Many thousand machine-gun shots had he heard, but none with the life and the spite and the spang of these.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
He could now plainly see the revolver flashes and could hear the thud and spang of their bullets striking.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
In fact, this very similarity must have been in the mind of the distressed coloured woman in Mrs. Williams's kitchen, when she declared that she might "jes' as well try to cook right spang in the middle o' the stock-yards."
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington