boomings

As you would expect, it was a scenic hour, with long views from the dazzling blue above and shorter ones from the murky blue below, mysterious and silent but for the imagined boomings of the deep or the scraping of a plaintive cello.

Rewind TV: Ocean Giants; Who Do You Think You Are?; The Story of British Pathé: the Birth of the News; Wilfred – review 2011

Nor had I any choice then but to listen to the night-sounds of the forest; and they were various as the day-sounds, and for every day-sound, from the faintest lisping and softest trill to the deep boomings and piercing cries, there was an analogue; always with something mysterious, unreal in its tone, something proper to the night.

Green Mansions 2004

There was quite a long silence, broken by an interested, soft outburst of gentle boomings from the serving frog-maids.

The Moon Pool 2004

From the swelling throat pouch of the monster behind her came a succession of the reverberant boomings.

The Moon Pool 2004

The boomings and bellowings are said to be loudest at sunrise and sunset.

The Land of Midian 2003

As she stood, the wind brought faint boomings that might almost have been thunder.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

The boomings, whatever they were, must have been trapped and channeled beneath an atmospheric reflecting layer far below.

A Meeting with Medusa Clarke, Arthur C. 1988

Distant hollow boomings came long after the lights were gone and then the sounds faded into the crashing on the reef.

Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

If one judged by the reviews that have appeared so far, one would imagine JR to be the former kind of work: obscure and full of boomings, perhaps even a true work of genius, which normally means pretentiously exclusive, turgidly self-indulgent, and awesomely unreadable, like Finnegans Wake.

Big Deals Gardner, John 1976

The boomings, whatever they were, must have been trapped and channeled beneath an atmospheric reflecting layer far below.

The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962