at Kerchak's feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Amelia flung the bottle crashing into the fire-place. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He gently places her with her back to the crashing engine that constantly whirrs up and falls, and she looks into his face and thanks him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Editor: Trudy