The voices that came back to him sounded sleepy, and some sounded cross as well.
A minute of silence followed during which the ticking of Myron's watch on the bedside table sounded loudly in the room.
Myron's voice may have sounded disgruntled, for Merriman smiled faintly and asked: "What's the matter?
But Myron thought that there had been a quarter of an hour subsequent to it when the visitor had sounded out of patience and even a trifle short-tempered.
You fell into it pretty soft," answered Myron, with a laugh that soundednone too agreeable.
They were rather shabby, rather incredible reasons, that sounded too reasonable to be true.
But, then, in that absurd business, I did not even know her name, and the whole story would have sounded a little mad.
In his first stage Shakespeare had dropped his plummet no deeper into the sea of the spirit of man than Marlowe had sounded before him; and in the channel of simple emotion no poet could cast surer line with steadier hand than he.
That is a touch beyond the ear or the hand of Fletcher: a chord sounded from Apollo's own harp after a somewhat hoarse and reedy wheeze from the scrannel-pipe of a lesser player than Pan.
All might have ended well, had not Kurt in his home-made car suddenly sounded a blatant horn as he came around a curve.
A god-made love, sweet and strong, conceived on earth, but brought forth on high where the call of destiny hadsounded with clarion clearness.
The name she had given sounded demimondish, and she was a friend of Pen's!
I wish you hadn't asked me,' she said, and her voice sounded like there were tears in her eyes.
He incontinently had his trumpets sounded and his drums beaten for to assemble all the princes, and lords, and captains as well of Germany and Burgundy as of Hainault.
Before Jargeau, on the 12th of June, although it was Sunday, Joan had the trumpets sounded for the assault.
It sounded like knocking little blocks all around and making the corners click.
And if some one had told her that she would one day be driving in a beautiful park over yonder it would have sounded like a fairy tale.
Then his sob broke out again, and it sounded more like a laugh than a sob.
His voice still sounded the distant note of warning.
She listened to a strange voice that sounded far off, from somewhere beyond forgetfulness.
Theirs had a ring of insanity in it; itsounded monstrous and immoral, like the mirth of victims under the shadow of condign extinction.
His voice had a queer vibration that sounded to Miss Tarrant like a cry.
The cheering had hardly died down when the buglessounded the alarm.
The bugler, who is always at Garibaldi's side, soundedthe charge, and the Neapolitans ran.
Never before had this hymn sounded so sweetly in the ears of Columbus, and Luis found his eyes suffusing with tears, as he recalled the soft thrilling notes of Mercedes' voice, in her holy breathings of praise at this hour.
Your pardon, Senor Colon," he immediately and more courteously added; "but your conditions sounded so lofty that they have quite taken me by surprise.
The bugle sounded "forward" and that line of cavalry started on a walk.
The confederate looked on in astonishment, while they sounded a call, and when it was done I asked the chief bugler what it was, and he told me, and I asked him to sound something else, which he did.
He was an Irishman, also, and when any bugle-call and when any bugle-call sounded he had to ask some one what it was.
I told him that when the bugle sounded, and I saw the boys coming back on a hop, skip and jump, it seemed to me the most natural thing in the world that the bugle had sounded a retreat.
Then the bugle sounded the "Assembly," and each company rode up on to the hill and formed in regimental front facing the battle.
Occasionally something would go over me that sounded as though a buzz saw had been fired from a saw mill explosion.
The bugle soundeddown in the woods, and the sergeant turned to me and asked, "Fhat the divil is that I dunno?
Of course it could not be expected that every man in a cavalry regiment would be a music teacher, and the calls sounded so much alike to the uncultivated ear, that it was no wonder that everybody got the calls mixed.
The thing was about over, the bugle having sounded the "recall," and we turned and went back with this Confederate.
Presently the regimental bugle sounded "Boots and saddles," and in a minute every man on the hill had rushed down to his tent, even before the notes had died away from the bugle.
Outside the farmhouse, in the direction of the tower, sounded shots.
Febrer's voice sounded like a caressing whisper in the girl's ear.
A feminine voice sounded in the distance like a crystal, breaking the dense silence of the early afternoon hours vibrant with heat and light.
The old fisherman insisted in his puny voice, which, wafted in on the wind, sounded like the plaintive crying of a child.
A voice, the same one he had heard a moment ago, tremulous and tearful, sounded in his ears, thrilling him to the depths of his soul.
The traditional cry of challenge had sounded some distance away.
In the twilight and silence Miss Mary's voice sounded pleasantly, 'I will take the boy.
The Missions had been the last expression of the instinct of conquest upon the part of a decaying nation; and the Angelus that nightly rang from some fast-crumbling tower sounded the knell of Spanish rule in America.
It was the danger signal, never sounded when any hope of saving the ship remained.
Velo knew he would get up-- The revolver sounded like a cannon.
There was a terrible silence that soundedas loud and beat as fiercely in their ears as the boom of cannon.
It had sounded like a very fine thing when her father had spoken it, so she had repeated it with great pride.
Back and forth sounded the voices of the two girls, each one moving toward the other, for at the welcome sound of Estralla's call Sylvia had sprung up and hurried in the direction from which the voice seemed to come.
Sylvia, Sylvia," sounded her mother's voice, and both the little girls looked at each other with startled eyes.
I am Sylvia Fulton," she said, wondering why her voice sounded so faint.
But if any of them have carelessly said something that sounded unkind, I know they will apologize," continued the friendly voice; and again Sylvia looked up.
Sylvia thought that her friend's voicesounded as if she were about to cry, and the little girl slipped her hand into Mrs. Carleton's.
It was as she lay sleepless in bed long after midnight that the solution of the difficulty suddenly sounded in her brain.
The train seemed to stop, and the names of the stations sounded dim in her ears.
She experienced an exquisite idea, a holy intimacy of feeling; there was a breathless exaltation in the heavens and on the earth, and the wild cry of a startled bird darting through the shrubberies sounded like a challenge or defiance.
Her singing sounded like silken raiment among sackcloth, and she lowered her voice, feeling it to be indecorous and out of place in the antique hymn.
True it was that everyone who had heard her sing thought the same; but the last time he had heard her, had not her voice sounded a little thin?
He seemed to bar her way to the stage, and the music that was to bring her on soundedin her ears, yet she could see the shape of her room and its furniture.
The melancholy little peal of the bell hanging on a loose wire sounded far away, and in the interval Evelyn noticed the large double door, from which the old green paint was peeling.
The chime of destiny sounded clearer than ever in their ears; it seemed as if they could almost catch the tune, and with a convulsive movement Evelyn drew her lover towards her.
She was conscious that he was making the sign of the cross over her bowed head, the murmured Latin formula sounded strangely familiar and delicious in her ears, with the more clearly enunciated "Ego te absolvo" towards the close.
He thought that soundedrather boyish, and remembered that he was going to the war, and was, or would soon be, a fighting man.
There were times when he seemed inspired like an improvisatore; his voice then sounded like that of a speaker heard from a distance, when too far off to enable you to understand the words.
Michael asked, and he fell to wondering why he had spoken and why his voice sounded so exactly the same as usual.
Michael wondered if this statementsounded as absurd to Mrs. Haden as it sounded to himself.
Michael supposed that somehow to God the universe must sound much as this tall street of Rouen sounded now to him at his inn window, and he realized for the first time how God must love the world.
From time to time this lonely human figure struck his instruments to test their pitch, and the low boom sounded hollowly above the murmurous audience.
For three or four days Michael was always in the company of Brother Aloysius, plying him with questions that sounded abominable to himself, when he remembered with what indignation he had rejected Garrod's offer of knowledge.
The harvest was at its height and in unseen meadows sounded the throb of the reaper and binder, while close at hand above the splash and gurgle of the rhythmic paddles could be heard the munching of cattle.
In the echoing corridor Michael's voice sounded painfully weak against his monitor's.
From time to time far-off bugles sounded above the tossing wind.
I am," murmured Stella in a strangely quiet little voice that sounded in Michael's ears like the song of a furtive melodious bird.
Then the church-clock that struck a timeless hour soundedfor him one of those moments whose significance would resist eternally whatever lying experience should endeavour to assail the truth which had made of one flashing scene a revelation.
An instant later, a call, my signal whistle, soundedfrom the rock above.
It sounded the alarm of fire, and tolled for the dead.
I had nearly reached the foot of the low bluff when a pistol shot, clear and sharp, sounded out; and I thought I heard a smothered cry in the direction Bud had taken.
Clearly came the words again as theysounded on that day.
These words had sounded in my ears on the night before the battle on the Arickaree, and again in the little cove on the low bluff at Fort Sill, the night Jean Pahusca was taunting me through the few minutes he was allowing me to live.
And through them all, the call of the prairie has sounded in my soul, the voice of a beautiful land, singing evermore its old, old song of victory and peace.
It sounded faint and mellow now behind the hills of death.
Mrs. Berry rocked on her chair, and sounded her hands together.
Her voice sounded to him like that of a broken-throated lamb, so painful and weak it was, with the plaintive stop in the utterance.
Richard's parting laugh in the train--it was explicable now: itsounded in his ears like the mockery of this base nature of ours at every endeavour to exalt and chasten it.
Deep was the Old Dog's delight to hear the praises of his Beauty soundedby such aristocratic lips as the Hon.
He sounded a bogey's alarm of contingent grave results.
The King's judgment might condemn, but his facile love of jesting made him inclined to listen to, the empty and sordid chatter of frivolity that sounded through his Court.
But he had not sounded the depths of Charles's cowardice.
I have studied you and watched you and thought of you, and sounded the depths of your lovely nature, and the result is that you are for me earth's one woman.
