But it was deserted, and nothing was heard but the roaringof the congos.
But all this was nothing to our travellers, nor was the clang of the macaws anything, or the roaring of the little congo ape.
They heard the surf a-roaring before the break of day; But 'twas only with the peep of light we saw how ill we lay.
To see its rocky pastures, its sparse but hardy corn, The mist roll off its forehead before a harvest morn; To hear the pine-trees crashing across its gulfs of snow Upon a roaring midnight when the whirlwinds blow.
The tide came roaring up against the current of the St. Lawrence with uncommon strength, and the British were obliged to retreat to their camp across the Montmorenci, to avoid submersion on the beach by the foaming waters.
It was a scene of fearful grandeur, and to the poor settlers, shivering in the mountains, or huddled upon the little hills in the midst of the roaring floods, the star of hope seemed forever set.
Beneath, the roaring of the fires filled up the intervals with a deep and hollow sound, which seemed to be the protracted murmur of the thunder reverberated from one end of heaven to the other.
Rachel, spurned from him by her brother, sat Moveless a while, the image of dismay, Her two ears caves of roaring sound, her mind A whirling void of sheer astonishment.
Beyond the Nefood to the west towers the Jebel Tobeyk, a high ridge covered in winter with deep snow, the melting of which fills the ravines with roaring streams.
Roaring of the lion, voice of the growling lion, Teeth of the young lions are broken; The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered.
Whitman is content with a shouting, roaring optimism about life and humanity.
They would be roaring like rebels, or even regicides, yet that is exactly what we have done with the whole new invention of wireless.
The Englishman is an Anarchist and a grumbler: he has no such word as Fatherland, and the idea which he supposes corresponds to it is nothing but the swing of a roaring chorus to a patriotic song.
That first night tigers came very near the house, roaring discontentedly.
All night long he had had to defend himself against the strange seething and roaring that rose in the distance and, swelling as it approached, threatened to suffocate him.
A fearful squall cameroaring up from the sea and into its face horse and rider stormed up the narrow path to the dike.
Always in front of us we heard the yelling and roaringwhich showed the direction of the pursuit.
One great fellow ran past me roaring with pain, with a dozen darts sticking from his chest and ribs.
The hulk starts, shivers from stem to stern, and a great wave comes roaring over her, sweeping the poop by several feet.
The roaring of the steam had now ceased, and the great funnels towered above, white and ghostly.
An immense blaze of lights flashes before his dazed gaze, together with a very babel of voices and a wild roaring and a rush of white foam--then another wave rolls over him.
Fancy this poor chap Develin Hunt, over whose absurd name we were roaring when that first yarn about the derelict came to hand, turning out to be my old pal Jack Faro of the early, rousing, Kimberley days!
No sooner had the words passed his lips than he was taken up and whisked into the moat with prodigious force; and the fairies came crowding round about him with great anger, screeching and screaming, and roaring out, "Who spoiled our tune?
Among his best known writings are Condensed Novels, in which he showed great skill as a parodist, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Idyll of Red Gulch, and The Heathen Chinee.
Said the Prophet, in resounding tones, "'As a roaring lion and a ranging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.
He was keeping a wary eye turned in the quarter whence the roaring sound could be heard, constantly growing louder with each passing second.
He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height, Deep in the roaring tide, he plunged to endless night.
What tongue the amazement and the affright can tell, Which on the Chamian army fell, When on both sides they saw the roaring main Broke loose from his invisible chain?
Like the rage of a tempest was the noise of the battle; like the roaring of the torrent, gushing from the brow of the lofty mountain.
Fain would I know what makes the roaring thunder, And what these lightnings be that rend the clouds asunder, And what these comets are on which we gaze and wonder.
Egward, keeper of the barks, arise like the roaring waves of the sea: pursue the black companies of the enemy.
The shouting of the firemen, the roaring of the flames rushing up the tower with the rapidity of a furnace draught, sounded in the high and arched space, awful and terrific.
Beneath this group is O’Connell, who is roaring out “Hurrah for Repeal!
We had not taken a dozen steps when we heard the enemy roaring behind us.
And having helped the man to remount, they returned to their amusement of roaring "Morte agli Austriaci!
And the first who came to hand was a priest, a little man, who was lying with two or three fellows on the top of him, horribly frightened and roaring piteously for help.
