Big things rumbled, you could hear them from far off, and you had to work out where they would come, and get away from them.

He had slept through his usual bedtime snack, and his rumbling tummy sort of distracted him.

So having a uniquely recognizable call, like Mlaika's low truck-rumble sound, could be a very useful.

Yet in our ears are the silver vivid bugles of a new creation advancing on us from behind, we hear the rolling of the soft and happy drums of the doves.

But geologists can now listen to the tiniest vibrations rumbling through the Earth.

No one from my heart to hear that kind of sound, because the rumbling sound of aircraft flying has been drowned out of my broken heart, and my tears landing sound.

Then I lay there, listening to the boiler roar, and feeling the cool air on my face as it came through the half-open kitchen door, and the warm water on my body.

I often sit in their room for a minute, listening to their breathing, the house ticking over in the stillness, the muted rumble and whoosh of a late train.

She hunches forward, carrying hertwo-year-old on her back. Then, as cars and trucks rumble past, she leads thegroup on a steady march into town.

Defeat didn't seem an option either, so I pulled the rope one more time. The motor sputtered to life.

I remember that rich bass voice hanging in the night air, making some elaborate operatic point despite the lateness of the hour - and the train.

The sight and sound of our jet planes filled me with special longing.

Then she was gone: her hair a golden blur, the click of her heels on the stone path a counterpoint to the rumbling suitcase wheels behind her.

Soon enough, though, she was back at it, rumbling around the back roads of Redford Township, just west of Detroit, where her family owned a sprawling dairy and potato farm.

The two Irishmen watched them go, then climbed into the black Mercedes - the young one behind the wheel, the older man in the passenger seat. The finely tuned engine purred to life.

He pulled up next to a Honda, pressed the button, and, boom, the car began to cut the front wheels and ease itself into the space.

He lived along that coast now every night and in his dreams he heard the surf roar and saw the native boats come riding through it.

Low-pitched sounds are caused by slower vibrations such as the rumble of a passing training or a low note played on a piano.

For a wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels.

Chelsea have rumbled to three straight league victories at the start of the season, despite pundits pointing out their lack of width, and wondering just how effective they can continue to be.