It shuddered to a fierce crescendo; then wavered into echoes.

The fierce crescendo of The Shadow's laugh, threatening prompt pursuit, was anything but music to the fleeing crime ace.

Sardonic, that cry rose to a fierce crescendo, then shuddered into echoes that seemed to answer from every side.

With that double blast, stumbling men heard a laugh that rose in a fierce crescendo.

No longer repressed, those eerie tones rose to fierce crescendo.

Eerily, it broke with a fierce crescendo.

Rising to fierce crescendo, the mockery flung its challenge in no doubtful terms.

Rising in a fierce crescendo, the mockery spelled doom to men of crime.

Abruptly a loud crunch rang down the corridor, the noise growing, swelling, into a fierce, angry crescendo.

It was a laugh, loud and challenging, outlandish, shivering mirth that rose to a fierce crescendo.