They approached the pole cautiously, and were rewarded by the hiss and roar of ice melting into water which burst into steam under a ray.
Now the hiss of air, and the quickening of heat crept through it.
With my lovely goose beginning just to spread his skin a little, and hiss sweetly at the fire, up I ran, with resolution not to ferry anybody, but to cook my goose aright.
The ring of black rocks received its weight, and leaped like a boiling caldron, while the stormy waters rose into a hiss and heap of steam.
They did not hear the long, low hiss of the python under the shrubs.
He felt the hypocrisy of those tones, and they sounded in his ear like the suppressed hiss of a deadly serpent.
Every good thing is gone into dens and holes, and every vile thing that can hiss and spit and sting is crawling abroad.
Again and again the worldly, almost scoffing, tone of the superior to whom he has been confessing sounds like the hiss of a serpent in his ear.
A few minutes later he crept back to them, a soft hiss on his lips.
Sometime am I All wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.
With a shrill hiss the arrow sped--the poisoned arrow.
In the shadowy gloom his imagination, run riot, peopled every rock with lurking stealthy enemies--in every sound he seemed to hear the hiss of the deadly missiles.
He peered down into the gloom but could see nothing, hear nothing but the hiss of rain.
The sharp, slowly dwindling hiss of quenched flame which followed completely died out before she spoke.
The instant he heard the angry hiss he crouched low against the trunk, thankful that the reptile had chosen a branch on the other side.
Wulf flung his first bucketful at it, and it answered with a hiss like a snarling curse, and showed a red-starred black blotch amid the crawling yellow flames.
So they paddled across to the spit, which they could not well miss, and set off on foot for the point, steering by the sullen lap and hiss of the waves as they stole softly up out of the fog on their left hand.
The sharp hiss the steel runners made was louder, the wind began to scream, and she got something of a shock when she cautiously looked up.
His voice was drowned by the rattle of chain and hiss of steam, but the uproar began to die away and the sharp clatter of small engines changed to spasmodic jars.
Grace thought that for some yards they traveled through the air, and then the hiss of the runners that had suddenly stopped became a scream.
Three of the theatres have got up a plot," continued the manager; "they will even hiss the piece, but I have made arrangements to defeat their kind intentions.
Birds of gay plumage flitted before us from bough to bough; and a huge snake, which had been coiled round a branch, giving a hiss at us, went off among the underwood into the depths of the forest.
The canoes glided rapidly down the stream, making the water hiss and bubble under their bows.
Such a small amount of water only made the flames hiss and the logs steam.
With a long hiss he started after the two children, and many of his flock kept right behind their leader.
But as the geese waddled nearer the old gander began to wiggle his head from side to side and to hiss softly.
He had scarcely mounted, when a strange, seething hiss resounded from one side of the street, and above their heads.
Alger Hiss (a CFR member who was later identified as a Soviet spy) was closely tied in with the IPR during his long and influential career in government service.
Some CFR members were later identified as Soviet espionage agents: for example, Alger Hiss and Lauchlin Currie.
Hiss became a trustee of the IPR after his resignation from the State Department.
Johnson, an old friend and former associate of Alger Hiss in the State Department, who succeeded Hiss as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and still holds that position; Professor Robert R.
Johnson (old friend of Alger Hiss, who succeeded Hiss as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) is a member of the Executive Committee of the FPA-WAC, and also a member of the CFR.
The secret information which Hiss delivered to a Soviet spy ring in the 1930's kept the Soviets apprised of American activity in the Far East.
Jem uttered a loud hiss as he drew his breath, and Ramsden heard it and stopped.
A continuous roar and hiss followed as the billow swept round, filled up the dark abyss, and sent the white water gleaming up almost into the doorway.
The roaring of the gale, too, and the angry hiss of the storm-lashed waters, contributed their quota to the feeling of awe with which we looked abroad from our pigmy ark.
In the midst of his thought the drone of his own distant mills came to him through the steady hiss of the rain.
It grew louder, and into the hiss came a hoarse tone, like a harsh voice trying to bellow through the rushing steam.
With a hissthe snake raised its head, its diamond-like eyes shining like twin stars.
With a fierce hiss it came for the rock and disappeared underneath, out of the range of their vision.
Phenician altars reek with human gore, Gods hiss from caverns or in cages roar, Nile pours from heaven a tutelary flood, And gardens grow the vegetable god.
But where the sheeted flames thro Charlestown roar, And lashing waves hiss round the burning shore, Thro the deep folding fires dread Bunker's height Thunders o'er all and shows a field of fight.
The dark fell, and by the light of the great lantern at their prow they saw the white seas hiss past as they drove shorewards beneath bare masts.
Then with a hissof disappointed rage the fedai came at them.
Long ago he hass either caught hiss man or hiss man hass got away, und he iss returning.
But the man hass escaped with hiss spoil, whatefer it iss, und you only, Hendrik, know what it iss.
Through the gurgle and hiss of the water, sounding dully above the humming in his ears and the roar of the blood in his tired brain, came the clear voice again: "Steady now!
Not a sound except the hiss and splash of the surf, which, because of a week of calms and light winds, was low even for that time of year--early June.
She heard an indrawn hiss behind her chair, and the next instant an exclamation from Mabel.
She described the shadow, the hissof sound, and the crash.
