There was the music--the same Scotch reels and Irish jigs, played on squeaking fiddles, which were made more inharmonious by the accompaniment of shrill Pandean pipes.
There are gas-lamps flaring down in Ratcliff Highway, and the sound of squeaking fiddles and trampling feet in many public-houses tell of festivity provided for Jack-along-shore.
One root finally came loose with an audible POP, accompanied by a squeaking streak of profanity.
It shook its leaves, lifted its blossom upward at the amazed Henderson frozen in his chair, and the tiny squeaking voice said cheerily, "Hi, Pal!
Morgan tossed the globular little creatures in the ditch where they lay squeaking faintly--helpless, once-removed from the body of the host who had long since ceased to exist as a human being.
If she had been through the violent illness of the parasite's incubation, she should now have one of the squeaking little degenerates in place of a brain.
It was as much as ever I could do to keep from squeaking when I thought of my mate, and all the little ones.
He uttered a squeaking or chirping note when pleased, a hollow bark when irritated, and when frightened or angry he loudly called out "Ra, ra, ra.
At last, to their great dismay, the new dog ran squeaking up one of the window curtains, so that when the gentleman of the house returned home a few minutes after, he found the ladies in consternation, and right glad to have his assistance.
One afternoon, the commandant of Bathurst was quietly reading, when he heard a violent squeaking and hissing in the room below him, which was even with the ground, and contained stores.
The fact is, his discourse had been accompanied throughout with a subdued chorus of barking dogs, squeaking cats, and bleating lambs, to say nothing of a noisy ivory cricket that the baby was whirling with infinite delight.
Again Hans was skating toward Amsterdam on the squeaking wooden runners; again his fingers tingled against the money in his pocket; again the boyish whistle rose unconsciously to his lips.
All made up of human voices--no, the horses are helping somewhat, and the fiddles are squeaking pitifully (how it must pain fiddles to be tuned!
Now and then a man comes into the front room from the street door, his shoes squeaking hideously.
There's nothing so convinces me that I am still a little boy as the smell of tanbark and sawdust, and the sound of the clown's squeaking voice!
What then is to be said of the Abyssinian fiddle, whosesqueaking voice presided at this festive board?
When almost at the feet of the boys, and about to be seized by the marten, the squeaking chipmunk ran up a tree.
The parrot loved to ride, and its silly laugh at every jolt of the squeaking barrow usually amused Lloyd, but to-day its harsh chatter annoyed her.
The sound of a squeaking wheelbarrow had wakened her.
The squeaking was still going on within, so we knew that Dame Capybara and her family were at home.
As I got to the farther end of the beat I had marked out for myself I stopped, for I fancied that I heard some curious squeaking and grunting, not unlike that made by a litter of very young pigs.
But Baretti, in that strange book the "Tolondron," gives a derivation admirably descriptive of the peculiar squeaking nasal sound.
In this equipage they neither sing hymns, nor psalms, nor masses; but mumble a certain gibberish, as shrill and squeaking as a herd of pigs whipped on to market.
The barn swallow is heard first, followed in a day or two by the squeaking of the cliff-swallow.
Their squeaking and whirring were almost incessant.
On the shoulders of the two leaders sat Tyrker, his little eyes dancing with excitement, his thin voice squeaking comically in his attempts to pipe a German drinking-song, as he beat time with some little dark object which he was flourishing.
Told by torchlight, at a safe distance from Leif, each boulder took on the form of a squatting dwarf; and the faint squeaking of foxes became the shrieking of spirits.
That chasing the moles around and squeaking like a weasel appeals to me.
Then he ran back to join the others, but he was so glad the goat was going that he could not help jumping up into the air and squeaking as he ran.
As soon as he saw her he sat down and began squeaking so shrilly that Ellen felt like covering her ears.
The male comes on the scene only at intervals with a mouse-like squeaking note.
The channel was very narrow and shallow here and the captain's little whistle that communicated with the powers below was squeaking frantically.
I objected when the wee squeaking thing was brought in, and I objected more when you and the weemin filled up the end o' the church with a machine to turn us all deef.
That= will make things go sweetly; so we will write on the blackboard (Blackboard) Squeaking Wheels need Oil.
How much pleasanter," thought she, "are these sounds than the squeaking of the wheels.
Lion, "it will be like the effect of the first early gooseberries of the year without sugar or milk; it will be like slate pencils squeaking upon slates; like a trombone that somebody is learning to play for the first time.
Now Cromwell has to go about on foot, squeaking and squelching in those big boots, so that he never gets up to Charles, which annoys Cromwell very much.
On the plain outside there was a vast rustling, a many-voiced twittering and squeaking that was not quite bird-like in tone.
All about him were shrill twitterings, squeaking calls, squeals and scutterings.
