709 adjectives to describe sounds

I had gone, perhaps, a hundred yards, when, suddenly, it seemed to me that I caught a faint sound, somewhere along the passage behind.

The bolt comes out of its hold, with a slight, ringing sound and I stagger on my feet, grasping at the great, central bolt, for support.

Being come very nigh, Beltane checked his horse and was about to dismount, when Roger, uttering a sudden gasping cry, cowered to his knees, for in the air about them was a sound very sweet to hearthe whisper of lute-strings softly plucked by skilled and cunning fingers, and thereafter a man's voice, rich and melodious, brake forth into tender singing: and the words were these: "O moon!

Through the trees there had grown upon our ears a distant sound.

I was tramping across an igloo there a couple of days ago, and I heard a strange little muffled sound, more like a snared rabbit than anything else.

Ah, it is a touching thing, to see some great philanthropist come forward, at the call of Duty and his Publisher (perhaps also quickened by the hollow sound emitted by his treasure-box), and compress himself into the absurdly small compass of a few pages 18mo., in order to afford himself the exalted pleasure of holding simple and godly converse with children at large!

At first he could not identify the sound, although it was a familiar sound.

As I neared it, I heard a dull, rumbling sound, that grew quickly into a roar, split with deeper crashes, and up from the Pit drove a fresh volume of dust.

"But who would suppose that such a tiny little frogling could make such a loud, shrill, and ear-piercing sound?

Into the mouth of the bowl, two or three inches from the diaphragm, my host spoke one by one a series of articulate but single sounds, beginning with â, a, aa, au, o, oo, ou, u, y or ei (long), i (short), oi, e, which I afterwards found to be the twelve vowels of their language.

Suddenly there was a sharp clicking sound, then a cry, and in an instant all was bustle and confusion at the Marlborough Steel Works.

At length the pleasant sound of oars, and voices in jolly converse, fell upon his ear, and he shouted.

Evadne longed to throw herself beside him and pillow the dear head upon her bosom, but Dr. Danvers had whispered, "A sudden sound may start the hemorrhage again,the slightest shock is sure to."

As I leaned forward ready to fasten on the man when he should offer violence I heard a peculiar sound as of a loose piece of wood or iron striking the sill.

This is very old-fashioned phraseology, and a week before, most likely, I should have smiled (though always with kindness) at Dr. Moncrieff's credulity; but there was a great comfort, whether rational or otherwise I cannot say, in the mere sound of the words.

There was a subdued yell of triumph, the door was slammed to with a bang, and the muffled sound of stockinged feet thudding up the neighbouring staircase showed that the enemy were in full retreat.

Suddenly, I heard a soft noise on the path, outside in the gardenpad, pad, pad, it went, with a stealthy, curious sound.

Oh, Sir! we are astonish'd with the dreadful sound of the sweetest Musick that ever Mortal heard, but know not whence it comes.

Gradually he became aware of another sound hard by, a sharp sound yet musical, and in a little, knew it for the "twang" of a swift-drawn bow-string.

He looked up at an unusual sound.

He was conscious of cruel torment and a clumsy transfer into another vehicle, confused sounds of groans, curses, waving lights, and the hissing of escaping steam almost in his very ears.

The sounds at sea, ominous of shipwreck, will also occur to the minds of some.

There was a distinct sound of breaking branches and crackling underwood.

" She did not hear the cock's shrill sound, Only the blueflies buzzing round.

The true answer to which is: "A letter is an alphabetic character, which commonly represents some elementary sound of human articulation, or speech.

709 adjectives to describe  sounds