"Earsplitting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... With a screaming, earsplitting roar, a white cloud swept from the direction of the boiler house at the clustering forms on the ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... and set it ablaze. It burned furiously, with a very alarming sputter, bullets flying everywhere, although their velocity was not great. They were flying over our heads and we had to go underground. Several about the fire got rather badly wounded. When fully alight the noise was the most earsplitting I ever heard, not that it was so very loud, but there was something painful about it. This pile was composed of cartridges taken off our own dead and wounded, and those picked up about the trenches, where a sinful waste goes on, although I believe the big half was captured Turkish ...
— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson |
