From below, there was a mighty thump, as though Marcia Threadgill had whacked on the ceiling with a combat boot.

This, combined with the brutal power of the water raging under the hull and emerging at the stern, caused Pendragon to hit the lock gates with a mighty thump.

It sprang upward through his hands, and even over the creak and the buffeting and the howl of wind through the rigging Lyra heard or felt a mighty thump from somewhere far above.

A full grown Douglas fir hits the ground with a mighty big thump - harder than a pile-driver.

He noted that the hotel's balconies "afford a fine view of the pageant of peace" and described "a mighty thump that popped eardrums and rattled glasses on the bathroom shelf" of his room at the Rock Hotel.

As Sulu left, Kirk nearly knocked Kang from his feet with a mighty thump on the back.

Trinket landed with such a mighty thump, he felt as if he had broken every bone in his body and would never be able to walk again.

A mighty thump came through the soles of her boots and then a crushing, numbing pulse of sound rolled down over her, dwarfing the percussive bark of the gun.

The bellowing in the glade suddenly ended in a mighty thump and a crimson spear flung itself into the sky and stabbed through the clouds.

Then there was a cracking sound, a mighty thump, and he lay amidst the wreckage on a surface of flat obsidian, the wall of flame behind him.