Then the stir of the wind in the trees, the bleat of sheep, the trill of mocking-birds lulled her to sleep.
For a time she lay at ease listening to the trill of birds and the trickle of water.
Defn: A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C.
The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue.
His head was in his breast; his body was bent over his saddle-bow; again and again a trill of light laughter came from his lips.
Startling effects are obtained by a confusion of keys, confusion of rhythms, sudden contrasts from an overpowering tutti to the stridulous whirring of empty fifths on the violins, a trill on the flutes, or a dissonant mutter of the basses.
If it is any palliation of my crime that I am cold from head to foot when I hear sweet music; or that the trill of a little bird sends a tear to my eyes and a prayer to my lips, I confess also to this weakness.
The rich notes rang higher and higher, filling the languid air, and drowning the trillof the mockingbirds.
The four young women talked on until a long, clear trill announced the return of the other half of the exploring party.
The bobolink has lost, with his pied coat, the merry lilt that tinkled so continually over the buttercups and daisies of the June meadows; rarely the song sparrow utters the trill that cheered us in the doubtful days of early spring.
All around, from the drift of floating and stranded water weeds, arises the dry, crackling croak of frogs, and from sunny pools the vibrant trill of toads.
The upland plover wails his greeting to the tussocked pastures, where day and night rings the shrill chorus of the hylas and the trill of the toads continually trembles in the soft air.
In such a situation a man is refreshed by the trill of a curse.
On one occasion in Labrador the bird remained in the air circling and repeatedly trilling for five minutes by the watch, and continued to trill after it had reached the ground.
Imagine the sounds thus produced by the water run together into a steady and rapid trill some 5 to 10 seconds in length, and the note of this sandpiper is represented.
This is, I suppose, the full love flight song, and is not often heard in its entirety, but the first quavering trill is not uncommon, a single bird or member of a flock singing this as he flies over.
In the air it emits a short sweet trill which is rapidly repeated, and with each song burst the wings are rapidly vibrated.
There was a little trill of derisive laughter from the other side of the room, where Lord Robert had put the spray down noisily and turned to look out into the street.
The trillof the blue-bird was a thrill; and the first song of the robin was full of lilac and apple blossoms.
The blue bird called down in his flight, with his trill of gladness, and the robins flooded the leafless trees and the lawn with gushes of purest melody.
It was nothing for my sister Marie to strike the 4-line e a hundred times in succession, and trill on it for a long time.
Von Bulow has set forth numerous directions in fingering and phrasing, giving the exact number of notes in the bass trill at the end.
Of this set I prefer the former; it abounds in octaves and ends with a long trill There is in the Klindworth edition a Mazurka, the last in the set, in the key of F sharp.
Klindworth attacks the trill on the second page with the upper tone--A flat.
A mourning-warbler came about, eating and singing alternately, after the manner of his kind, and the pretty trill of the black-throated green warbler came out of the woods.
All this in a vain search for some atom of a bird that doubtless sits through the whole, calmly perched on the topmost twig of the tallest tree, shielded by a leaf, and pours out the tantalizing trill that draws one like a magnet.
One can hardly think that they and the brown whimbrels whose musical trill at times falls softly on the ear can have been away at all.
Over their old arms the nuthatches wander up and down, calling to each other with that loud musical trill so characteristic of the springtime.
But he caught a fat fly that was passing, popped it into her mouth and struck up so pretty a trill that she fell quite in love with him again.
The trill of the telephone from below checked her bitter thoughts, and hurrying downstairs into the hall, she lifted the receiver and held it to her ear.
The sounds he heard when he stopped during these cautious resting intervals were the splashes of fish breaking water, the low hum of insects, and the trill of frogs.
The trill of a northern frog was music, but that of these great, silver-throated jungle frogs was more than music.
Prominent among these was the trill of river frogs.
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