With a mighty thud, Captain Ball slumped unconscious to the floor of the cabin.

Pointedly avoiding each other's eyes, they raise a massive leg into the air (to a height that would do a professional dancer proud), slam it down with a mighty thud, and lower themselves into the characteristic squat.

She got him up but with a wide loving grin, he enfolded her in big arms and, utterly slack, bore her over and down with a mighty thud of their combined weights.

They slammed to the ground with a mighty thud and silence ensued.

Where he stood he could not see what was going on on deck, unless, perhaps, the tops of the men's heads; he could only hear the scuffle, the mighty thuds, as if the ship were being knocked to pieces.

Douglas Fraser: "With a mighty thud, the Ledger has been slammed shut.

Over goes Hawk with a mighty thud.

There was a machine which stamped out the iron plates, and then another which, with a mighty thud, mashed them to the shape of the sitting-down portion of the American farmer.

The woman's suit has made a comeback, at least according to the weighty fashion tomes that arrive with a mighty thud come fall.

"On September 24, 1869, Wall Street crashed with a mighty thud."