With a screaming, earsplitting roar, a white cloud swept from the direction of the boiler house at the clustering forms on the top of the stockade.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
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.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson
The automatic radiation safety equipment filled the ship with an earsplitting buzz of warning.
"Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet"
Harold Leland Goodwin