Josephine sat up in bed, arms wrapped around her knees, and listened to the rain thrumming on the roof. |
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He cocked his head as he felt the deck under his feet thrumming with power. |
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A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window. |
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Rain starts thrumming into the canal and onto the skylight outside my room. |
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Outside the dramatically beautiful Saitama stadium the coaches were waiting to leave, their engines thrumming in the darkness. |
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In this case, thrumming bass plucks and bouncing ball patterns entropically expire amidst wheezing exhalations and electrical shimmer. |
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Those words were thrumming through my head every minute I was in that establishment. |
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The only sounds were bugs thrumming in the grasses above and birds chirping even higher up. |
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Stretched full upon the floor would lay the minstrel, lute in hands, thrumming gently as his voice rang out through the marble room. |
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Sitting up on the coaming, spring sun in our eyes, the thrumming of the sail above us, we were as happy as the coots and grebes fossicking around in the reeds. |
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In no time, the Latin American blogosphere was thrumming with jokes and parodies. |
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But WordPerfect, the oldest word processing program still in wide production for PC's, is thrumming along. |
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As a child, did you ever slip beneath the bathwater's surface, listen to the blood thrumming in your ears, and find comfort in being completely submerged? |
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She's aware of the engine thrumming beneath her, and through her. |
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I could feel the land thrumming with a barely contained vibrancy. |
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But along Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, powered up, the sidewalks were thrumming. |
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If Welbeck wasn't exactly flying at that point he was at least – still aged just 21 – thrumming eagerly on the runway. |
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The native quarter, La Cité Indigene, where blacks were corralled after dark, was thrumming. |
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This son has begun thrumming the strings of hereditary determinism, and is finding them holding taut. |
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Every window on our street is wide open, and the air is thrumming with the rotating hum of a hundred desktop fans, sluggishly pushing the warm air from room to room. |
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The chopper engine kept on thrumming, and the sea came closer and closer. |
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Simmons keeps the dense, Hitchcockian plot thrumming with derring-do and literal cliffhangers and romance and a cryptozoological MacGuffin. |
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The city was already awake and thrumming, going about its business with none of the suburban fussiness that makes it unmannerly, for example, to crank up your lawn mower or your leaf blower before breakfast. |
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Bits of improv thrumming with the tension between melody and pure noise. |
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My focus, however, was on the road – rutted, pockmarked and occasionally thrumming to the noise of diesel-fuelled trucks – and making it intact to the summit. |
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Back on the autoroute, the horrors of the traffic mocked memories of Cyril Connolly's elegant accounts of thrumming down the parallel Route Nationale 7 in a roadster with plane trees rushing past and champagne in prospect. |
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The part, for which he leapt about the tennis star's living-room in a duel of thrumming forehands and sizzling smashes, took advantage of the physicality that has been a focal point of his comedy career. |
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