thunder-roll

The lightning flashes came faster and faster and closer together; the thunder-roll was almost continuous, not stopping for

The Lair of the White Worm 2003

High above the thunder-roll of human discontent and awful pain, blazes the lightning of thought, and the undying aspiration of the soul.

Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

The thunder-roll of the report, reverberating amid the ice, is the death-sentence of the flock.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

It came in the shape of a thunder-roll that began far off and reverberated from mountain to mountain; then muttered itself into silence in the more distant hills.

Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

He felt as though these words rushed from him like a thunder-roll reverberating through the empty space around him.

The Hand in the Dark 1907

But it was only at half-past eleven that the cannon began to roar, and the undulating plain carried the echo like a thunder-roll from heaving billow to heaving billow till it broke against the silent majesty of the forest of Soigne.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

The lightning flashes came faster and faster and closer together; the thunder-roll was almost continuous, not stopping for a moment -- a new crash beginning before the old one had ceased.

Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker 1879

Vastly and swiftly, nearer and nearer it came, -- a ponderous and unbroken thunder-roll, terrible as the long muttering of an earthquake.

Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877

It is a twelve days 'epic, worthy, as I said in the beginning of this book, not of dull prose, but of the thunder-roll of Homer's verse: but having to tell it, I must do my best, rather using, where I can, the words of contemporary authors than my own.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

Lionel and Darrell, hurried them, mechanically as it were, to the very spot from which that thunder-roll had pealed.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838