It was a steady, rhythmic thumping and rustling like nothing he had ever heard before.

"It's a new machine we've invented," raising his voice to carry over the steady thumping that filled the room.

It was only the steady thumping on her door that broke through.

Then Kroft's smooth forehead suddenly wrinkled at the sound of a steady thumping from outside the house.

The noise grew louder and more rhythmic, a steady thumping like a heartbeat magnified a thousand times.

The minutes ticked by, the room silent except for the sound of their breathing and the strong, steady thumping of his heart under her ear.

The other four marched on toward Barrett's, to the steady thumping of the drums.

Robyn's tiny ears, more keen than those of her human body, heard the steady thumping of the monstrous heart.

There was a long silence and Roxane slid her fingers over to his neck to feel the steady thumping of his pulse.

There it was, the steady thumping of my heart.