The inference seems to be that the noises, like the sights occasionally seen, are hallucinatory, not real.
The Go Ahead Boy was less interested in the sights which greeted him on his return than when he at first entered the canyon.
He pictured to himself the sights of Thorn's Gulch through which he and John had been led several miles by the guide.
Both boys in spite of the exciting experiences of the morning were deeply interested in the marvelous sightswhich greeted them as they advanced into the gulch.
Booker Washington used to declare that a high-grade Berkshire boar, or a Poland China sow, is one of the finest sights on this planet.
And sights and sounds of country Came in the warm soft tune Sung by the honey'd breezes Borne on the wings of June.
The rise of the rivers is another of the wonderfulsights of Africa.
A 16-gun brig under all sail was one of the prettiest sights imaginable.
Yes: one sometimes longs to see such sights again.
One of the earlier horrid sights I saw was when three Sepoy mutineers were brought into camp to be blown away from a gun.
There were some pretty sights to be seen during that summer’s campaign.
But to the English traveller, who now scarcely dares to hope to find a spot left on Europe where he may look on Nature, unseared by cockneyfied sights and sounds, it ought not to form a very serious subject for complaint.
There are two or three thimble-riggers on the ground, but they seem to be in a barren county; nobody there is green enough for them; the very small boys take sights at them.
The movie affords a wonderful opportunity to see thesights and scenes of other lands, of feeding the imagination of the child on travel pictures and nature pictures.
He took his friends out everywhere in his four-in-hand, and they saw to advantage some of the sights of Burton's younger days.
Having seen the chapel and the other sightshe mentioned that he wanted a wife.
His common sense soon told him that the so-called miraculous sights were merely hallucinations, the outcome of heated and hysterical imagination.
Alf fell upon the window-sill with tears, And long, long time upon the tower he gazed, As though he yet his gaze would satiate With those dear sights he shortly must forego.
So Aristide, out of love for his friend, and out of he knew not what for his friend's wife, continued to show them the sights of Paris.
Soon after we met one of those sights common in part of the world, to wit a chain slave-gang, bound east.
The sore heart made still sorer by the woeful sights I had seen of man's inhumanity to man racked and told on the bodily frame, and depressed it beyond measure.
Ivory pillars were commonsights in Manyuema, and, hearing of these, one can no longer, wonder at the ivory palace of Solomon.
I would thou hadst stayed in the fort, for these sights are unfit for women.
There might be more beautiful sights in the world, but Jenieve doubted it; and a white gull drifted across her vision like a moving star.
With the rifle this cannot occur, and every time one makes a hit he has received a true impression of the position the sights should hold relative to the bell.
Any gunsmith can change the sightsto suit, or you can put them in yourself if you have them.
In looking along the line of sights with one eye, the target will be obscured; but if both eyes are left open, there will appear to be a hole in the card through which the target can be seen.
Catch the bell just full over your sights and keep it there while you lead it down.
I will listen to your explanations of the sights with interest.
To one accustomed to hard sights and scenes, to one not easily perturbed by human degradation, that which passed as we entered was sufficient to unnerve him.
But I had visited and described all these places before, and that is some excuse, for the sights were not new to me, whereas a good dinner seems always to have the freshness of novelty.
We clambered over the rocks until we came to the end of Noah's Ark, and we stood on a ledge of lava and gazed at one of the strangest sights of this strange island.
As we had not been able to take any sights for some days, I thought we might be somewhat nearer the shoals on the coast than I supposed; so hove to and took soundings, but found no bottom.
We now had a few days of drifting over a calm sea, under a soft drizzling rain, and we were unable to take any sights of the sun.
Mr Dawson went to the town every day, but some days he did not stay there long, and Marion and he grew as friendly among the flowers and fields, as they had been among the wonderful sights of London during the first days of their acquaintance.
Who, with such sightsbefore him as these, gentlemen, and you, would not be proud of the name of Frenchmen?
Sometimes I must confess I have wondered whether it would be in this world or the next--and I didn't want it in some other sphere, but here in the old world, among the scenes and sights he loved.
For instance, how much had the ordinary everyday sights such as pass us every day without our giving them a thought changed in that time!
What sights and sounds those old walls have seen and heard!
The sights and sounds all around me took on a deeper purpose and a more significant meaning than they had ever borne before.
I had for a few brief days been a captive, shut out from nature's sights and sounds, and that brief deprivation awoke in me a feeling of appreciation for the feast that is everywhere around us spread with a lavish hand.
Our father was the most cheerful of companions, loving to take us about to any kind of sights or entertainments which offered, and buying us toys and presents on every possible occasion.
We saw all the orthodox sights in each place and at Florence dined with Mr. John Meyer and his first wife, who, if I remember rightly, was a Fitzgerald.
He lodged us in a bungalow generally let to some English officers who were temporarily absent, and he and his nephew did all in their power to show us the sights at Muttra and in the neighbourhood.
We saw the Galleries and Museums, and attended a Wagner opera--Siegfried; but I need not record sights and sentiments shared with so many other travellers.
We were carried to all the sights in chairs, and under the auspices of Mr. Watters were treated with every civility, though I cannot of course say whether any insulting remarks were made in the vernacular.
I do not describe any of the sights which we saw either at the Ports or at sea, much as they thrilled such unaccustomed oriental travellers as ourselves.
When we sometimes tried to select thesights which we had seen most worthy of inclusion in the Nine Wonders of the World, neither my husband nor I ever hesitated to place Niagara among the foremost.
We stayed at Clark's Hotel, while Shiva Prashad showed us all the well-known sights of the Holy City, and also took us to pay a formal visit to the "Maharajah of the people of Benares.
I kept a journal during this tour in which the sights of the city are duly noted with the remark, after seeing the post office, that we "made the various observations proper to intelligent but tired travellers.
At Genoa we joined my mother's sister Agnes and her husband, Sir Archibald Campbell (of Garscube), and saw various sights in their company.
Little or no retouching was necessary in the case of the stupendous flights of steps that were found leading up to the door of this prehistoric royal residence, and which are the first of the many sights the visitor of to-day may see.
For those who reverence the great antiquities, Candia and its pre-classic suburb are distinctly worth visiting, and are unique among the sights of the ancient Hellenic and pre-Hellenic world.
In this remote village there are no sights to see, there is no newspaper to intrude the worries of the distant world, there is nothing going on, it is always Sunday.
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