On one night in July 1886 (my father and I being away from home), my mother and her maid heard a loud noise in an unoccupied room over their heads.
I put a chair against the door, with my travelling bag on it, so arranged that, on any pressure outside, one or both must fall on the bare floor, and make noise enough to rouse me.
Each thinks that he has received some monition of the fall; each asserting that he heard no noise whatever to warn him.
A loud noise in the room overhead recalled me to my surroundings, and although I tried for some time I could not resume the impression.
Suddenly a noise is heard; it is her head which has fallen sharply on the edge of the table.
They went up, but seeing nothing and the noise ceasing, they went back to my mother's room on the first storey.
I finally followed the tribe silently, keeping just within hearing distance of the softnoise of the feet of the retreating Apaches.
However, they danced to this noise and seemed to think they were giving a fine show.
Gofa was stirring the porridge when she heard a noise outside the hut.
He there desired that it should take place early in the morning, with as little noise and disturbance as possible, and attended only by a few of his most intimate friends.
Two hours after, both Hannah and I heard a noise about the door, and voices in low conversation.
I might break the window," thought Rufus; but it occurred to him at once that the noise would probably be heard.
They would hear the noise of the struggle, and would cut off his flight.
The children are good, but full of spirits, and when I have one of my nervous headaches, the noisegoes through my head like a knife.
I am an invalid, as you see, and sometimes their noise absolutely distracts me.
The noise of some one moving around on the upper deck of the craft attracted the attention of all.
He's in the storeroom, and he sneezed and made a noise like a goat.
And when Athaliah heard thenoise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
I was too weak and uncomfortable to realise all that had happened; and what I suffered from the smallest noise I can hardly describe.
His four legs all gave way on the polished floor and down we went with a noise like thunder, the pony on the top of me, the chandelier on the top of him and my father and the footman helpless spectators.
The young man, from the noise of my steps, perceived that some body was coming after him.
When the day appeared, we heard the noise of the jinns, and saw that many personal attendants of Maliki Sadik were arrived, and had brought two rich khil'ats for us, and a covered litter with a network of pearls accompanied them.
At night, when the bridegroom wished to consummate the nuptial rites, such a noise and uproar arose in the palace, that the people without who mounted guard were surprised.
After a moment, a noise like that made by the mouth when some one is masticating, struck my ears.
I was seated at the head of the bed, and weeping; all at once the noise of lamentations spread through the whole house, and women began to pour in [upon me] from all sides.
It is somewhat akin to the "belfry," of a Romish church, the childish and everlasting noise of which is supposed to constitute an important part of Christianity.
In that sleep, the noise of weeping and lamentation struck my ears; rubbing my eyes, when I looked round, then neither the old man nor any one else was in that apartment.
I looked up, but could see nothing but trestle-work above me, and the noise was loud enough to be felt.
As we were crossing one of the streets or avenues a new noise came rushing at me, as fast as an automobile travels, but it was over my head.
Then I heard a peculiarnoise from above, and looking up, what should I see but Captain following the child up the stairs.
Then in a moment the fierce noise of it was gone, and it gradually grew less and less.
I feel sleepy, I'd best go to bed-- But what is that noise that I hear?
Then down through the chimneys he'll dart without noise And fill up the stockings with candy and toys.
Then stop crying now," the old woman said, "The noise you are making goes right through my head.
Then the pigs got up And ran about With a noise between A grunt and a shout.
The noise overhead that disturbs you in bed, 'T is the rats, I will venture my life, ma'am!
But the noise they made awoke Golden Hair; she startled out of bed (on the opposite side) and jumped out of the window.
Do not be angry Do not forget You liked to makenoise Sometimes do yet; Home will be sweeter Till life is done If you will give them An hour of fun.
He can sing with a voice of tremendous compass, from the sweet piping of a nightingale down to far below the deepest tones of the largest organ, or the noise made by discharges of artillery.
There would be no one in the hall outside, therefore, and so whatever noise the boys might make would not be heard by the doctor or any of the professors.
Some one might have heard the noise and be coming up to investigate.
You have to yell at him to make him understand but the more noise there is in the office the better he can hear.
Do you suppose they heard the noise and knew what it was?
Mr. Brooke, missing the noise of the press and coming out to learn the reason.
Every noise, however, resolved itself into the noise of bird, squirrel, or sapling.
Seated upon their haunches, with their mouths close together, they had made all the noise we had been hearing for the past ten minutes.
I have often thought of this incident since when I have heard the noise of a few disappointed politicians who had deserted their associates.
Nann was sweeping the porch and Dories was dusting and straightening the living-room when a queer humming noise was heard in the distance.
First was a noise regularly repeated, but that proved to be only a blind on an upper window banging in the wind.
They heard a noise back of them and turned to see Gib making for the entrance.
Dick had his hand on the knob, when again a scurrying noise within made him pause.
The girl was sure that she heard a scurrying noise in the old woman's room.
Don't you know that you are right over my head and every noise you make sounds as though it were right in this very room?
They were about to descend the back stairs when they heard a noise in the garret overhead.
That's the same scrambling noise that I heard before.
To her surprise the door was not fastened, and, as she stood peering into the dense blackness, she was sure that she heard a scrambling noise inside.
Nann listened and then calmly replied: "More than likely it's the fog horn about which Gib told us, and that other noise is the muffled roar of the surf crashing over the rocks out on the point.
Then the noise gradually lessened, big elm trees could be seen lining the streets, and far back among other trees and on wide lawns, lights from large homes flickered.
The boy had been making so much noise ripping off boards that he had only heard the last two words.
They had not progressed more than two boat-lengths when a whizzing, whirring noise was heard and the seaplane scudded from behind a reedy point which had obscured it, and crossed their cove before taking to the air.
This noise Martial must have heard within the house, for he came out, and after him came M.
Had Blanche and her victim been less overwhelmed with despair, they would have heard a noise upon the staircase which creaked beneath the tread of a man who was cautiously ascending it.
This," he thought, "explains the noise which the poor baron heard in the next room!
When he saw that Marie-Anne had breathed her last, he made a slight noise at the door, and thrust his leering face into the room.
At the least noise the hall shall be cleared," added M.
Vasilissa the Wise heard the noise made by the fresh set of pursuers, so she turned the Prince into an old priest, and she herself became an ancient church.
He tried to feel the pulse: his hand trembled, the noise and confusion in the kitchen bewildered him.
At the last words of the reproof administered by Julian to Horace, their attention was recalled to passing events by the slight noise produced by the opening and closing of the door.
It was there, as he could tell by the noise of hissing steam when the cross-cut was reached.
Tom waited breathless for the propitious instant when the tapping of the pipe-men's hammers should drown the noise of a dash for effacement.
The old hawks made a considerable noise while the fish was being carried away; but they soon gave up their squealing, and, once more hovering out over the river, sailed about with their eyes bent upon the water below.
As they approached nearer, they perceived that the noise appeared every moment more and more to their right; and presently they saw, below them, a rapid current sweeping into the Red River from the right bank.
The bellowing noise that both were making had drowned the latter; and the dust, together with the long shaggy tufts that hung over his eyes, had prevented him from seeing anything more than his rival, with whom he was engaged.
The noise made by the water was not very distant, and sounded like the roaring of "rapids," or the rush of a "fall.
They talked but little, as the noise of the rushing rapids rendered conversation painful.
It was the noise of rushing water, but not that which they had already heard and passed.
It was so provoking, that, after so much annoyance from the noise of St. Mary Street during the last dozen years, she must submit to having another public thoroughfare at the side of her house also.
But Nelly and Melissa both had heard a strange noise in the kitchen, as if some one had fallen, and had found that Miss Horatia had fainted dead away.
It was like having all the noiseand confusion on a Sunday.
It was hardly a cry, it was no noise that either of us had ever heard before; and we stopped for an instant, because we were too frightened to move.
The world just then was like the hollow of a great pink sea-shell; and we could only hear the noise of it, the dull sound of the waves among the outer ledges.
These were not pilgrims or Puritans, but gay gentlemen; and soon I heard the noise of their boats on the pebbles as they pushed off shore, and the splash of the oars in the water.
It grew late in the afternoon, and it was pleasant there in the shade, with the noise of the brook and the wind in the pines, that sounded like the sea.
Moreover, to carry three big turkeys up a flight of stairs and deposit them in an empty room without filling the whole place with their noise was the hardest part of all.
Upon all this the members of the society had astutely reckoned, and the coast was accordingly clear for them to do as they pleased as long as they did not make too much noise about it.
On the third night Rob, the window of whose room overlooked the mill-pond, happening to awake about midnight, thought he heard a most unusual splashing noise coming from the pond.
So he went in, and at the noise Paul shut his door; but Antony fell on his knees and prayed, and then besought admittance, which was granted.
Soon afterwards this house opposite was found to be haunted by spirits and goblins, which made a greatnoise in the night, rattling their chains, and sending forth the most horrid yells and groans.
This was agreed to, and the piper began to pipe, and the rats with a mighty rumbling noise came out of their holes and followed him.
Meanwhile, the noise of the robbery of the arm of St. Nicholas spread through the whole of Italy and Sicily, and at last some one recognised the silver covering.
The monks coming into the choir to sing matins, the idiot awoke and made a noise which startled the religious men, who, however, continued to sing their matins, and then retired.
Hardly had we passed the threshold when, behold, regular matches of tennis-players within the circular enclosures, and the frequent noise and rattling of dice, with the clamours of the players.
