As an illustration of this belief it is related that a Japanese who witnessed the eruption of Krakatoa, when the heavens were covered with blackness and kindled with intermitting flashes and the earth shaken by the detonations, and when all others, thinking the end of the world had come, were swooning with extreme fear, viewed it without a tremor as a very sublime but illusory spectacle.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
It jarred on the duller roar of the river in intermittent detonations as each heavy mass swept down.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
If no cart was passing she could just hear the muffled detonations.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions