"Earsplitting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... motor trouble, and had finally camped after dark a half mile above the spot where Victory and I had spent the night. They must have passed us in the dark, and why I did not hear the sound of the propeller I do not know, unless it passed me at a time when the lions were making an unusually earsplitting din ...
— The Lost Continent • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... With a screaming, earsplitting roar, a white cloud swept from the direction of the boiler house at the clustering forms on the ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... in operation—which are not exactly what you would call quiet; he had listened to the outlandish voice of a suction-dredge and the tumultuous clamor of a threshing machine. But this earsplitting clatter was like nothing ...
— Tom Slade on a Transport • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... very little except that I was fighting for my breath as I never had fought for anything. There were more hurts and bruises now, but they did not matter. Just to draw my own breath in my own way seemed to be the only thing in the world that was of any account. And then there was a shaft of flame, an earsplitting roar, and the rain was upon us in sheets, in streams, ...
— Painted Windows • Elia W. Peattie
... and set it ablaze. It burned furiously, with a very alarming sputter, bullets flying everywhere, although their velocity was not great. They were flying over our heads and we had to go underground. Several about the fire got rather badly wounded. When fully alight the noise was the most earsplitting I ever heard, not that it was so very loud, but there was something painful about it. This pile was composed of cartridges taken off our own dead and wounded, and those picked up about the trenches, where a sinful waste goes on, although I believe the big half was captured Turkish ...
— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson |
