#thud

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud. ↗

— John Barrow

#away #back #bringing #crest #down

I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#fell #i #off #pink #thud

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#desk #house #judgment #lands #leadership

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box. ↗

— James Herriot

#box #comes #connoisseur #i #letter

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#ahead #away #battle #begun #clock

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him. ↗

— Ron Wood

#bloody #call #cut #ground #head