The harsh sounds of the brass instruments as they blew their trumpet–blasts thus in our ears seemed vastly inappropriate.
It was blowing great guns from the west, and the blasts of air, intermittent in their force, that came up through the flues were such that under other circumstances they would have annoyed me tremendously.
I have seen times when the blasts of hot air from my furnace have blown one of my poems off my table across the room.
The catch is announced by loud blasts on the conch, and the canoes are received with the same noise of triumph as when they brought back bodies for the cannibal ovens.
The whole company now went back to the town with blasts of the trumpet-shells and a peculiar hooting of the men.
Chill blasts shake down the leaves, and warm'd anew By vernal airs the grove puts forth again: Age after age, so man is born and dies.
With horrid blasts my soul they shake, With storms of blasphemies and lies.
The barrenness which blastsfertile soil is painted in language largely borrowed from Isaiah.
She was lying listening for him now in the twilight gloom amidst the blasts of that shrieking wind.
It was difficult to hear each other speak; the blastshowled about their ears perpetually, and the sharp sleet stung their faces.
Now the keen blasts and grinding frosts had done their work, and they began to grow in the tearful prime.
These things were all firing at the hardest pace, and the earth was shaken with their blasts of fire.
They flew high, in flights of six, or singly at a swift pace, and beneath their planes our shells were in flight from heavy howitzers and long-muzzled guns whose fire swept our with blasts of air and smashed against one's ears.
On the right they and their neighbours at once came under blasts of fire from five machine-guns in a strong point, and under a hostile barrage-fire that was frightful in its intensity They could not make much headway.
They were faced at once by blasts of machine-gun fire, and although our artillery barrage crashed across the field some of the German strong points were still held in force.
Her slowly turning body was not far away; it was as if they two hung suspended in air, while frightful blasts of whatever gas filled this space whipped and shrieked past and wrapped them round with a terrific pressure.
But, as the whipping wings drove whirling blasts of violet light back upon him he could find nothing of comfort in the thought that some different experience still lay ahead.
Slowly the blasts diminished; the pressure relaxed; gradually the sense of falling passed away, and with this there came a glimpse of light.
Soon after the ship was first hit the master stopped her, hoisted the international code signal indicating that she surrendered, and blew two blasts on his whistle.
In his wild awa-drinking revels the god terrified Umi and his people by sounding nightly blasts with the conch.
Ghostly and drear the walls of Waipio 10 At the endless blasts of Kiha-pú.
With which he blasts all rhyming men: His goose-quill must not with him go To persecute the bards below.
It conducts you among crags and ravines, among clouds and tempests, now sheltering you under a forest of oaks and pines, now exposing you to the furious blasts that howl along the ridges.
If the scenes we have described are stern and forbidding in summer, how much more so are they in winter, when icy blasts blow through the canons, and masses of snow cover the ground.
Sheltered from the blasts to which the lower plains are exposed, these parks enjoy an equable climate; and old hunters, who have camped in them for many seasons, describe life there as an earthly paradise.
The trumpets sounded, blew an alarm, and sounded three blasts for every standard.
Rabbi Judah said, “there were threeblasts for every tribe.
The order of blowing the trumpet is, three blasts blown thrice.
In fact, with all my memories of Patagonia are closely associated, as one of the most prominent peculiarities of its landscapes, the fiercely cold but exhilarating blasts of that same wild west wind.
I had soon pitched my tent, with the assistance of a servant; had erected a hedge of cedar boughs to protect it from the cutting blasts of the coming winter; and, a few days afterwards, was surrounded with many objects of comfort.
From above him, through the clangor of the cars, came the four blasts of the steam whistle.
The steam whistle, which continued to roar, maintained the single, separated blastsof a ship still seaworthy and able to steer and even to give assistance.
Corvet stopped, drew up his shoulders, and stood staring out toward the lake, as the signal blasts of distress boomed and boomed again.
The old man was hearing blasts which were not blown!
At midnight, Father, to westward of the Foxes, we heard the four blasts of a steamer in distress--the four long blasts which have sounded in my soul ever since!
A siren swelled and shrieked, died away wailing, shrieked louder and stopped; the four blasts blew again, and the siren wailed in answer.
But now, as he listened to the blasts which seemed to have grown more desperate, this profoundly affected Corvet.
Dimly, far away, deafened out by the clangor, the steam whistle of Number 25 was blowing the four long blasts of distress; Alan heard the sound now and then with indifferent wonder.
The Richardson heard four blasts of a steam whistle about an hour ago when she was opposite the Manitous.
Our vertical blasts strike upon the other ship; they are almost neutralized.
He dropped to the red surface held close beneath, while the cold gripped him and the whirling blasts of air tore at him.
He blasts out a hole by condensing the rock to a pinch of yellow powder.
It was the middle of November, and cold blasts swept through the mountains.
The ground was covered with snow, and freezing blasts swept the fields.
And here his martial bands made hill and vale reverberate the bugle blasts of victory.
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