And six guttering candles were about her, and woman droned their prayers with a droning as of bees.
And six guttering candles were about her, and women droned their prayers with a droning as of bees.
Twelve brave men droned the grace; But with instinctive tact, in courtesy to their Host, Omitted God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, And to the God of Battles raised their humble prayers.
He began in Urdu the tale of the Lord Buddha, but, borne by his own thoughts, slid into Tibetan and long-droned texts from a Chinese book of the Buddha's life.
The lama backed his order by some droned Chinese quotation which Kim took for a charm.
The lama, seeing the flash of the metal, droned a blessing.
And so they droned on, those three wiseacres--two oldish gentlemen and a middle-aged man, thinking they could change or check or dam the course of true love.
The talk droned on into morning, through the forenoon, into the night, past midnight, with the thread taken from one man sinking to sleep by another waking up, but it never stopped.
In the wagons men and women were dancing, bottles were jigging round, and merrily squealed the fifes, moaned the shawms, beat the drums and droned the bagpipes.
Others passed back into the fields where droned the protesting bees, or where here and there a wide tree offered shelter.
Sleepy reporters yawned at the press tables as the clerk droned out his sing-song, "An act entitled an act conferring charter rights upon the Hemlock Pipe Line Company of Kentucky.
Now as the clerk droned through the mass of unfinished matters that burdened the schedule, the clock stood at ten in the evening, and a spirit of disordered peevishness proclaimed itself in the chamber.
Doctor Bates's admirable sermons had droned on over his head like the dreamy humming of bees in a summer day.
The broad Scots tongue of Taggart dronedthe bagpipe-note as of old.
It taught Patrine Saxham, the woman of limitations, exactly what to do at the moment when the great shell droned down to ground.
Ned ate a little lunch and then smoked and stared at the fire while the wind droned and blustered without ceasing, and occasionally a cross gust sent the rain drops softly pattering on the panes.
The melancholy thrumming of the telegraph wires droned by his side all the while, and as this dirge waxed for the moment as they passed each post, his eye would glance grimly at those gaunt poles.
The perfume of violets and hyacinths, and of myriads of opening buds seemed shed by the moon with her silvery rays through the soft, dewy air; a few nocturnal insects droned hither and thither, and "drowsy tinklings lulled the distant folds.
But even the mayor of Paradise grew tired of asking questions in time; the bees droned among the flowers, the low murmur of the sea stole in on our ears, the river softly lapped the quay.
Inexorably the voicedroned on, repeating the admonition over and over.
The shabby tin clock had droned through thirty minutes since Rutton had spoken his last word.
The dew had dried from the long, keen blades of the Indian corn; the grasshoppers dronedamong them.
The grasshoppers droned in the leaves an accompaniment to the whirr of her wheel.
Each hour was like a great circle swollen with heavy air, and it droned and buzzed into an eternity.
At last came Point Christensen and a descent; sleep and then quick, decisive action; and again the amphibian rose, heavily loaded now, and droned on toward the ice and the cold bleak skies of the far north.
Steadily and low the electric motor droned in the ears of the watchful pilot, and the stubby propeller's blades flashed round in a blur of speed between the slightly slanted rudders.
The hours droned on, Martie, moving noiselessly about, and touching the switch that suddenly lighted the dim big room, paused at the window to look down upon Monroe.
Henny, the coloured maid, droned and laughed with friends of her own in the kitchen.
Bees once more droned overhead, and wasps and dragon-flies.
A bee droned into the thin red cloud of dust, lazily and heavily flying back toward the hive.
Bees droned overhead in flight less preoccupied and worried than elsewhere flitting from blossom to blossom of the tremendous water-lilies, loading their crops with honey and the bristles of their legs with yellow pollen.
The clouds toward the west were taking on a dull-red hue, which was the nearest to a sunset that was ever seen in the world of Burl's experience, when a bumble bee droned heavily over their heads, making for its hive.
Heavily, I imagine, since for some time a strange booming noise droned continuously in my ears before it waked me.
A few heavy-winged insects, awaking from the frost of the night, dronedover the piles of crushed winesaps, and she heard the sound as though it came to her across a distance of forty years.
For an hour her voice droned steadily in the firelight, while Molly, with her head against Mrs. Gay's knee, looked through the casement window to where the October roses bloomed and dropped in the squares of the Italian garden.
This eccentric song Brooke droned out in nasal tones and with a lachrymose whine to the strangest tune that ever was heard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "droned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
