He fell, and at that same instant a short spear passed over him and thudded into a tree two spans away.

I could feel my heart thudding away in my chest.

Fish navigated in on the inboard engine, the diesel thudding away beneath him.

The voices dimmed as the heavy boots thudded away, and Bill stirred.

Valentine found himself six inches backward, heart thudding away, and nonplussed.

A moment later he was gone, boots thudding away into the wind-bent pines.

The anger was thudding away in his chest and at his temples like a second heartbeat.

Somehow, also, the sword flew from his hand and thudded to the ground yards away.

Their footpaws thudded away at the packed earth wall.

The robot saluted and was gone, his running steps thudding away in the distance.