Word: thumpingly
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...reeled crazily in the air, sideslipped, almost dropped into the foam. The cook sought to lure it to alight and rest by spreading meat scraps upon the stern. The eagle soared once more by great effort, distanced the ship for an instant, suddenly appeared to faint in midair, fell thump upon the deck...
Chivalry. The theatrical season suffered another rousing thump on the back when this old-time melodrama landed. It is one of those things about a poor girl who had no chance and ended up by shooting the wicked old employer who introduced her to a life of shameful indolence...
...Orleans Civic Opera Company began its season with a performance of Carmen, starring Alice Gentle. In Manhattan a pianist kept his audience waiting for half an hour after his recital was billed to begin. When at last he entered, he began to thump the keys in an unmerciful manner, forcing his tone, letting his left hand get in front of his right and pouring out his music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries...
...when they had removed the two victims and others, battered and bruised by many a thump, they could not find the soul-sick hacker. The deep night and still night had swallowed...
...tolling-bells were drowned in a roar of gunfire-the body of Friedrich Ebert had baen lowered into its last resting place, following a Catholic burial service.* Then, all was quiet except for the shuffling of unwilling and retreating footsteps and the thump of the earth as the diggers began to fill in the grave...