His balls thumped against the steering column, producing instant leaden pain.

A ball thumped overhead, so close that its passage rocked Sharpe's shako.

He nodded as the ball thumped into the catcher's mitt.

The ball thumped the back iron but softly rolled in to keep the Nets alive.

Posada's ball thumped near the very top of the padded wall, bounced upward and fell to the warning track.

I looked at the gate every time the ball thumped it.

The ball thumped against the shadowed screen - for a strike.

The ball thumped past Sharpe, the pressure of it on his cheek, past Leroux, and flattened itself against the far wall.

Jack's bat defence was mistimed and the ball thumped into his shin.

Now all the pirates were firing and balls kicked spray off the water close at hand, or thumped into the timbers of the longboat.