The ZBL's big generators could put out prodigious noise, too.

With a prodigious noise of wings, he left his perch and landed with a heavy thump.

It was like hitting stones, he did not move at all, but the huge lungs let out right over her head a prodigious noise, a bellow.

"And you, Nell," continued the minister, "will you take Harry to be your husband, and--" Before he could finish the sentence, a prodigious noise resounded from without.

Yet he never forgets that singers must sing, producing what he calls "this prodigious noise."

The hydrofoil's motor made a prodigious noise pulling away.

A single candle burned in the great paved kitchen, which was destitute of the customary furniture; and as the party proceeded to ascend from thence by a flight of winding stairs, a prodigious noise of rats testified still more plainly to the dilapidation of the house.