earthquake-rumble

Updated: July 22, 2025

For the last few years the serenity of his ponderings had been disturbed by the noise of the motor-bus; while to his keen ears there came the earthquake-rumble, far off, of the train in the tube, going down Sloane Street; and when he heard of the world above his head was not to its credit.

Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany - Tales of Wonder