They burst again and again during half an hour with tremendous crashes and smoke-clouds.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Her son came out of his laboratory when he heard the crashes of the carriage among the stones and holes of the village street, and he was ready at the door to help her down.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
A minute or two later, from a clump of trees close by, there came in rapid succession four splitting crashes and four invisible express-trains went screeching toward the German lines to explode, with the roar that scatters death, on a spot as far away and as invisible from me as Washington Square is from Grant's Tomb.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell