He went to his quarters at Company House, downed a spaceship-captain's-size drink of honey-rum, and slept until 1600. As he dressed and shaved, he could hear, through the open window, the slow sputter of small-arms' fire, punctuated by the occasional whump-whump-whump of 40-mm auto-cannon or the hammering of a machine-gun.
"Uller Uprising"
Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
I jest cut loose at them two green eyes a-burnin' in the brush and whump!
"The Ridin' Kid from Powder River"
Henry Herbert Knibbs