thud

The next two obstacles, the water course and the barrier, were easily crossed, but Vronsky began to hear the snorting and thud of Gladiator closer upon him.

Not a single miss, and I could hear distinctly the thud of every bullet as it buried in human flesh.

Thud, thud, we could hear the impact of their great heads, and their bellowing shook the pans on the kitchen shelves.

Just as he emerged, stepping out a pace, a rifle cracked to his right, and though he did not hear the bullet in passing, the thud of it came to his ears when it struck a palm-trunk farther on.

Would the creaking be much worse than the thud, and the difference worth the risk of a sprained ankle?

Into the stillness came the repeated heavy thud of guns, one, two, a pause, then three in quick succession.

It had toppled over the brim of the cylinder and fallen into the pit, with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather.

When the first blast of smoke shot out through the bars of my helmet, all those people broke for the woods, and Sandy went over backwards and struck the ground with a dull thud. They thought I was one of those fire-belching dragons they had heard so much about from knights and other professional liars.

'Noa!' said Joseph, giving a thud with his prop on the floor, and assuming an authoritative air.

At last, overcome with weariness, I sat down upon a rock, but I had hardly closed my eyes when I was startled by something which fell to the ground with a thud close beside me.

An hour before dark the great walls of the atmosphere plant loomed suddenly before me, and with a sickening thud I plunged to the ground before the small door which was withholding the spark of life from the inhabitants of an entire planet.

Sheer down, screaming, seventy feet he fell, smashing to the earth with an audible thud and crunch, his body rebounding slightly and settling down again.