Having learned to know human voices, they had already felt the mounting excitement; they had already been Tamping the ground with hard driving strokes, as if making speed on the open highway-for some time.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
He came to pause in the centre of the exercise arena-a vast sanded disk just front of the stockade buildings-and stood rocking his huge body, Tamping the ground with his feet as if still travelling.
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
Nor did the men, those who worked under him-those who escaped alive-come to any definite conclusion as to the cause of the catastrophe: the night and day gang, I mean,-those who breathed the foul air, who had felt the chill of the clammy interior and who were therefore familiar with the handling of explosives and the proper Tamping of the charges-a slip of the steel meaning instantaneous annihilation.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith