daunting
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His consternation, on finding it flee half open, may be easier imagined than described; especially, as on the door dunting to again, it being soople in the hinges, they both plainly heard a fistling within.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin
You auld besom you!" said he, dunting the floor with his rattan, "I see through you now; you think you'll get him put off on me.
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil
I quavered, and wondered if he heard my heart dunting against my ribs.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway
We were speedily together, the seven of us, and gathered in the hall, and listening with mouths open and hearts dunting, to the rapping that had no sign of ceasing.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil
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