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  • There were windsails stretched from the after-bridge to mattresses on the quarter-deck, down which one shot through the dizzy darkness to end in a delicious "wump" at the bottom.

    A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

  • Clay, the guns I wastalking about was the High Standard Semi-Auto pistol, blowback slide, the shorts don't have enough wump to load another round ...

    A List of Firearms Superlatives 2007

  • The rifle let out another dull wump as it discharged.

    The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

  • The rifle let out another dull wump as it discharged.

    The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

  • The rifle let out another dull wump as it discharged.

    The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

  • Mug on the right of center side and very little wump on the other side.

    Is Obama ever going to stop giving the finger to progressives? 2008

  • The sky was ablaze, and she was deafened by the sounds of automatic-weapons fire, roaring planes, and the wump of deadly mortar shells.

    Excerpt: The Sky Is Falling by Sidney Sheldon 2000

  • It wasn't likely that anything would happen to a creature that could dispatch a cave wight or a bog wump without breaking a sweat, but Ben was spooked by how easily Rydall had overcome those he had sent to protect Mistaya.

    Witches' Brew Brooks, Terry, 1944- 1995

  • "I was standing in the Whuzel-wump, on watch, and the next thing I know this ship that looks like a ... like a ... well, like him."

    The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • A great wump of hot air welled up from the explosion throwing Ford and Colin violently up into the sky.

    Mostly Harmless Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1992

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