There was a hard and ill-tempered thump at the door.

Just then something hit my hood with a hard, heavy thump.

And then the whole building shuddered with a hard thump, as if struck by something huge.

They fell about him with a series of hard thumps and he was not touched.

This was followed almost at once by a hard thump, and I knew we had arrived.

He landed flat on his back with a hard thump.

Then she crumpled down after it, landing with a hard thump.

His head had taken a hard thump when he sprawled.

The hard thump as she hit the water was particularly good.

My heart gave a hard thump, but that was out of habit.