The explosive snorts indicated that the locomotive labored up the last steep pitch, and Lister sat down by the rails.

He taught himself to write, by copying the letters of a printed book as he lay watching his flock on the hillside, and believed that he had reached the utmost pitch of his ambition when he first found that his artless rhymes could touch the heart of the ewe-milker who partook the shelter of his mantle during the passing storm.

A reckless path goes across its face with a sharp pitch to the ocean.

The buoyant voice acquired by correct-pitch-control; a new scientific method of training.

Or whether benevolence, constructed upon a logical scale, would not be merely nominal, whether duty, raised to too lofty a pitch of refinement, might not sink into callous indifference or hollow selfishness?

Its first discoverers, of course, were not bound to see that a pitch lake of ninety-nine acres was no more wonderful than any of the little pitch wells'spues' or 'galls,' as we should call them in Hampshirea yard across; or any one of the tiny veins and lumps of pitch which abound in the surrounding forests; and no less wonderful than if it had covered ninety-nine thousand acres instead of ninety- nine.

It is not impossible to descend it, as there is no abrupt pitch, but such a trial would seem next to madness.

She raised her voice to its normal pitch again, as I had done.

The soldiers who had been sent out to examine the country, returned at the end of eight days, and reported they had been all through the island, quite to the smoking mountain, and that the smoke we saw proceeded from a fire at its bottom, where there was a spring of liquid pitch which ran into the sea.

The single lantern, flickering and flaring as it swung constantly to the sharp pitching of the vessel, cast grotesque shadows, and failed entirely to penetrate the corners.

Were the Opposition benches to be inflamed to an unusual pitch of "sacred vehemence," because he gave them plainly to understand there was not a pin to choose between Ministers and Opposition?

This new cause of offence was so grave that she could not forgive the levity of the King more readily than the heartless insolence of his mistress; and she carried her resentment to so extreme a pitch that she refused to receive him in her apartments.

" George Saintsbury's verdict is approved by the majority of the greatest modern critics of Milton: "In loftinesssublimity of thought, and majesty of expression, both sustained at almost superhuman pitch, he has no superior, and no rival except Dante.

Where the devil's Mr. Feltram?" called the voice of the baronet, at a fierce pitch, along the passage.

'A-aA-aA-aA-a' sang Cordova at an inconceivable pitch.

Absolute pitch.

And I warn you that child is wrought up to a highly dangerous pitch of excitement.

He was assuredly a very calm and self-possessed lover, and it was conceivable that his reception of the girl, strung up, as she was, to an acute pitch of emotion, might have been somewhat in the nature of an anticlimax.

Not that all music will do so, but certain sounds, certain vibrations, at once key me up to the requisite pitch, and off I go.

"Snapper" Brown, urged by the public-spirited 'Enery Irving, exhausted himself in playing the "Marseillaise" at the fullest pitch of his lungs and mouth-organ.

He was now worked up to a feverish pitch of expectancy.

Screws of two blades, to secure a maximum efficiency, must have a finer pitch than screws of four. 605.

In addition to his forward pitch, his back was immensely broad.

Three times in succession Reddy failed to get the ball over the plate, and the man evidently had made up his mind that he was to get his base on balls, for at the fourth pitch he dropped his bat and started for first base, only to be called back by the umpire's voice declaring a strike.

His imagination, now wrought up to a frenzied pitch by the awful scene, distinguished in every moan of the blast the shrieks of a fallen spirit; and the wind, as if to increase his misery, raised its voice and swept through the sacred building with tremendous power, howling, and shrieking, and gibbering as it passed.