" There was a loud buzz of conversation when the court adjourned.

Suddenly, a distinct tremor shook the house, and there came a faint and distant, whirring buzz, that grew rapidly into a far, muffled screaming.

A faint buzzing was audible, broken by muffled clicks.

What happened to the logs inside, the boy could not see, but he heard loud buzzing and roaring, and from the other end of the house small cars ran out, loaded with white planks.

A prolonged, intense, sibilant buzzing in the apparatus, andnothing!...

If the line is already "busy" a slight buzz is heard, not only by "central," but by the subscriber also if he listens; "central" notifies and then disconnects you.

A silence, so sudden as to be startling, fell upon the hot and crowded room; then, as Sir Stephen grasped his son's hand, a din of voices arose, an excited buzz of congratulations and good wishes.

After the endurance of terrors that came very near turning her hair gray, she had pushed the last one out on the balcony, shut the window, and was gasping away in the airless room, her first momentary sense of security, when there struck upon her agonized ear a fiendish buzzing, and three of them came whirling back through a crack about as large as a knitting-needle.

Here, instead of the solemn calm of the barren uplands, the murmurous chanting of rills and shallow rivers, and the mystical voices that speak from the depths of the forest, I heard the fretful buzz of a human beehive.

Just then a gentle buzz sounded.

His flight is solid and impetuous, without any intermission of wing-beats,one homogeneous buzz like that of a laden bee on its way home.

Imaginary buzzings also added to her bewilderment.

Suddenly, as his eyes half closed, he heard a humming; this is one of those insupportable buzzings of insects, some of which can give fifteen or sixteen thousand beats of their wings in a second.

The insect escaped him while playing with him, and soon, arrived under the fresh branches, it arose, after throwing into Cousin Benedict's ear, which it touched lightly, the most intense but also the most ironical buzzing of its coleopter wings.

He saw few, went nowhere; and among that busy people, after the little buzz occasioned by his return had subsided, he ceased to be an object of interest or comment.

I thought" The rest was only a meaningless buzzing in Gloria's ears; she sat speechless herself, bereft of all reason for a dull moment, then harbouring quick, clear thoughts, as swift, as vivid as lightning, and in the end as blinding by their very quality of blazing light.

" A mild buzz of protest rose about him.

Through the monotonous and obtrusive buzzing of the flies might be heard the humming of a large humble bee, which kept incessantly striking its head against the ceiling.

The occasional buzz of a bee, the flutter of the leaves of the poplar, might have been the voice of the outer world in Southern Spain or Southern Italy, or anywhere else where the air is balmy.

Beth and Patsy were fairly bewildered by the numerous introductions, until names became meaningless in their ears; but Louise, perfectly composed and in no wise distracted by her surroundings or the music of the orchestra and the perpetual buzz of conversation in the crowded rooms, impressed each individual upon her memory clearly, and was not likely to blunder in regard to names or individuality in the future.

At other times these insects were alive; when their perpetual buzzing and fluttering in their transparent cages, had a very animating effect.

Sorbonne, and Montaigu, Cluny, Harcourt, the Four Nations, and a host of minor establishmentsin all, amounting to forty-twoeach added its swarms; and a pretty buzzing they created!

The Governor-General, waiting impatiently up the hallway, heard the prolonged buzzing and came to investigate.

Behind me, I was conscious of a sharp, mosquito-like buzzing.

The trees swarmed with large locusts (the cicada) quite deafening us with their shrill buzzing noise.