Rumbling

Examples

• For a long time his receiving instruments would only give out vague rumbling noises. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The dull, rumbling sound of wheels was heard on the pavement in the yard. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The green Martians converse but little, and then usually in monosyllables, low and like the faint rumbling of distant thunder. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The trucks were still rumbling by, and the man and the mare were still fighting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was attended with a hollow rumbling noise like that of thunder. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• All, in a rumbling tone of protest. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There they found the gate shut, because the colliery train was rumbling nearer. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was now dark; but a rumbling of wheels was audible. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And away he went, rumbling out the words with his strong voice and a relish which was good to see as well as hear. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Immense glaciers approached the road; we heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche, and marked the smoke of its passage. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The stillness consequent on the cessation of the rumbling and labouring of the coach, added to the stillness of the night, made it very quiet indeed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Finally, above the banging, and rumbling, and shouting, and hissing of steam rang the order to cast off! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Editor: Ronda