Sometimes I was behind the rest of the company, and lost the grace of laughing by delay, and sometimes, when I began at the right time, was deficient in loudnessor in length.
In mere loudness the vocal organs are comparatively relaxed--the intensity of sound being produced by the violent discharge of a great volume of air from the lungs.
The Loud Concrete= is simply the equable concrete uttered with greater fulness of breath and loudness of tone.
Hence, strongly suppressed utterance in impure vocality, rather than mere loudness in pure vocality, is the appropriate expression for all the intenser passions.
As it befits a chest tone rather than a head tone, it is natural to utterances in medium and low pitch; but it must not be confounded with low pitch simply, nor must its characteristic fulness be taken for loudness simply.
Excessive loudness alone is sufficient to overpower the soul, to suspend its action, and to fill it with terror.
The greater force or loudness which causes the accented syllable to occupy more time than any other, is in itself something different from time.
Willems, with an unexpected loudness that caused Babalatchi to start nervously.
As soon as she removed her hand he hastened to speak, so insupportable to him was that stillness perfect and absolute in which his thoughts seemed to ring with the loudnessof shouts.
Far away, in the middle of the river, a fish would leap now and then with a short splash, the very loudness of which measured the profundity of the overpowering silence that swallowed up the sharp sound suddenly.
By a supreme effort, the next words were uttered without a blur and with a loudnessthat chased itself about the room.
She felt that she was watched by the unseen, and the loudness of her own movements shocked her, but she worked on, using the scissors stealthily and starting if a coal fell in the grate.
The loudness of her tones frightened her, however; she might have woke Jeanne, and she bent down over the bed.
Astounded at the loudness of her own voice breaking upon the stillness which ensued, she lapsed into silence.
The measure of Mr. Bashwood's constitutional timidity seemed to be filled to the brim by the loudness of Allan's voice and the bluntness of Allan's request.
When he did speak, he shook his head ruefully, and subdued the hearty loudness of his voice, with a preliminary look round to see if the servants were within hearing.
As the beating increased in loudness the interval shortened in an inverse degree, while in descending the scale the intervals lengthened as the beating softened, and the author of the sound was conscious of this fact.
At the approach of danger the latter is often given almost in a whisper, and at long intervals apart, but increases in loudness as the danger approaches; the other is usually spoken distinctly and repeated frequently.
For example, loudness is not force, though force at times may be attended by noise.
But for ordinary purposes it is sufficient to regard loudness and intensity as the same.
On the night between the 28th and 29th of September, however, the subterranean noises were renewed with greaterloudness than before, and the ground shook severely.
It's no good your saying they are when they ain't," said the boy, increasing the loudness of his crackling.
For Anna-Felicitas, roused from her morning languor by the unusual loudness of the German ladies' voices, and smitten into attention and opening of her eyes, heard the awful things they were saying and saw the sponge.
Neither was I, sir," said the other, with a peremptory loudness that was almost startling.
Cave, with a loudness that overbore the talk around him.
We are now prepared to realize the error of the common notion that loudness of tone is due entirely to increase of breath pressure on the vocal cords.
Simple experiments with the tuning-fork have shown that while the volume of sound it gives forth is due in part to the amplitude of its vibrations, its loudness is chiefly due to the character of the resonance provided for it.
He clearly shows that the voice alters much under different conditions, in loudness and in quality, that is, in resonance and timbre, in pitch and intervals.
The loudness of the thrush prevented them from giving it any attention, and made it practically inaudible.
An instrument for measuring the loudness of a signal by comparison with another signal.
The result of proper regulation is that when the critical potential value is reached there is a marked increase in the loudness of the sounds that are emitted by the head phones.
Either kind may be used with a one- or two-step amplifier or with a cascade of half a dozen amplifiers, according to the degree of loudness desired.
