The answer was almost inaudibleand was followed by a long pause.
Light footsteps drew near, almost inaudible on the soft forest soil; the bushes rustled as if brushed by a silken garment, and parted; a female figure emerged noiselessly and stopped short, fixing an intent look upon the young dreamer.
Octavius was grumbling some reply inaudibleto Champney.
The Colonel's reply was partly inaudible owing to a sudden outbreak of altercation among the boys in the room below.
The creaking, almost inaudible at its loudest, receded farther up--and silence fell.
There was such a creaking and groaning and rattling, and such an ominous shaking throughout the crazy edifice, that the loudest rap would have been inaudible to those within.
Many of this strange company wore foolscaps, and had little bells appended to their garments, tinkling with a silvery sound, responsive to the inaudible music of their gleesome spirits.
Pam asked, in an almost inaudible voice of sorrow and repentance.
Rodebush cut off his power, and through the crackling roar of tube noise an almost inaudible voice made itself heard.
As the Nevian turned toward the prisoner there was an almost inaudible hiss and a tiny jet of the frightful, outlawed stuff struck his open gills, just below his huge, conical head.
When they had asked me all they cared, they gathered together in a corner, apparently holding an inaudible conference on the results.
The ant professor of electricity met us at the city gate, and introduced me to the crowd with a few inaudible remarks, which were received in silence.
These they studied for a long time, with much inaudible consultation, as I judged by the motions of their antennae.
She fixed her eyes on him with an expression of boundless tenderness, and then lifted them to heaven with an imploring air, softly raising her arms, and her lips moving in inaudible prayer.
She murmured a few inaudible words, and slightly shrugged her shoulders.
The branches cracked and snapped, the dry leaves rustled hither and thither over the grass and in the underwood, and Johannes felt the draft from inaudible wing-strokes, and was conscious of the presence of invisible beings.
On looking round, he saw the tall, pale figure moving among the people with great, inaudible strides.
The little fellow grew as pale as death, his mouth dropped open, he pressed both hands upon his stomach, and from his trembling lips came the almost inaudible word: "Horrible!
But Dionysia seized his arm, and said in an almost inaudible voice,-- "Wait a moment.
Thus, to some observers, the sound remains inaudible throughout, however intently they may be listening.
It will be seen presently how the sound, from its very depth, was inaudible to many persons.
As a rule, they began as a low, almost inaudible rumble, gradually increasing in loudness, though to a very varying degree, and then gradually dying out after having lasted anything from 5 to 50 seconds.
Here Admiral Watson bent forward and said to Clive in an undertone, inaudible to the others: "I think we had better defer this.
Miss Merriman had been looking at him curiously, and she now turned to her mother and said something in a tone inaudible to Desmond.
But after a while she dropped her hands alongside her dress and gazing at Dolhanski with the look of an antelope at a lion, she asked in an almost inaudible voice: "Edward, perhaps it is already time?
While Haire perused the letter, the old Judge sauntered away, looking from time to time at the miniature, and muttering some low inaudible words as he went.
A few very energetic words, uttered so low as to be inaudible to all but Balfour himself, closed this address.
He was aware of a catch in her breathing, like an inaudible sob, but presently she spoke, quite steadily.
When he answered a question it was with the air of interrupting an inaudible tune he was whistling.
Fanny waited until the sound of Isabel's and the Major's voices became inaudible in the hall.
She caught a glint in his eye less like confusion than resentment, and saw a dilation of his nostrils which might have indicated not so much a sweet agitation as an inaudible snort.
He seemed to be explaining something at considerable length, and there were moments when he paused, and George guessed that his mother was speaking, but her voice must have been very low, for it was entirely inaudible to him.
He nodded his head in a smiling aside in response to the chorus of welcome from the porch, and went on conferring with the liveryman, who was speaking in a low, inaudible voice, but gesticulating earnestly.
I trust God will not forget my boy," were the almost inaudible words that came to her lips.
At the instant the almost inaudible rustling struck the ear of Deerfoot the Shawanoe, he caught sight of a rifle barrel as it was thrust among the undergrowth and aimed at him.
A tremendous cackling in rear rendered further orders inaudible as well as unnecessary, while the men stood aside from the opening to the gangway of planks.
No such thing," exclaimed Jock, with an inaudible growl between his teeth.
He bent over Bunny at parting, and whispered a few words that were inaudibleto Maud.
Saltash continued to swing his leg, his lips pursed to am inaudible whistle.
It rung out clearly now in mighty tones, at the sound of which all the former gentle breathings of her inward emotions died away in an inaudible whisper.
Then we did not know of the secret hidden in the ruins," said Elizabeth, in an almost inaudible tone.
He gave the outward evidences of dissatisfaction, but there was an undertone of triumph in his voice, inaudible to any ear but mine.
She counted her small fingers with aninaudible moving of the lips, and I watched her with the pleasure that one takes in watching a pretty child.
