And presently, in its place, came the soft, pleasant drone and hum of many smoothly-working motors and propellers.
The air was filled with the roar, the drone and the hum of many motors; and in this sea of sound the reverberations of the distant guns were, for the time being, completely lost.
The drone of bees and the carol of birds are naturally an incessant accompaniment to my toil--at least, in these spring and summer months.
And there the two sat, keeping up that gentledrone of industry which I have come to think of as a note of womanhood, like the hum of a bee or the purr of a cat or the call of a bird.
Suddenly they became conscious of the sound of much shouting amongst the native crew, and at the same time the drone of the paddle-wheels ceased.
When the hony waxeth ripe, then are the Drone Bées driuen forth, and the kinde also of these are onely séene abroade in the Spring time.
Of the vnperfect Bees, which men properly name Drone Bees.
Palladius writeth, that the swarmes be increased in the moneth of May, and that in the outmost sides of the combes be the drone Bées bred, which ought to be killed, in that those do muche disquiet the rest of the swarme.
If these want honny at anye time, then doe they eyther kill, or driue quite away the drone Bées.
While the Englishmen were taking stock of all this, they heard the drone of an aeroplane approaching.
But the men had no sooner re-entered the shed than its drone was heard again.
Take me up--" Then the slow drone of the elevator, the three steps to the door, which swung open at the impetus of his knock.
Oh--" On the station platform other prospective passengers were beginning to turn and stare; the droneof the train was audible, it increased to a clamor.
The drone of the waves lashing upon the rocks mingled with the melody.
The breath and drone and cooing of high summer were not for long a sedative to her excited nerves.
The drone of the engine ceased and little spurts of dust shot up from the landing wheels as the young aviator at the helm of the beautiful craft applied his brakes, threw out the spark and cut off the engine.
The silence now became complete, save for the stamping of the impatient horses and the drone of insects in the woods and grass.
The insects began todrone again, and once more mosquitoes made life miserable.
I hear thedrone of the bees in the vines at Verney Manor.
There was no sound save the wash of the waters below them, the sighing of the wind, the drone of the cicadas in the trees.
The air was full of subdued sound--the distant hum of voices from the fields of maize and tobacco, the faint clink of iron from the smithy, the wash and lap of the water, the drone of bees from the hives beneath the eaves of the house.
Let us have frankness, and if we have no feelings on a subject, let us remain silent rather than echo that drone in the hive of modern thought, the "authority in art.
Silently the Mohawk came down till it was not more than five hundred feet above its unsuspecting prey, the loud drone of whose engine came clearly on the air.
In the silence, the drone of feeding poultry came from the back-yard, and the sleepy breathing of the big collie on the steps sounded plainly through the room.
Through the open window came the ceaseless drone of the shifting multitude on the street below.
There were a few swift motions, a pop distinctly heard above the drone of the orchestra.
The drone of the presses made the floor under my feet quiver, and the whole building vibrated as if the earth itself had trembled.
The drone of the presses continued to make itself felt like the quiver of a suppressed emotion.
I had many hours of thought before I could decide when my voice was not even impaired, to give up my life's work and be a drone in the hive.
Twelve long years I have borne this unhappy condition of things, yet I have not been a dronein the hive of busy humanity.
Far from musing by yourself, you can at best but follow in the wake of the crowd, with the drone of an endless story from the lips of a stupid guide in your ears, bringing only confusion and weariness.
From behind us there came flashes so dazzling that we could not bear to look at them, and great blasts of air and thunder-claps that seemed to strike our ears with colossal hammers and make them drone intolerably.
For a long while we lay awake, straining our ears to catch the sound of firing or the drone of German propellers.
A crack ship with a crack crew and officers, remember; for the best of ships is but a drone unless well managed.
Not even a drone, indeed; for a drone is a most duty-full bee, and a most respectable member of the apiarian republic.
Often have I watched my drone flies and shown them to my friends, who never fail to be interested, and pronounce them remarkably curious creatures.
She was alone in the afternoon, in the hush of nature, looking over the combe, listening to the rustle of the trees, hearing the bees drone homeward.
The organ was played with a curious drone in it, almost like that of the primitive bagpipe.
