1.   It arrived not with the resounding boom expected from a hammer of justice, but in dead silence.

2.   It was a couple of hours of mood and buildup, leading up to three resounding booms.

3.   About a half-dozen people remained on the street near a Grozny bread stand as the shelling and fighting raged around them and amid the resounding booms of artillery.

4.   Six resounding booms followed, causing horses grazing near the schoolhouse to run in circles.

5.   The whole area of the Gaza harbour was rocked by a resounding boom as two shelling sorties were apparently carried out, security sources said.

6.   The whole area was rocked by a resounding boom as two shelling sorties were apparently carried out.