The noise outside grew louder, the air was rent with howls of rage and defiance.

Ah! a wordless excuse; a slight noise upstairs.

There is the pond, however; I can jump into that, I suppose: but how much more decent were it to make one's quietus under the merry greenwood tree with a cord" He stops suddenly, holding his breath; and, almost simultaneously with a sharp, rushing noise in the leaves overhead, something drops upon his shoulder.

These sounds served to cover effectually any noises he made as he felt about and made up his small pack.

The affair was kept quiet as far as possible, but gradually got noised abroad among other regiments of Her Majesty's infantry.

' A sudden noise inside.

Who has not heard a crying child in an adjoining room stop suddenly to listen for the sake of discovering whether or not the noises he heard are the regular movements of a person coming to him or merely the irregular noises of the wind or of moving furniture which do not concern him?

Very swiftly it was noised about the country, and the Breton folk made a Lay thereon, which they called the Lay of the Laustic, in their own tongue.

Therewith they met together, and each lashed and smote at the other such fell strokes that the noise thereof might easily have been heard several furlongs away.

Noise, unearthly noise, was the poetic license allowed the occupants of these cells.

"And the noise of it to you aloft, spotting the shots?"

One of the incidents which became most widely noised along the borders was the escape of the two Johnson boys, in the fall of 1788.

Marina grew faint and wide-eyed for terror, but they could not soothe her by word or touch; she sat with clasped hands, gasping for breath, listening to the low, long boom on the shores of the Lido, like muffled thunder, ceaselessly recurringthe terrible noise of the great waves beating against the sea-wallsbeating and breaking in fury, tossing their spray high in air and whirling it in clouds, like rain mists, far across the lagoon.

This last lady was immediately up in arms, and a heated discussion as to the respective skill of the two practitioners took place, everybody gradually taking sides with one or the other of the leaders, and forgetting both poor exhausted Phebe and the noise downstairs, which finally culminated in a rousing lullaby led by Bell, and lustily seconded by half a dozen others: "Slumber on, Phebe dear; Do not hear us fellows sigh!"