At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.
When she stood there again it was the brown withered leaves that rustled around her, and the wind had a wintry sough in it.
A sough has thro' the hamlet spread, To Ailie's ear the tidings came, That Holmylee will shortly wed A lady fair of noble name.
He assured me that everything was now at an end, and the sough o' the country would dree the fate o' a seven days' wonder.
There, a sough of glory Shall breathe on you as you come, Ruffling round the doorway All the light of angeldom.
There were cries, the dim glow of an opened door high up, the sough of pouring waters in the darkness, a shadowy phantom and a swirl of propellers, and she was gone.
He could hear the sough of water, and there was a faint phosphorescence along the ship's side.
Sae keep a calm sough aboot it, or ye may fare the waur.
Some large animal was walking round; several times they heard the sough of its breath.
He saw the flash of two fiery eyes in the dim light and again heard the sough of the creature's breath before he clapped the door shut and braced the gun against it.
The execution of Jeanie was what all expected would happen; but when the news reached the town of the other parts of the sentence, the wail was as the sough of a pestilence, and fain would the council have got it dispensed with.
As for the young ladies, they could na endure him at all, for he had aye the sough and sound of love in his mouth, and a round-about ceremonial of joking concerning the same, that was just a fasherie to them to hear.
Presbyterian chaplains sough out a sermon on the morning of every birth-day, and now he would pass himsell for ane o' the Episcopal church!
Only the echo of his own voice reverberated along the line of houses, and dying away in the distance, as it mingles with the sough of the sea.
He lies listening to the soughof the sea, and the big drops pattering upon the planks above.
Gradually the sough settled down on Saunders Skelp--for who so likely to be the cause as the avowed lover of the girl, and, as people thought, her betrothed husband?
Spoken Gaelic is akin to the elements: it has a mystic affinity with the winds thatsough around the flanks of the mountains and along the surface of the lonely lochs.
The sound of the streams, as Ruskin has pointed out, is sweet and rhythmic to an extraordinary degree, combining with the sough of the winds to form an undersong of Nature's own melody.
We have mention of Gimmerton Sough in Chapter III.
Then whudder awa' thou bitter biting blast, And sough through the scrunty tree, And smoor me up in the snaw fu' fast And ne'er let the sun me see!
Charlotte Bronte was ever jealous of associations, and under a guise or not she frequently preserved carefully recognizable characteristics necessary to locality and to personality; and we see Montagu had associated a sough with Malham.
You hear the sweet sangs o' the birds, the sough o' the westland wind, and the everlasting plash o' yon burnie that gushes owre its linn.
Every sough of the wind among the brackens was a dread presage.
I listened to everysough of the wind, with a fear lest the clanking halberts of the watch should be in it.
So all the people stood up on the hillside and the sough of their uprising was like the wind among the cedar trees.
There came a sough from the people as his words ran over them, like a soothing and fanning wind blowing winningly among the trees of the wood.
We'll need to keep a calmsough the lave o' us," said Mrs Coats.
Their miniature thickets are noisy with the cries of Fieldfare, Pipit, and Ptarmigan, but these are left behind on nearing the upper plateau, where shade of rock and sough of wind are all that take their place.
The tide was in close on the breast-wall behind, and the sound of it came up and moaned in the close like the sough of a sea-shell held against the ear.
It grew clearer and yet uncannier as I sped on, and mixed with the sough of it I could hear at last the clink of chains.
Two corpses swung in the wind, like net bows on a drying-pole, going from side to side, making the woeful sough and clink of chains, and the dunt I had heard when the wind dropped.
My name can gang or bide; It's no a sough o' drucken words Wad turn my heid aside.
My name it needna hide; It's no a drucken sough wud gar Me turn my heid aside!
She heard the dizzy din of the bees, the sleepy grinding of the grass hoppers, the sough of the solitary pine at the door, and then behind them all a whizzing, machine-like sound.
Its sough i' the nichtwind keeps the bats frae pickin the auld banes, an' maybe it may save yer mother's, if ye send her there afore her time.
Cyclona lifted her head to listen to the moan and the sough of the wind.
