She drew her hand away from his and leaned back against the cushions and was silent for a while, listening to the hum of the streets and the soft rustle of the night wind as it blew in through the open windows and fanned her face.
So, in like manner, on October 16, I passed under an old oak almost hidden by ivy, and paused to listen to the loud hum made by the insects that came to the ivy blossom.
In the early summer the lime trees flower, and are then visited by busy swarms of bees, causing a hum in the air overhead.
As he swung Helen around, the low hum of voices inside the saloon suddenly rose to sharp, hoarse roars, accompanied by a scuffling of feet and crashing of violently sliding chairs or tables.
The breeze was slow, languorous, fragrant, and it brought the low hum of the murmuring waterfall, like a melody of bees.
The horses were not moving around; the moan of night wind had grown fainter; the lowhum of insects was dying away; even the tinkle of the brook had diminished.
A single female water-carrier was at the well, waiting for the element to filter into its basin, in order to fill her buckets, while her ear listened in dull attention to the hum of the moving crowd without.
But when the boat of Antonio also swept ahead, there arose such a hum of voices as escapes a throng when a sudden and violent change of feeling is produced in their wayward sentiments.
Their busy hummakes an island of summer sound in the midst of the silent ebbing tide of winter.
Migul slid the door open, letting in the hum and buzz of the machinery outside.
A faint vibration became noticeable; they suddenly felt very heavy; and to the accompaniment of a low but rising hum they saw one wall of their room begin to glow with a beautiful cherry color.
In his hands he carried a strange piece of apparatus which he held to Jim's wrist while it emitted a coarse vibratory hum that whined slowly up in pitch until it passed the range of hearing.
He felt something being attached to his wrists; heard a coarse hum that quickly rose in pitch until it passed the range of hearing.
There were smiles on almost every face; and a hum of low but joyous greetings was heard without, till the loud voice of the priest, reciting the Creed, hushed every other.
This recurring message, with its answer, was all the communication he had with Bonaparte; and the hum and murmur from the streets were all that he knew of Paris.
When she did not talk she would hum or sing at the top of her absurd voice the then popular American song "Climbing Up the Golden Stairs.
Often, while bent upon her housework, my mother would hum some of the songs of the famous wedding bard, Eliakim Zunzer, who later emigrated to America.
As I looked at him it seemed to me as though the music, the thunderous clatter of feet, and the hum of voices all came from the fiery rhythm of his arm Finally, I discovered Miss Tevkin.
Yet the community of this feeling, far from arousing mutual jealousy in us, seemed to strengthen the ties of our friendship We would hum her songs in duet, recite her lines, compare notes on our dreams of happiness with her.
He drew a sharp quick breath--the hum of the gay voices around him was more meaningless to his ears than the sound of the sea breaking on the beach below.
The hum of conversation grew louder than ever--and to Thelma's surprise Lady Winsleigh seated herself by her and began to converse.
There was a short silence, only broken by the hum of the wheel.
Through the open door came the many noises of the summer night, the incessant hum of insects, the plaintive cry of the whippoorwill, the strident chorus of the frogs in the pond back of the bam.
The heat, the drowsy, shrill hum of the crickets and the muffled, monotonous roar of the sea had a soothing influence and Bartlett let his book fall from his hands and slept, stretched at ease in the steamer chair.
The hum of talk and laughter grew as the crowd grew, good-natured, meaningless chatter.
The organ's hum grew softer, and the censers swung with a silvery tinkling of their slender chains, releasing a cloudlet of white smoke, which unrolled in lacelike folds.
He had felt but a quivering behind him, that confused hum of life, which he had faintly heard since morning when the sun, in the midst of his mass, had entered the church by the shattered windows.
At that early hour, amid all the travail of nature's growth, there was a hum of vivifying warmth, and the very rocks quivered as with a long and silent effort.
Mal chegares á foz do claro Téjo, Apenas elle vir o teu semblante Dará no léme do baixel hum beijo.
Por fazer pensar a todos No seu lizo centro escreve Hum letreiro, que pergunta: Este espaço a quem se deve?
To say nothing of the hum and clatter of such a multitude of barbarians, the incessant exertions of a horrid band of native musicians rendered their own voices inaudible.
The woods rang with the song of the nightbirds, and the hum of the insects, which continued to salute them with little intermission till about ten o'clock at night, when they entered Laatoo, a large and pleasant town.
They erected their huts on the banks of the river, which in a short time resembled a village, and for the first time, the busy hum of trade was heard in the interior of Africa.
Aqui se deve advertir hum raro effeito da Providencia divina, e he que tendo sahido pouco tempo antes da dita Villa para restituirse a Valença, o Procurador do Convento do Soccorro da Ordem de S.
The aggregation of the sound of prayer, rising all over the city, produces a vast and solemn hum of harmony, which strangely moves the spirit.
There was a few moments' silence, and then a hum of subdued voices as a man rose up; while I could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw it was Boone.
The sight of the close-packed multitude and the hum of many voices helped to hold in check my nervous restlessness.
