"The Hill is full," boomed one of them, as more hopeful punters arrived to watch Murray serve for the first set, and he wasn't kidding.
He thanked the crowd before quieting them to deliver a sobering message of challenge and responsibility, his voice quavering at the beginning of the address, but soon returning to a fuller boom.
When her friend Ruth reminds her that the world is full of "boom-boom bellicosity" and no revolution, she says: "I know all that.
The passage of crowdfunding legislation in the U.S. coupled with the $1 billion acquisition offer of Instagram, signals the beginning of a full startup boom.
The Chinese market is "on full tilt — booming is an understatement these days," said John Bonnell, the director of Asia vehicle forecasting at J.D. Power & Associates.
Its full sound, booming bass and ability to handle the delicate strings of a violin wowed most of my co-workers.
Full toss - boom, over mid-wicket.
Another £31m leisure and business centre opened last year, though it is only around two-thirds full after a boom in creative industries failed to materialise.
It stands 19 feet off the ground, its gaping boom, full of insecticide to battle the aphids in soybean plants, jutting out 90 feet.
The Rabobank trio had been discreet as the chase intensified, and they profited to the full to give Boom the stage win from his Australian team-mate Michael Matthews, with Cavendish an annoyed man in fifth behind the Sky pairing of Geraint Thomas and Steve Cummings.
