Word: roare
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...green lane of Kentucky turf under a gold-and-blue sky. With one word more he would send them away, down the green lane, around a white-fenced circle for a mile and a quarter. The 75,000 turbulent shadows packed along the stretch would roar for two minutes, and one more Kentucky Derby would be over. Two minutes and a few seconds - two minutes for which the jockeys had trained for months, for which the owners had planned for years, for which the horses had been groomed all their lives...
...Race. "They'r-r-re OFF!"... The long roar thundered like a wave, grumbled like a rising sea-surge through the crowd down the long stretch. The stands seemed to sway, to swell with it; hats and parasols and a foam of faces rose, hesitated for an instant on the top of the wave, settled slowly down into a whisperless silence. The horses moved down the stretch...
...Pompey. Recollection swerved almost to the outside rail but he was behind the field and there was no interference. They broke at the turn; the thud of their racing-plates sounded incredibly loud, a prolonged piratical drum-roll, in the silence that replaced the crowd's first roar...
...That, sir, sounds like the roar of a wild beast, not the utterance of a man. That sounds like the voice of hell turned loose into the wholesome atmosphere of the earth...
...slag down upon them, they pushed off from shore in their outrigger canoes, abandoning their efforts to placate the goddess Pele* with offerings of burned pig, herbs, liquor and prayers. Passengers on a steamship had a gorgeous sight of a white-hot avalanche plunging into the sea with a roar like a host of locomotives belching blood-colored smoke and towering geysers of steam...