Noise in example sentence
His boot strikes an anthill two feet high, destroys the habitation of the ants, scatters the ants and their eggs to the four winds ...The most philosophical among the ants will never understand that black, enormous, fearful body--the hunter's boot which all of a sudden has burst into their dwelling with incredible speed, preceded by a terrifying noise, accompanied by a flash of reddish flame ...'So it is with death, life, eternity, things that would be quite simple to anyone who had organs vast enough to conceive them ...'An ephemeral fly is born at nine o'clock in the morning, on one of the long days of summer, to die at five o'clock in the afternoon; how should it understand the word _night_?