He heard the distant, muffled sounds, and low voices nearer, and thuds and footfalls.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
The head, after one or two sickening thuds on the hard road, which must have temporarily stunned the creature, slipped out on the left side, when the momentum of the wheel immediately strung the entire body straight out behind me, where it streamed with all its twenty pounds weight acting as a brake."
"Tales from the Veld"
Ernest Glanville
The ancient tower Seems sudden to lean and darkly lower; While with heavy thuds, as from stage to stage They headlong bound.
"Poems of Emile Verhaeren"
Emile Verhaeren