roaring

• And had he not heard a dreadful roaring, as if all the cattle on Faldonside Hill were routing at once? —  The Gold Of Fairnilee
• As the hurricane increased in strength and gained greater and greater power over the water, the seas increased in height and came rolling and tumbling on, foaming, hissing, and roaring-- threatening every instant to engulph her. —  Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy
• On came the billow--roaring, foaming. —  Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy
• If we English were to join the Turks, as of course you wish us to do, and help you to maintain your misrule, to say nothing of the massacres which have been and still are going on around us, we should have to keep our philanthropic societies at work still longer, and thus we should be seen cutting men down with one hand and binding them up with the other,--roaring like fiends as we slaughter sires, and at the same time, with the same voice, softly comforting widows and fatherless children. —  In the Track of the Troops
• His chief fear at the moment was that his comrades at the camp might have heard the roaring--distant though they were from the spot--and might arrive in time to spoil, by sharing, his victory Victory? —  The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood

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