The noises were a kind of irregular thumping accompanied by a peculiar grinding sound.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
If only his heart could stop thumping and his brain burning, he would have done the rejoicing that Rosalind was there, knowing all he knew, and loving him; that Sally was there, loving him too, but knowing nothing, and needing to know nothing; that one of his first greetings in the day to come would be from Conrad Vereker, probably too much intoxicated with his own happiness to give much attention to what he was beginning to acknowledge was some kind of physical or nervous fever.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
But he did have a mighty thumping headache that has gone now."
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine