He did not try to speak, because the roar of the waters would have drowned the sound of his voice.
The swirl of the water as they came nearer made a roaring sound that was fearful to listen to.
But the little girl could hear no sound at all except the snores of Cap'n Bill.
They had gone halfway through it when the soundof sobbing, as of someone in bitter distress, reached their ears and caused them to halt abruptly.
The sailor had kept an assortment of nails, of various sizes, in this box, but those he now dumped loosely into his pocket and in the box placed the three sound purple berries.
The weight is then lifted from men's hearts; singing is heard in the cabin, and the sound of laughter on the trail.
The 3d of February we sailed up Port Royal Sound to Beaufort, where we landed that the Cahawba might be cleaned, then reembarked on it the next day and returned to Port Royal.
The Cahawba steamed up the Sound to Beaufort with us the 11th of April, where the regiment landed and went into camp.
Falling in quickly at the sharp voiced orders transmitted from Gibbon down, the men were double quicked on the sound of battle.
The soundof trampling horses and the rattling of heavy wagons came clearly to their ears.
While the singing of minie balls has an ominous sound in the ears of the most hardened veteran, the roar of a battery, except at close quarters, when throwing grape and canister, is not very alarming to him.
There was a wild scattering at the sound of the coming shell, the runner was left to serve us as a target, and we sent shell after shell into her until she was but a wreck.
Through all this country the goat occupies the coast region from Prince William Sound south nearly to the American border.
Only those soundof wind and limb can venture after Oreamnos.
Is there no voice more worthy than my own, To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear For the repealing of my banish'd brother?
If she heard the sound of the lid being moved, she would rush to it in a sort of frenzy.
For two days we hovered in the offing, but on the evening of the 25th, we hailed the sound of our anchor-chains.
The sound of the Keiskama's gently flowing waters remained undisturbed, the Fingo phalanx had moved onwards, and the little mound on which the 91st were encamped, formed a lively contrast to the profound repose of the valley below.
What a volume ofsound rolls through the heavy air!
There was a sound of running waters, a waving of green boughs, scenting the air with their fragrance, and making me imagine myself, in my weak state, fanned by the kindly wings of unseen angels.
For this purpose, Captain Ward went over to the barracks, to order the bugler to sound the "alarm," but he was not at hand.
There were no noises, no sound of footsteps, nothing but the shiver of the assegais, which gleamed as they dashed onwards.
We one day met him out riding; he begged us to raise our veils, which we did, laughing, and he acknowledged the courtesy by a sound between a bark and a sigh.
The fires grew dim, and the moon and her companions in the sky alone lit up the scene; tents were closed and the sound of the last bugle died away in the hushed night air, leaving all silent, peaceful, and at rest.
He seemed to be dozing as they entered, but hearing the sound of a strange voice, he looked up and asked who had come.
At the sound of his well-remembered tones Zora shuddered, for the events of the last night she had seen him were too fresh in her memory to be forgotten.
King Richard gave a sound of assent, but the King of France shook his head gravely.
All held their breath; but no sound followed the discharge.
All this time no sound from the castle proclaimed that their intention was suspected, or that any alarm had been given, and in silence they gained the top of the wall.
The horse trembled in every limb at the sound of the howling of the wolves; and cold as was the night, in spite of the great fire that blazed on the hearth, his coat became covered with the lather of fear.
Then it was placed roughly on the ground, and she heard the sound of the footsteps of her first captors hurrying away.
There was a dull sound heard, and one by one the heads of the knights rolled in the sand.
Orders had been given that no sound or whisper was to be heard on board the boat; and after rowing as far as they could the boatmen said they were in the direction of the ship.
The sound of a trumpet was heard, and Richard of England, accompanied by his principal nobles, entered.
There was a loud and angry altercation, a clashing of swords, and a sound of shouting and cries outside the litter.
He had yielded most unwillingly at last to her entreaties, backed as they were by the sound arguments and good sense of Father Francis.
Toward morning the archer on guard reported that he could hear the sound of many approaching footsteps.
It seemed a long time waiting before the dawn fairly broke--still longer before the earl's bugle was heard to sound the attack.
A moment afterward, from above a mighty mass of rock and snow poured over like a cascade, with a roar and sound which nigh stunned them.
I have to strive so hard, nowadays, to goad you into saying these idiotic suitable dear things: and even when at last you do say them your voice is light and high, and makes them sound as though you were joking.
I should as soon undertake to bring the crazy skulls of Bedlam to sound understanding, as inculcate reason into that of an Athanasian.
There will be considerable opposition to this last proposition, not only from the federalists, old and new, who oppose every thing, but from sound members of the majority.
In reading it, with great satisfaction, there was but a single passage where I wished a little more developement of a very sound and catholic idea; a single intercalation to rest it solidly on true bottom.
They shall carry hence the correct principles of our day, and you may count assuredly that they will exhibit their country in a degree of sound respectability it has never known, either in our days, or those of our forefathers.
Yet, however sound in its principles, I expect it will be but a sermon to the wind.
The sixth section on the good moral principles of our government, I found so interesting and replete with sound principles, as to postpone my letter-writing to its thorough perusal and consideration.
Some of your brethren will be encouraged to follow it occasionally, and in time, it may be felt by all as a duty, and the sound practice of the primitive court be again restored.
But her gangrene is contracting, the sound flesh advancing on it, and all there will be well.
He closed the door behind him and came forward, and then, odd as it may sound in connection with one who was weak, unwell, and suffering from so much mental trouble, Sydney burst into a hearty fit of laughter.
But somehow in a misty way as he walked up to the back of the house, half thinking that he would sound the boy, it hardly seemed to be the way to seek a fortune to start off with a servant.
The first sound of that voice sent a warm glow through Syd, and thawed his frozen faculties.
He threw over his bundle, and then swung himself up into the tree, got astride the big bough, and was working himself along, when a sound close at hand made him stop short to listen.
There was a hot breath upon his face, a great hand was grasping his arm, and he turned to look wildly at the boatswain, and tried to speak, but there was only a harsh inarticulate sound from his parched throat.
It was only a jagged crack of a couple of feet across, but it sloped outward directly, so that a vast hollow was formed, and when he shouted down it there was a deep reverberating sound which died away in a whisper.
But the order did not come, and he only heard a growlingsound as the boatswain said something to one of the men.
He climbed into his hammock again, and listened to the rustling sound made by Roylance and the remarks of his messmates.
His lips parted to speak, but only a harsh sound came, and the black cloud began to loom over him.
Philip through his trumpet--but the gale drove the sound back.
Philip went into the adjoining room, threw himself upon his bed, and in a few minutes was in a sleep as sound as that permitted to the wretch a few hours previous to his execution.
We were all busy putting it into the platters before the fire, to await his coming, when we heard the sound of a horn.
In the galleries the keepers watch, and not a word or a sound can proceed from any cell without their being able to overhear it.
Philip started: he had been so occupied with his search and his wild chasing thoughts, that he had not heard the soundof an approaching footstep.
A rattling sound in one corner told him that in all probability the key was there concealed.
Philip made no further objections, and was soon in a sound sleep, and Amine watched him in silence till midnight long had passed.
Mortified at the ill success of his chase, he was about to retrace his steps, when he heard the distant sound of a horn.
In a few seconds was heard thesound of the oars retreating from the ship.
Tired out with the fatigue of the day before, Philip had laid himself down by Krantz and fallen asleep; early the next morning he was awakened by the sound of the commandant's voice, and his long sword rattling as usual upon the pavement.
The rhythm of Beowulf and indeed of all our earliest poetry depended upon accent and alliteration; that is, the beginning of two or more words in the same line with the same sound or letter.
Then the warriors on the mount Kindled a mighty bale fire; the smoke rose Black from the Swedish pine, the sound of flame Mingled withsound of weeping; .
For his models he went to Greek poetry, which he regarded as "the only sure guidance to what is soundand true in poetical art.
The first is an explanation and criticism of Wordsworth's theory of poetry, and contains more sound sense and illuminating ideas on the general subject of poetry than any other book in our language.
And then the poet wakes from his vision with the sound of Easter bells ringing in his ears.
Burnside has entered theSound at Hatteras with his fleet of gun-boats and transports.
I was startled in bed by the sound of cannon from the new southside fort again.
The papers give forth an uncertain sound of what is going on in the field, or of what is likely to occur.
The sullensound of cannon heard this morning as usual down the river.
As the morning progressed, the city was a little startled by the sound of artillery in a northern direction, and not very distant.
Nature and reality have no part in English scholastic life; "good form" and "sound scholarship" count for more than the heart of man.
The wood softly sound the chord which we have so often heard before, No.
Helmholtz has observed that there is much more in a musical sound than its mere timbre, and Wagner has noticed how every musical instrument has not only its vowel sound, or timbre, but also its peculiar consonant.
For a great part of the time the entire orchestra is occupied, and until far into the scene the voices are quite unable to pierce the volume of sound from the orchestra.
Men cared only for the pleasing sound of the nightingale's voice, nothing for the beating heart from which it sprang.
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We are to believe that their hearts tremble with affright, that the very sound of our words offends the purity of their ears, that they hate us for talking so, and only yield to our importunity by a compulsive force.
From the corner by the stove an iron pot hurtled across the room for the sound of the voice and crashed against the wall a foot from his head.
She heard again the sound of saw and axe as he worked up the dry logs into stove lengths.
It may sound rather trite--coming after that," Deane said.
The boy's physical qualifications were as sound as his mental ability was limited and it was his pride to have a string of mounts that included the worst horses in the lot.
One sound bull for two with tender feet was Warren's rule of trade.
A man shifted his position in the stockade, raised to peer from a hole breast high, and she saw him pitch down on the ground before the sound of the shot reached her.
There's considerable sound truth in that," he said.
The sound of Waddles's hand-axe ceased and an instant later the roar of the shotgun sounded twice from within the house, followed by the cook's lament.
From beyond this gap came the shrill nicker of a horse, the sound chopped short as if a man had clamped his hand on the animal's nostrils to silence it.
Her range-bred ears caught and correctly interpreted the sound which had roused him.
These crippled ones were soon made sound in the puddle pen, a sod corral flooded with sufficient water to puddle the yellow clay into a six-inch layer of stiff, healing mud, then thrown out on the open range to fatten and grow strong.
At the sound of a footfall behind him Harris whirled on his heel and when he confronted Deane the dim light from the door glinted on something in his hand.
The sound was not loud but flat and mirthless, the syllables distinct and evenly spaced.
For a time the man sat and listened, as if he enjoyed the sound of her voice, contributing nothing to the conversation himself, then suddenly he stirred in his chair and waved a hand to indicate the unimportance of the topics.
At the sound of Harris's voice his mind made another lightning shift back to the present.
The sound of his English tongue seemed to take all the fight out of the remaining warriors.
But there was sound sense in the advice thus gruffly tendered.
At the sound of an English voice three men scattered and fled like rabbits, but the fourth, he who clutched the woman, set her at liberty and drew a long knife.
He slept the sleep of sound digestion, which is so often confused with a good conscience, and rose betimes.
You might think from hearin' me as he sort of put on airs over knowin' so much himself, but it don't sound that way a tall in the book.
However much he roams around while I'm in church he always hops back in bed an' manages to be sound asleep when it's time for me to come home.
I was so sound asleep I told him to set a mouse trap two times afore my senses come to me an' then when they did I was mad.
The brave warriors cower shivering under some shelter at the sound of my voice.
So strong was he, that as he soared through the air his wings made a hummingsound as the rumble of distant thunder.
The figure still sat at the door, not a sound coming from it, neither was it breathing.
Our orchestras have increased in size and in volume of sound since the days of Mozart and Beethoven.
Then, when Miss Grey in person came to the town in the company of so distinguished a man as Mr. Money, even gossip started repentant at the sound itself had made, and began to deny that it had ever made any sound at all.
But the importance of inculcating sound views on this subject is just as necessary here as there.
Light and sound and odors sweet Fill the street; Gypsy girls are selling flowers.
Wells has made a good choice in presenting Bastiat's writings on political economy,[16] for his essays are assound in principle as they are homely in method.
If the presumption is against the dignity of deeply poetic utterance, poor Musset is, in the vulgar phrase, nowhere--he is a mere grotesque sound of lamentation.
In this very chapter on the "Merchant of Venice" there are two or three pages of sound criticism of the dull and pompous platitudes of the sham-profound German critics, for which we thank the author.
We feel satisfied that it will sound the death knell of all the existing schools of music.
We have all read in story about the effect of some little magic word, which once spoken makes that which was lovely before seem but loathly, and what was kindly wisdom sound like fatuous malignity.
Brock's sound old house-dog instinct must have been very inconvenient to her.
He looked wistfully for another word on this great avowal, but she was really too much stupefied to enter into the purport of the boy's words, and soon after he left her she fell sound asleep.
Now and then there was a muffled sound from Armine, but no word was spoken till they were within their own door.
Babie confided her feelings to Jock when he escorted her to Church in the evening, and had detected a melancholy sound in her voice which made him ask if she thought Armine's attack of the worst sort.
That fellow can always snooze away off hand, and he is as sound as a top in the next room; but I was to give you this at two.
Then Jock had time to question whether Barbara ought to go on with him and Armine to the door, but there was a sound in her "Let me!
Jock made a sound of horror and disgust that made her laugh.
As to the being a sound religious man, her mother might seek in vain for a man of real ability who held those old-fashioned notions.
At first the tired, despairing guides did not hear, but going along the road by the lake in the direction from which the sound came, the prolonged wail became more audible.
Oh, I'm wearying for the sound of the wheels and the flow of people!
You can't keep up even with the world without a sound foundation.
The old man looked from face to face, and his lips moved; but no sound came from them in reply.
When they had all passed, and the sound of their footsteps had died away, one of them returned, and after a little hesitation and rustling in the passage, as if he were doubtful what door to knock at, knocked at hers.
At that silent hour, when her grandfather was sleeping peacefully in his bed, and everysound was hushed, the child lingered before the dying embers, and thought of her past fortunes as if they had been a dream And she only now awoke.
They trudged forward, more slowly and painfully than they had done yet, for another mile or thereabouts, when they heard the sound of wheels behind them, and looking round observed an empty cart approaching pretty briskly.
If they would knock again,' said Quilp, trying to peer into the gloom by which he was surrounded, 'the sound might guide me!
Whenever the sound reached his ears, he would immediately lay down his pen and fall to rubbing his hands and exhibiting the greatest glee.
There was only Mrs Quilp at home, and she, little expecting the return of her lord, was just composing herself for a refreshing slumber when the sound of his footsteps roused her.
