When she pulled the trigger, there was a sound like ripping canvas and bullets screamed off brick.

His 3-round burst was audible, if you were close enough and listening, a sound like ripping canvas.

Instead --" With a mighty, convulsive heave and a gasp that drowned out the sound of ripping canvas, Captain Ball expanded himself to his fullest capacity.

The aluminum tore like ripping canvas and he toppled into an open shaft.

Svarzkova raised her machine gun, and the ancient weapon let out a snarl like ripping canvas as it poured fire into the metal door of the fuse box.

The big Ducati engine echoed off the stone walls lining the road with a sound like ripping canvas, pleasing to Dr Lecter as he leaned into the curves and coped with the smell of hairspray and inexpensive perfume in his helmet.

Down an alley, a dog barked and then snarled, a sound like ripping canvas.

Svarzkova's submachine gun snarled with the sound of ripping canvas as she tracked a dark-clothed figure as it dropped below the windowsill.

A snort like ripping canvas showed what Sumeko thought of the "simple" form, the only sort of Healing Aes Sedai had known for thousands of years.

There was a sudden WHOOSH followed by the sounds of ripping canvas, wood splintering, and assorted screams and curses.