A huge shell from the British flagship dropped squarely aboard the Scharnhorst and exploded with a deafening detonation.

Behind them roared a deafening detonation.

There was a flare of colored lights, a deafening detonation-andhe felt himself knocked breathless against a wall.

But the words were again lost amid the lashing, deafening detonation, which was prolonged with the continuous violence of a fusillade.

There was a flashing flame of fire as the pistol was discharged and a deafening detonation that seemed to split his brain.

The awful noise of the bombardment, lying so low on our heads, and the deafening detonations of the shells disarrayed all my thoughts.

Deafening detonations from the interior preceded this appearance, and a lofty white pennant was seen to rise from the summit of the volcano.