So as the shots grew closer, louder and louder, I could tell that my classmates and I couldn't all make it out of this one window.
Now, when you try to sleep, all you can hear outside is movement: closer, ever closer, louder, at first just one scurrying run – "a rabbit", you say to yourself, "a large fast dog" – and now it sounds like a storm is coming, a thousand booted feet opening and closing every door in the house.
Lightning hit, close and loud.
"This one was different — close and loud," Jecs said.
"They were very close, very loud.
I spent a long, cold night on an underinflated air mattress with only a thin sheet covering me, my sleep repeatedly interrupted by trumpeting elephants close by, louder than any Manhattan garbage truck.
The door was closed, with loud animated voices emanating from behind it.
A resident of central Hama who writes on Twitter as Free Syrian reported around 10 p.m. local time: "Gunfire getting closer and louder.
Females will head for long calls (up to 2 seconds) heard through a loudspeaker, even if the short calls are closer and louder, says behavioral biologist H. Carl Gerhardt from the University of Missouri, Columbia.
The roar was so close and so loud I thought Gaillard was having me on.
