No spell in all the lore of graves Can still the plash of Walden waves Or wash away the azure stain Of Concord skies from heart and brain.
The water must not be allowed to plash around him nor the bushes to rustle as he passed.
They bugged the western shore, where they were shadowed by banks and bushes, and now they went slowly, Long Jim and Tom Ross drawing their oars so carefully through the water that there was never a plash to tell of their passing.
I dreamed what I dreamed of thy goodness; Dreamed of a smile in thy gleam, of a laugh in the plash of thy ripple: False and devouring thou art, and the great world dark and despiteful.
Drusus was just turning for a last embrace, when many voices and the plash of oars sounded below.
A single gondolier guided the boat, and no other noise was audible but the plash of the water, as the oars slowly fell and rose together.
At this moment the music suddenly ceased, and the plashof oars falling into the water succeeded.
In a moment more it whirled aside, and the hollow sound, caused by the plash of water between high walls, announced its entrance into a narrower canal.
Below lies a tiny beach, strewn with a few bits of driftwood and some purple shells, and so sheltered by projecting walls that its wavelets plash but lightly.
A vessel sails by with plash and roar, and all the white spray along her side is sparkling with sunlight.
Not a shepherd, nor a sheep, nor a living creature within sight--nothing but the sound of the passing stream, and the plash of the hooked and landing trout.
Ancient proverbs sounded, for his memory, in the tone of their words and the clink of their glasses, in the hum of the town and the plash of the river.
As he spoke there was a plash in the water; I caught the arrowy gleam of a scared fish shooting into the middle of the stream; my hook hung empty from the line.
The great war whoop came again, filling the forest with its fierce echoes, and then followed silence, a silence which every one of the five knew would be broken later by the plash of paddles.
Henry and Shif'less Sol, although they could not see it at first, knew it had started, because their keen ears caught the plash of the paddles.
It was the plash of a paddle, and as he looked, peeping from the side of the trunk, a warrior stepped from a canoe at the river's brink and took a long look at the forest.
The first sound of the overmountain migration of which I spoke above was of the stealthy step of the hunter, yet back of that for a century was the scarcely audible plash of the paddle and the answering swirl of the water.
If the language of the upper valley of the St. Lawrence and of the valley of the Mississippi remembered as distinctly its origin we should everywhere hear the plash of the oar in all the hospitality of their settlements.
It had been feeding in a sedge of the wild rice (Zizania aquatica), and no doubt the sight of the canoe or the plash of the guiding oar had disturbed, and given it the alarm.
There was a sharp whizzing sound in the air--a plash was heard--then the smooth bosom of the water was seen to break, and the white spray rose several feet above the surface.
A heavy plash followed, and for some seconds both wapiti and wolverene were lost under the water.
Then all was silent, till there smote my ear A movement in the stream that checked my breath: Was it the slow plash of a wading deer?
The only sound audible was the low, monotonous plash of the sea against the wall, or the grating noise of a chain cable, as the vessel it held surged slowly with the tide.
As the flotilla neared the shore in line of battle, the stillness was unbroken, save by the plash of their oars and the music of the surf.
Not a sound broke the stillness of the lake, save the lap of surf or the plash of the startled saurian.
We heard a plash in the waters, and saw no more of him.
Then all was very still once more for a time, till suddenly the faint plash-plash of oars was heard, seeming now to be coming nearer, now to be fading away, drowned by the shrill insect hum.
A harsh roar came from the jungle, and then a loud plash or two echoed over the surface of the stream, as some great reptile plunged in from the muddy bank.
The fugitives were not long kept in suspense, for very soon the plash of the prahu's oars was heard, and then the shadow of the great boat shut out some of the light as she brushed against the branches.
She had not long to wait in indecision, and she knew that her hearing had not played her false, for the two girls had heard the same sound, and running to the window, stood listening as the plash of oars now came nearer and nearer.
Again there was silence, while each mused, gazing into space and vaguely listening to the plash of high water under the window.
It was almost as good as being at sea; for when they turned their backs to the shore nothing could be seen but water and sails and flying birds, and nothing heard but the incessantplash and dash of the waves below.
There was no sound except the plash of the waves, and for a moment she felt as much alone as if she had been in the depths of a country solitude.
So the Unser Fritz was gloomy, and the plash of the sea against her worn plates had an ominous sound, while the glittering white eye of the lighthouse winked evilly across the black plain in front.
Rifles had been reloaded by those who remained; and now and then the plash of the tiny pellet could be seen, where it struck the water far short of the distant swimmer.
There were loose stones strewed thickly along the shore; among these his feet became entangled; and, balancing backward, he fell with a plash upon the pond!
