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Today semis are thundering along new dirt roads, heavy bulldozers are digging trenches for pipelines, overhead power lines are crisscrossing the valley, and drilling rigs are going up like mushrooms after a spring rain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two days later, Hubert Grosse and I are thundering over Patagonia in the back of his $1.2 million helicopter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally are thundering along at 79 m.p.h., the top speed allowed this train.

From Time Magazine Archive

August 24th.—In both Houses of Congress they are thundering away at Gen. Winder’s Provost Marshal and his Plug Ugly alien policemen.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

There are noises, however, which cannot be thus cheaply disposed of, and among them are thundering whacks on the walls of rooms, which continue in spite of all efforts to detect imposture. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew