Thumping

Examples

• I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With my heart thumping like a blacksmith at Joe's broad shoulder, I looked all about for any sign of the convicts. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• At a more than ordinary pitch of thumping and hallooing in the passage, he exclaimed, Devil take those young dogs! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• What a thumping present I'd get out of him! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Don't you remember the two Miss Scratchleys at Chiswick, how they used always to fight and quarrel--and Mary Box, how she was always thumping Louisa? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Before daylight I heard the male thumping in the snow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I say agin, I want you, Sir Pitt said, thumping the table. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He might have heard the thumping of his own heart. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I listen at the wall sometimes when I am in bed, and I think I hear her thumping him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here, my dear, I was interrupted last night by a dreadful thumping at my door: and who do you think it was? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then he heard a horse coming, the hoofs balled with the wet snow thumping dully as the horseman trotted. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Editor: Vicky