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  • The hoofs of the two squads created a muted thunderlike sound as they struck the heavy planks set in clay that formed the hard surface of the Cross-Stream Pike.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • I took him from her, I laid him softly down, kissed his cold little mouth, and turned to speak in a vain whisper, when loudest sound of thunderlike cannon could not have reached him in his immaterial abode.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Rig said, his voice growing hoarse from shouting to be heard over the increasing thunderlike noise of the trembling cave.

    The Day of the Tempest Rabe, Jean 1997

  • There were two rounds apiece in each gun, no time to reload, Sarah's small pistol, about the size of his own Detonics guns, the gun he'd seen her wearing throughout the late afternoon and evening, flashing fire twice before he could shoot, the Brigand biker's body blown from the bike seat, the bike crashing into the glaring whiteness of the fence, splintering the wood there with a thunderlike cracking sound.

    The End Is Coming Ahern, Jerry 1984

  • Skilled in battle, those heroes in wrath assailed the advancing host of celestials with their own thunderlike arrows.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Then numerous birds of the Garuda tribe bearing excellent feathers, beholding that the forest was protected by Krishna and Arjuna, descended filled with pride, from the upper skies, desirous of striking those heroes with their thunderlike wings, beaks and claws.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Skilled in battle, those heroes in wrath assailed the advancing host of celestials with their own thunderlike arrows.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Then numerous birds of the Garuda tribe bearing excellent feathers, beholding that the forest was protected by Krishna and Arjuna, descended filled with pride, from the upper skies, desirous of striking those heroes with their thunderlike wings, beaks and claws.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Standing on the platform, I glanced at the mighty volume of water; here precipitated over a huge rock 163 feet high with a thunderlike roar that can be heard, under favorable circumstances, a distance of fifteen miles.

    By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

  • I took him from her, I laid him softly down, kissed his cold little mouth, and turned to speak in a vain whisper, when loudest sound of thunderlike cannon could not have reached him in his immaterial abode.

    III.2 1826

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