A fragrant, dry, wheaty smell, mingled with dust, came on the soft summer breeze, and a faint silken rustle.

There was a slight rustle at the back window.

A fragrant, dry, wheaty smell, mingled with dust, came on the soft summer breeze, and a faint silken rustle.

They moved so softly that they escaped unheardunless Beaumaroy were right in the notion that his ear caught a little rustle of the bracken.

Even when the grand anthem had swelled to its highest pitch, I could distinctly hear the varying tones of individual trees,Spruce, and Fir, and Pine, and leafless Oak,and even the infinitely gentle rustle of the withered grasses at my feet.

The fitful night-wind rustles by, Breathing many a wailing sigh O Day!

There was time for no morea violent rustle, a boyish laugh, and down swung the slender tree, with the young man clinging to the top.

A subdued rustle, a swaying as of barley in a gentle breeze and the prayer was over.

" He sat looking straight before him, with dull eyes that never moved; nor did he stir at the dry rustle and scrape of the matting sail, slowly hoisted above him.

" When Angel had gone promptly at three, as likely as not another step would be heard coming down the passage, and a feminine rustle, suggesting a fuller foliage of skirts, pause outside the door, then a sort of brotherly-sisterly knock.

The crisp rustle of her dress came to him as she rose to her feet.

It brought a silken, sweeping rustle, a whispering of the bearded grain.

No, there was not a breath, not the stirring of a sole on wood, not the infinitesimal rustle of any fabric.

But leave me thus where I may hear The leafy rustle of the waltz, The shell-like murmur in my ear, The silken whisper fairy-false Of unseen rainbows circling near, And the glad shuddering of the walls.

" Just as he was thinking this, he heard a light rustle over his head, and a second later something which resembled a birch stump stood on the ground beside him.

And, as of old, when I had called to her, she came swiftly with a luxurious rustle of fragrant skirts, like the sound of the west wind among the summer trees, or the swish and sway of the foam about the feet of Aphrodite.

" He left the room, leaving Bogle alone, to listen to the melancholy rustle of peeling wall-paper within and the steady crackling of bullets without.

And whilst its leaves continued their melodious rustle the palm remembered how once, long, long ago, a glorious human being had visited the oasis.

" The swishing swelled to a mighty rustle as the door opened.

It was left to a later, perhaps a wiser and a sadder, generation to gaze with fruitless and often only half sincere longing at the shepherd-boy asleep under the shadow of the thorn, lulled by the low monotonous rustle of the grazing flock.

" "What's wrong with my playing now?" said Jennie, stopping and twirling round on the music-stool with a monstrous rustle of flounces.

rumor, m., noise, murmur, sound, rumor, rustle.

Only the persistent drip, drip of the rain, however, and the occasional rustle of a bird, broke the silence.

Once in a while one of them shifted his perch with an ominous rustle.

As if she had not heard her lady's remark, the maid went on: "I'd go off to sleep, and then suddenly, I'd awake and hear this peculiar rustle, ma'am, like a dress swishing alongan old-fashioned, rich, soft silk, such as ladies wore in the old days, when I was a child.