The attack, which began in the early morning with a thundering wave of artillery and heavy machine-gun fire, involved thrusts outward from the city to the north and south.

Then they were gone, swept on downwards faster and faster in the thundering wave of water towards the Stumble Gate.

And then the next, Destiny, and the next, Souls, the combined brilliance of the sacred artifacts spilling into the chill air, searingly bright, as powerful as a thundering wave.

There he kept playing and dancing on as if nothing was the matter, and a great thundering wave coming in towards him ready to swallow him up alive; but as he could not see it, he did not fear it.

The jet motors came to life and the Sky Queen rose above the thundering wave of debris.

Through a whistling cloud of arrows they plowed to break like a thundering wave on the bristling wall of spears and shields.

There's a beach for every taste and time of day - from Olas Altas on the south, where crosscurrents smash together creating thundering waves favored by surfers around dawn, to lonely, shell-strewn Cerritos on the north - the perfect place to wander until sunset.

She switched off the radio, buzzed down all the car windows so she could hear the thundering waves break over the huge rocks below her.

The American journalist John Reed described the man who appeared at about 8:40 pm to "a thundering wave of cheers":