The crew, suspecting from my movements that I had discovered the nature of their cargo, gave vent to a hearty peal of laughter, with which sounding in my ears, I gained the high-road.
Until this explanation was given by the governor, I was full of admiration for religion, afterwards discovered to be more loud-sounding than genuine.
Over thy lonely grave, Hard by thesounding wave, Madly the wind-gusts rave; I am alone.
But if the sounding bodies vary in only a small part of a vibration sound, they will be alternately stronger and weaker, and this is termed beats (Schwebungen), which are only produced by tones very near to each other.
One then hears the high over-tones sounding strongly up to the sixteenth, while the lower over-tones with the fundamental tone sound weak or not at all.
The length of the cavity of the mouth is the greatest insounding oo, the least in e, intermediate in a.
We can see and feel thesounding vibrations of stationary bodies.
A second is used as the unit of time, and by number of vibrations is understood the number of vibrations which the sounding body gives forth in a second of time.
A clear, sympathetic, silvery ring is produced by the sounding of the seventh with the octave immediately above it.
By the greater or less distinctness of one or another of the over-tones, sounding with the fundamental tone, various timbres of the vowel are produced.
A simple expiration does not indeed suffice for the generation of a full sounding singing tone.
But here is the very reason why a tone free from badly sounding colorings is so rarely heard.
Beloved is Draighen and its sounding shore; Beloved is the water o'er the pure sand.
With some high-sounding words about duty, Rougon endeavoured to comfort the unfortunate fellow who, having lost an eye, was swearing with exasperation at the thought that his injury would compel him to quit the service.
They gazed at each other for a moment, sounding each other with a look, before engaging in the contest.
In the provinces, where a periphrastic style is still cultivated, polemics are clothed in high-sounding phrases.
However, he perceived that he was on the wrong track, and plunged into strange bathos, a string of empty but high-sounding words, which Silvere accepted as a satisfactory proof of his civism.
They were now unable to distinguish the valley or the hills; they heard only the hoarse plaints of the bells, sounding through the deep obscurity like invisible drums, hidden they knew not where, but ever goading them on with despairing calls.
The villages scattered about the plain, on the other side of the river, were rising, sounding alarm-bells, and lighting signal fires.
However, he seemed to be sounding the ground more on behalf of a party than on his own account.
King, joyfully placing his own bugle to his lips, and sounding an answer.
The procession moved slowly along,--the passing-bell tolling each minute, and a muffled drum sounding hollowly at intervals.
I came here to avoid pursuit," replied the old hag, with a cowed manner, and in accents sounding strangely submissive after her late infuriated tone.
He grew almost to hate the people as he saw them coming and going in the mud, or heard their loud hearty voices sounding from the street.
Cowbells far up the road weresounding irregularly.
Sounding my bugle from various points along the line, almost immediately a reconnoitering force of the enemy appeared at the bridge, and being fired upon returned.
He is sounding his own depths, and out of mere shyness, at times, uses the transparent amateur trick of pretending that he was writing of someone else.
The person who received the children had then the sounding title of Governess: and French and Dancing-masters prepared the girl for the hour when contempt for her parents' deficiencies was to be substituted for affection and respect.
At a glorious banquet at Whitehall "the trumpets sounding in the midst of all that great show" put mortifying thoughts into her mind and made her consider "what if the trump of God should now sound?
While yet the voice was sounding in my ear The vision ceased; I saw the light no more: The moon was shining through the window near, And all the house was silent as before.
Ah, what won't poets say for the sake of a smooth verse, a sounding rhyme?
On listening intently, the 3d, 5th, and 8th (the common chord) of the note struck will be heard sounding all the way up for several octaves.
Though sounding soft near the organ, the tone from these musical stops seems to suffer little loss when traveling to the end of quite a large building.
The simplest form was the Doublette sounding the 15th and 22nd (the double and treble octave) of the note struck.
It had three manuals and pedals, seventysounding stops and seven couplers.
In consequence of this, this particular note will be sounding flatter in pitch than it ought to do.
By this means it was easy to prepare in advance groups of Pedal stops and couplers suited to the combination of stops sounding upon each manual and by touching a Pedal Help, to call the right group of Pedal stops into action at any moment.
Cecilia wished to know who the man was, of the mediaevally sounding name.
Yet behind these well-sounding phrases there lay, one suspects, little vigorous thought.
Without this the words of a speaker are assounding brass and tinkling cymbals.
Exaggeration, high sounding terms, flowery language, involved constructions, do not produce eloquence in the speaker.
The tube in which the thin sounding plate and the column of air vibrate acts as a resonator.
The high sounding spell-binder with his disgusting spread-eagleism cannot be muzzled by law, but he may be rendered harmless by vacant chairs and empty halls.
The operating air is forced across the sounding piece of metal from a bellows.
It has no known outlet, and a sounding line of two hundred and eighty feet found no bottom.
Presently he heard heavy footsteps sounding along the cavern, and the Giant came out.
And when he at last dozed off to sleep, he could hear the voice of Hibbert sounding a long way off.
In the four years of its existence, the paper was faithful to this grand and high sounding promise.
When he spoke, and while he spoke, his tongue was sounding in my ears as if it was jingling on the hearthstone of my childhood.
