But when the smoke had cleared and the noise of it had died down in his ribs the blacksmith looked up to discover that the tiger was on its feet and moving swiftly to the frozen center of the pond, undeterred by the ice and the men and the sound of the gunshot.
The deafening noise had scared off elephants, giraffes and other wild animals, he said.
Ms Tyrrell told the court that the horse had not misbehaved on the day of the fair and he had not reacted to the noise of children playing or dogs barking.
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Defence QC William Norris, suggested the couple's accounts of unsettling noise from the turbines had been "exaggerated, inconsistent and unreasonable".
The campaigners said noise from the dual carriageway had been a problem since it was built in 1998 and efforts to improve it had so far failed.
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Since receiving the order to reduce noise, the sisters said they had removed a number of the larger noisy dogs and had changed its policy to only re-home small dogs.
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Overall, nearly 700 people, or 13.2 percent of the sample, had noise-induced hearing loss in Djalilian's study.
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The noise that the tiger had made: a sound like a tree breaking.
Razorlight and the Coral didn't disappoint either, but everyone at the Millennium Stadium's Noise and Confusion gig had come to see the headlining act, Oasis.
He was alone and he was hungry, and that hunger, coupled with the thunderous noise of bombardment, had burned in him a kind of awareness of his own death, an imminent and innate knowledge that he could neither dismiss nor accept.
It went on to say that the couple had not asked for a Noise Abatement Notice to be issued and had "never intended to cause any offence to the local community or any members of it".
The defendant said she had complained to Ms Shiers about noise in the past but denied arguing about the pushchair, and said they were friends at the time of the fire.
The council said it had had nine letters of objection, including complaints from the South Hill Residents Association that the new pier would obscure the sea view, the extra height would mean it overlooks houses and it had the potential to create extra noise.
In the early years of the 20th century, by way of contrast, New York had one of the most vigorous Noise Abatement campaigns in the world.
The Lumia and iPhone may look like they offer on-par image quality, but the latter device had more than its fair share of noise output, while the shot from Nokia's phone was much cleaner.
Somehow, amid all the noise and houseguests, no one had picked up on it till then.
"We don't want to be in a position where we are upsetting people who live near to the venue and we weren't aware there were issues until we had the letter on Saturday about the noise abatement notice being issued, " said Kevin.
Johnson and Bird were iconic figures throughout the 1980s, when they combined to win eight NBA titles (Johnson with the Los Angeles Lakers, Bird with the Boston Celtics) and resuscitated a league that had become more or less background noise by the end of the '70s.
The only real flareup occurred when McKeon had to suspend the session briefly owing to the noise of protesters in the hall.
One time, my mother was emptying out a load of laundry into the washing machine, and she heard this strange noise and looked and saw that my father had taken the clarinet apart piece by piece and hid it in the dirty laundry.
Denby resident Phil Butt, 43, said the problem with noise was because the ramp was metal and hollow, but the council had fixed that by adding a foam padding.
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Its scientific committee said low-frequency ambient marine noise levels had increased in the northern hemisphere by two orders of magnitude over the last 60 years.
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One of the biggest complaints we've had with the ContourHD line of cameras has been excessive wind noise at speed and, while the 1080p addressed that somewhat by allowing for reduced microphone sensitivity, it's still far more intrusive than on the Hero.
Smith confessed there had been a noise, but said he thought it had hit his thumb on the handle.
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Specifically, I feel morally authorized to spend an entire year blasting the Red Hot Chili Peppers at maximum volume out of really cheap car-stereo speakers, the ones equipped with chintzy mega-bass, to make up for the 20 years of noise pollution I've had to endure.
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In the open-wheel race cars I had driven previously, wind buffets your helmet violently, and the noise is deafening--nothing relaxing about it.
The rest of these attacks are white noise to most swing voters, and they haven't had much impact, except in the hypersensitive political fishbowl of Washington, D.
Mrs Holland said she was aware of a number of residents that had moved from Gladstone Road because the noise levels were so unbearable.
She said concerns over increased noise, pollution and disruption to the surrounding area had not been addressed and suggested that a new runway would not be long enough to accommodate new, larger planes and would be full "within a few years".
Some residents had protested against the plans, fearing extra noise, traffic and health issues.
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