The sky was all blue; the jolly wind blew loud and steady; the windmill-sails were spinning; and the willows over all the fen rippling and whitening like a field of corn.
Sir Oliver, with a loud scream, fell fainting on the rushes; while the knight, followed by Dick, dashed into the court and up the nearest corkscrew stair to the battlements.
Even as Dick entered, the loud chorus began to thunder in the vaulted roofs.
Several times they came and went; and then there was a loud jar of a key turning in a lock, followed by a considerable silence.
She fell silent suddenly, then burst into a loud laugh.
However loud the protest against this latest fad, it is doubtful if its effect is wholly harmful, for it at least introduced vigorous exercise and rhythmic movement into the midnight life of the city.
If you hear a loud noise--that'll be Melcher going broke.
The women chattered; the men raised loud voices; the birds fluttered and the peacocks shrieked.
Through the open window overlooking the alley came a sound of singing; two voices raised in doubtful harmony, one loud and strong, the other rasping, hoarse, and uncertain.
The cries of the forest rang in my ears, loud and insistent.
Just as they were pushing off, their attention was attracted by a loud howling.
When the captain saw the gold he was mightily civil, and spoke to Haddad-Ben-Ahab with a loud voice, perhaps thinking to make him hear was the way to make him understand.
As he concluded, with a loud bang the door of the vault flew open, and there in blue light stood Bluebeard in his blue uniform, waving his blue sword, and flashing his blue eyes round about!
It was the same in parish affairs; and the fame of Johnny's eloquence at vestries is loud to this day.
Loud was the laughter of the country round at Johnny Darbyshire's outwitting of the bailiff's, and desperate was their quest after him.
In Dublin I had often seen old women walking with erect heads and gaunt bodies, talking to themselves with loud voices, mad with drink and poverty, but they were different, they belonged to romance.
A certain Salvation Army captain probably pleased her, for if vociferous and loud of voice, he had much animation.
Haman proud, Served by thy slaves on bended knee, The heaven can speak in thunder loud And rend to dust both them and thee.
In the next scene the wanderer has reached the abysses of Erebus, "where, loud thundering, the flood of Cocytus pours its black wave into Acheron's tide.
He was roused from this pleasing anticipation by his irascible friend, Colonel Fitzwarren, who, without the slightest warning, flung a loud and defiant challenge across the table to Shere All.
It sounded loud in his voice, it showed in his looks.
They had expected the loud note of the Pathan war-cry to swell sonorously, and with intervals shorter and shorter until it became one menacing and continuous roar.
And then he stopped, for other voices broke suddenly in with loud and, as it seemed to Phillips, with fierce appeals.
They waited for a blow upon the door, the sound of the firing of a rifle or a loud voice calling upon them from the darkness.
The priest stood up erect upon the platform, and with a vibrating voice, now plaintive and conveying some strange sense of loneliness, now loud in praise, now humble in submission, he intoned the prayers.
She screamed, a loud shrill scream of terror, and even as she screamed, in the very midst of her terror, she saw that the hand was lowered, and that the threatening face smiled.
Then one evening there came a loud knocking at the door.
Then perch yourself on a twig and sing out loud and clear.
A few days later Isegrim paid the swine a second visit, but he had hardly crept into the pen when Whiteling set up a howl so loud and clear that all the household sprang out of bed to see what was the matter.
He hopped from branch to branch until he was in perfect safety, and then crowed loud and lustily to proclaim his escape.
Paralyzed with terror, they threw open the door and a fearful Form rushed in, crying in a loud voice, "Give me here the maiden, your second sister!
He carries things in his pockets to eat, and he makes the other children laugh, and he sits on the gravestones during service, and whistles loud enough to have to be hunted away by the sexton every Sunday.
Under similar circumstances, Lord Harry's delicate hand would have been just loud enough to be heard, and no more.
And I heard Mr. Arthur, while they were together here in the parlour, loud in blaming him for something that he had done.
And out of the lull, as if in answer to the woman's question, there came a loud cry--the shriek of a man in deadly peril.
Still posted at the head of the stairs, the doctor's wife heard Iris speaking; but the tone was not loud enough to make the words intelligible at that distance; neither was any other voice audible in reply.
They were sitting like this, wondering what next to play when, all at once, there came a loud jingle on the bell that was hung in a tree back of the tent.
After what seemed like many hours to the children, they suddenly heard loud shouts and calls.
There was the usual warming-up, a word or two of caution from the starter, and then his whistle blew loud and shrill.
Their footsteps sounded loud and queer in the big, vacant rooms.
He ran toward Sue, but before he reached her there was heard a loud barking, and a big, shaggy dog rushed down to the edge of the island.
The little boy was looking around for another stone, when he and Sue heard a loudbarking behind them, and up rushed Splash, their big dog.
As they reached the top of the stairs they heard behind them a loud banging noise.
His loud rap on the door of the tavern signalized more than a desire for rest in the weary travelers, for just then a cycle of their lives had ended.
Their food had its extra seasoning of merry jests and loud laughter.
Mr. Berry, who handled the liquors, kept himself in a genial stage of inebriation and sat in smiles and loud calico talking of gold mines and hidden treasure.
The Indians have left their imitators all over the West, but they only make a loud noise.
When it had been drunk the two preachers knelt in a corner of the room and Mr. Cartwright began to pray in a loud voice.
Could talk as loud as a bumble bee-- No, sirs "Honest!
I've often said I could marry any one half a mile erway if they would only talk as loud as I kin.
If this old wagon didn't talk so loud and would kind o' go on its tiptoes maybe we'd see him.
His jests, his loud laughter and his quaking circumference were the three outstanding factors in his popularity.
He carried a scarlet banner and was advertising in a loud voice the hour and place of a great land sale that evening.
This occasioned a loud hoarse laugh on the part of the farmer, and an astonished stare on the part of the shepherd.
Sir Frederick, in a loud whisper, the tone of which indicated that his angry feelings were suppressed with difficulty.
But a voice, as if issuing from the tomb of his deceased wife, called, in suchloud and harsh accents as awakened every echo in the vaulted chapel, "Forbear!
But they did not come, for, with a loud voice, the king told them to fall back, and went and felt the bodies of the men.
Their loud cries have often helped to guide home the mariner when caught in a fog.
We had read that the "Amens" of the early Christians could be heard at long distances, but we never attended a meeting where the ejaculations were so loud and fervent as they were here.
In spite, therefore, of the orders given in such loud and unpleasant tones by the grouse, we advanced quickly onwards and left those birds to rejoice the heart of any sportsman who might follow.
And tell me now what makes thee sing With voice so loud and free, While I am sad though I'm the King, Beside the river Dee!
At two o'clock in the morning we were wakened by the loud blowing of a horn, which heralded the approach of the mail-coach, and in another minute the trampling of horses' feet beneath our window announced its arrival.
Here the loud and savage barking of a dog brought out the shepherd's wife, who called the dog away from us, and the shepherd, who was having his breakfast, also made his appearance.
Even as he did so, a loud knocking at the principal entrance to his house awakened every echo within its walls.
Before I could make him any reply, for I felt that his observation had a good amount of truth in it, joined to its sarcasm the hanged man uttered a loud scream, and opened his eyes.
I cannot say, but I think that they did not; I heard them give a loud shout more than once when on this side of the wood.
The door was scarcely shut ere some tried to force it, and then a loud knocking came at the door.
Now, we'll pretend to give it up; let's all of us talk loud about going home.
There was a loud crash within the building, as of broken glass.
Loud cries now arose of "Down with the soldiers; down with the vampyre.
And a loud shout of triumph came from the mob as they viewed the progress of the flames, as they came roaring and tearing through the house doors and the windows.
At this moment, a loud shout as from a multitude of persons came upon their ears and Flora started from her seat in alarm.
Scarcely had these words escaped the lips of the old admiral than there arose a loud shout from the interior of the wood.
The mob made no retrogade movement, but still continued to press onwards, and in another moment a loud report rang through the house, and a smoke hung over the heads of the mob.
A loud howl added force to my advice, and a dozen stalwart hands banged at our frail barricade.
About an hour after De Retz put in an appearance loud shouts announced the coming of the prince.
