The sky rattled loudly and the noise sounded like rain clouds thumping together, creating a shaft movement of energy. |
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Arthur's daydreams were interrupted by what sounded like a fist thumping on wood in the far distance. |
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Looking over my clothes once, fast, I nodded and walked on, heavy but functional boots thumping against the soil. |
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Once she reached her two story home, her ears were assaulted with the sounds of feet thumping around upstairs. |
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Immediately she heard the sound of shoes thumping from the other side of the house. |
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The bullets whistled past Ash's head, thumping into nearby ships with a pock-twang noise. |
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Last night, between about 7 pm and 8 pm there were thumping sounds every few seconds. |
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And in the bathroom I'd have a field day, heavily thumping the loo seat down every time he left it up. |
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I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer. |
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A cold sweat ran over me, and my heart began thumping violently, almost painfully, in my chest. |
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I was a shy schoolboy who was too shy to read in class without his heart thumping so loud that everybody could hear. |
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Spring is sprung, hormones are jumping, hearts are thumping and the seasonal cycle of attraction's in full swing once more. |
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The pounding was so bad that my brother could hear my heart thumping as we lay in bed at night. |
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My heart was thumping so loudly in my ears I thought it was going to explode. |
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I move slightly and gasp, jumping backwards, heart thumping with shock and fright. |
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Quietly I began to retreat down the stairs, my heart thumping wildly with fear for my life. |
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Last time the Stereophonics were here, they were headlining Glasgow Green and thumping beery hits out over the heads of a huge celebratory crowd. |
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Rovers started the season with a bang, thumping Wolves 5-1 on the opening day of the new campaign. |
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Haworth move into second place after thumping visitors Ingrow St John's by nine wickets. |
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Those who still admire Ezra Pound's pretentious poetry will presumably enjoy listening to him reciting while thumping on a kettledrum. |
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The beat of the kick drum is the sound of a brass doorknocker thumping outside the vast, hollow halls of limbo. |
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Good use was also made of neon lights, phosphorescent glow sticks, reflectors, fiber optics, and a thumping dance floor. |
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There he showed how much he was listening to the countryside by thumping a rural protestor. |
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Meindl returns with a stellar serving of thumping grooves, rolling basslines, stabby synths, dubbed-out chords, precision drum hits and more. |
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The marquee now lies in darkness, no thumping bass, or any noise at all to speak of. |
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Pat Stephenson's heroes became the first side to bring the Tetley's Bitter Vase to North Yorkshire with a thumping 36-20 triumph. |
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Yet the evidence gathers each year like a thumping great storm cloud, complete with warning bolts of lightning. |
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The acquisition of LF Brian Giles does more than give the Padres a thumping lineup. |
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City fans' quest for glory in the Worthington Fives national five-a-side supporters' competition came to a thumping end in the quarter-finals. |
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Congratulations Boris, I'm delighted you retained your seat with a thumping majority. |
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They had contributed in votes to Narendra Modi and were flush with his thumping victory. |
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In one area, by the council's own admission, a thumping 70 per cent of homes are eschewing wheelie bins. |
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Without instruments, listeners will hear whooping, chattering, burbling, aspirating and the occasional thumping beatbox. |
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Top 40 hits sounded excellent too, with thumping bass notes and nice trebles. |
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The only sound he is aware of is his shoulder pads thumping against his torso as he dashes downfield. |
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A thumping defeat at this point in time could have done some serious damage to morale. |
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He would be up on his feet thumping, and telling us that repeal was the option. |
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They used diggers and metal cutters, and stamped down material by thumping it with the bucket of an excavator. |
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It began with the sergeant, or havildar, thumping out a beat on an empty jerry can using a carabiner. |
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Million Dead have the stomping riffs and thumping bass lines that make them a great band. |
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However they may lead to palpitations, which is an unpleasant awareness of the heartbeat, often described as a thumping in the chest. |
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This is a coast of colours, of thumping aquamarine swells, fat red grapes and sands as fine and white as Meissen china. |
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Yes, there was a lot of chest and back scratching and thumping, and palsied flinging about of the hands and arms. |
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This is a pounding tribal techno track, complete with various jungle animal sound effects and thumping percussive loops. |
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The wind had picked up strength, thumping hard against the window every couple of minutes. |
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All year, Austin just kept on thumping on the nation's primest pivots, with minimum offensive support and always with a smile. |
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I stride over, boots thumping intimidatingly on the wooden floor, throw open the door, and what do I find on my porch? |
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The thumping bass of The Docks, the islanders say, is tortuous, keeping them up all night. |
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The actors flurry about backstage, hissing, thumping and gesticulating wildly between cues. |
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It began with brass, drums and crashing cymbals, and it skipped into an irresistible beat that was borne along by a thumping tuba. |
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For more than a decade now, the climate change deniers have been in retreat, humbled by the thumping weight of scientific evidence against them. |
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She felt a steady thumping and Cain's hand seemed to pulse with each thump. |
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They were distracted by a dull thumping sound from the other side of the room. |
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Last time we met, I kept thumping her on the leg as a way demonstrating my affection and she duffed me up. |
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My temples are thumping, my pulse is racing, and I'm starting to shake, visibly. |
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A thumping in the distance made him tense with fear and he slowed his pace to a jog. |
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A thumping bass boomed over the speakers as the DJ put on a techno dance number. |
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He quickly chewed and swallowed hard, thumping his chest to make sure it went down the right way. |
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He gesticulated and swore at the young couple, holding up his fist and thumping the vehicle, and mouthing to the passenger to get out of the car. |
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Generally a guy called Martand would start thumping the desk and everyone would follow suit. |
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There's something oh, so satisfying about thumping a punch bag just as hard as you can. |
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He kept on following us down the street, repeating the same thing, jumping up at me waving his money, thumping my arms with his little fists. |
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General Musharraf was seen thumping his fists vigorously at the only wall in the room. |
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You don't need to worry about having a couple of big blokes thumping your door and giving you a hard time. |
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If you go to a world championship boxing match, you know, one of the boxers will come in inevitably thumping his fists in time with the drumbeat. |
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Yet with heavy weapons whining and thumping in the hills around us, nothing seems more distant than the prospect of a hearty meal. |
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After thumping Burnley 5-1 last Saturday, City moved two points clear at the top thanks to the Clarets fixture with Bradford falling foul of the elements. |
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But we neutrals will be ushered away, leaving the stage set for a thumping reaffirmation of the view that Hadrian's Wall means far more than a few stones on a hill. |
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His oxfords made soft thumping noises on the marble foyer floor. |
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Once again, there was the sound of footsteps thumping up the stairs. |
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We surged forward, hearts thumping, ducking to avoid water bombs and grasping hands, until we were disgorged at an open green beneath the city walls. |
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Amplified harmonica, foot thumping guitar and screechy blues hollers and shouts are immediately distinctive, taking you back to an era before blues turned slick. |
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That was when my heart began thumping so hard, I could actually hear it. |
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Until recently, with global demand soaring for oil, gas, and minerals, thumping the tub against imperialism played well at home. |
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On the anniversaries of the martyrs' deaths, young men gather and work themselves into a frenzy, rhythmically thumping their chests and lashing their backs with metal flails. |
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Next time your electricity or gas bill comes thumping through the door on to the mat, you could be excused for not being too sure you can trust it. |
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Trance features as many as 150 beats a minute, coupled with a thumping bass and a variety of sounds ranging from psychedelic bleeps to hard guitar rifts. |
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The sight and sound of predominately young males parading around the county with stereos thumping and large exhausts growling is a growing nuisance. |
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Instead, with the skirl of the bagpipes and a thumping bass beat, on comes Flower of Scotland and we sing along as lustily as if we are at Murrayfield. |
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The rabbits were scattering for their boltholes, thumping the ground as they ran so as to warn those still below ground that they should remain there. |
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Kabwe Warriors yesterday avoided an upset by thumping promotion side Prison Leopards in a FAZ Premier Division week-eight derby played at Railway ground. |
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Caley Thistle came into the match on thumping good form after thrashing Raith Rovers, but have the knack of yo-yoing from spectacular results to disappointment. |
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But there was no thumping the air or revelling in her triumph. |
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You won't learn how to bake a cake or wallpaper the kitchen but you will have a thumping, pumping, roller-coaster ride through the virtual world of computer and video games. |
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Likud back-benchers, already alarmed at the specter of renewed peace talks, have begun thumping for a hard-liner in that key post. |
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It was the familiar loud thumping of the Captains as well as the softer tap tap tapping of his boots that made such the welcoming sound as the two blew into the dinning room. |
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Dixon turned on the air conditioner and radio, both full blast, to drown out the thumping. |
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Across Bengal, those who had once deemed her an affront have voted her in with a thumping majority. |
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Kate Winslet, the emphatically English rose of British cinema, is a trouper, a ruddy good sport, a thumping great head prefect of common sense and hockey-sticks jollity. |
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Yep, aggressive lyrics and guitar riffs, all backed by the trademark thumping drums, with only moments of calm to provide a respite from the headbanging. |
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Stephen Cooke delivered an inch-perfect free kick from the right which Liam Ridgewell met emphatically with a thumping header past the helpless Kieron Renton. |
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You need the right song to remix because there are certain ones that aren't constructed to add bleeps, scratches or a constant thumping bass line. |
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So, after all that, it's a thumping victory for good old Ceefax. |
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His heart was thumping in his chest, his Sten gun raised, aiming forward. |
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The thumping, Morse code like bass-line harmonizes with the psychedelic guitars flawlessly to provide the right atmosphere to let loose and have a good time. |
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Richmond run machine Ben Griffiths plundered 184 runs to help his side to a thumping 117 run victory over Barnes on Saturday in Middlesex League Division One. |
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You could hear the sound of its blades thumping through the air-con vents. |
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There's a palpable sense of excitement as the song suddenly explodes into a frenetic blast of crashing cymbals, screeching guitars, and thumping bass. |
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Now I just feel like a thumping huge disappointment to myself. |
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Hearts thumping, we slipped beneath the surface, anticipating a gnarly passage through silty twists and turns, with the blood roaring in our ears and pulses hammering. |
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The third XV were on the end of a 38-10 r everse at Ormskirk, whilst the fourth XV had a thumping 40-0 win over Shotton. |
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That thumping noise is my biological clock chundering like a box of Pampers trapped in the Hadron Collider. |
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For all the drumbeating and chest thumping that India and Pakistan engage in, what military texture are we talking about? |
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I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet. |
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It was an education seeing them au naturel, up to their wheel rims in clag, armour-plated bottoms thumping over boulders. |
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It is as if Smilevski is demanding an encore by thumping on his own book. |
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There was a sudden scrambling and thumping overhead and hot exclamations zephyred down to them. |
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The Dons are certs to face the Dutch outfit in the Europa League next round after a first leg thumping of Latvian no-hopers Daugava Riga. |
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Ghosts and other undeadly creatures surround you as a loud thumping fills the room and consumes your body. |
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How's that for Apples my little quran thumping goose stepping little wanna be terrorist? |
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I was talking to Bob about the noise made by my neighbours, when right on cue their music started thumping through the wall. |
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Shop chain Tie Rack showed red yesterday as the company revealed a thumping loss. |
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The Durham all-rounder has a fractured scaphoid in his right hand and has been ruled out of the World T20 after thumping the locker at the Kensington Oval. |
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Andy MacAskill was Turriff 's hat-trick hero in their 7-0 thumping of Strathspey, while Buckie beat Keith 4-1 with the help of Lewis Mackinnon's brace. |
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Darius Vassell opened the scoring on 12 minutes, thumping the ball home after Lee Hendrie miskicked Gareth Barry's cross following good work by Jlloyd Samuel. |
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Woolton Cons took full advantage of the slip-ups to record a 6-1 thumping of Guild Hall and now move joint second in the table with Christ The King. |
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Play resumed after a delay of around 25 minutes and Brown continued to delight his noisy band of Jamaican fans with some thumping serves and forehands. |
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The Dons were as short as 4-5 to take a victory from their first leg against Czech side Sigma Olomouc, but a patched-up side succumbed to a 5-1 thumping at Pittodrie. |
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Only under the most picayunely literal interpretation of rules can the thumping Kronwall laid on Havlat in Game 3 of the Western Conference final be considered interference. |
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