A shrill piping came over the water as the crew was mustered amidships and the boarding-stairs lowered.

It was fit music for such a scene, for it seemed neither of heaven nor earth, but the soul of the great god Pan come back to earth to charm those nameless rocks with his wild, sweet piping.

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And this should be surely the monstrous piping of the Great Gas Fountain, that you do well mind.

As the door flew open, the sound beat out at us, with an effect impossible to explain to one who has not heard itwith a certain, horrible personal note in it; as if in there in the darkness you could picture the room rocking and creaking in a mad, vile glee to its own filthy piping and whistling and hooning.

And then, picture the bustle at the different headquarters, the stir amongst the signalers, the frantic pipings of the telephone "buzzers," the sharp calls.

"A shady freshness, chafers whirring, A little piping of leaf-hid birds; A flutter of wings, a fitful stirring, A cloud to the eastward, snowy as curds.

Was it the mere piping of a flute that had reft it from her?

They were startled by the sound of a clear, musical piping, coming apparently from the tangle of bushes behind them.

Cease your wanton sports, your noisy pipings, your profane dances, your filthy tipplings.

A forlorn bird here and there made a thin piping, as it flitted homelessly amid the bleached long grasses, and the frail silk of the milkweed pods came floating along ghostlike on the evening breeze.

"When you are quite through your histrionic efforts," he suggested, apologetically, "I will proceed with my amorous pipings.

The weak pipings of Cupid were mingled with the chorus of the saintsthe sanctity of the temple known as the "meeting-house" was desecrated by proceedings more in keeping with the shrine of Venusand the inspired writings themselves were used as the medium of amatory and wanton flirtation by the defendant in his sacred capacity as Deacon.

Now he had a great longing for the touch of his mother and the smile of his father, the soft speech of Jeannie and the eager pipings of wee Jimsie.

And presently, in a great while, the roaring was sunk to a far and monstrous piping; but in the end to no more than a far and uncertain whistling, that yet did catch strange echoes in the night.

Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.