During this patting and thumping interval a train thundered by.
"Oh," said Phyllis, "my heart's thumping like a steam-engine—right under my sash, too.
" "Do you mean to tell me," shouted the Rat, thumping with his little fist upon the table, "that you've heard nothing about the Stoats and Weasels?
I wondered if I looked as I felt and if they could hear my heart thumping clear across the room.
Valancy did not look up as it drew near, thumping over the rocks in that crazy lane.
" Bran's heart was thumping in his chest as he pushed through a waist-high drift to his brothers' side.
I woke up one morning last week with all the usual signs of a nasty cold: thumping headache, blocked nose, spousal accusations that I had spent the night snoring like a pregnant hippo.
But it's there, thumping and sometimes racing in a franchise that, more than most industrial movies and even putative indies, speaks to both its audience and its time.
And here a fresh alarm brought me to a standstill with a thumping heart.
His heart thumping and his throat dry, he went down the steps.
As her tiny hands stroked the great shaggy head, I heard the gentle thump, thump, thumping of the wolf's tail from deep inside the stump.
" The mouse ran around thumping and stomping here and there.
