254 adverbs to describe how to sounding

By way of proving its progress, he showed us a composition by a man who was deaf and dumb, in praise of Morosofia, who, merely by the use of his eyes and hands, had made an ingenious and high-sounding piece of eloquence, though I confess that the sense was somewhat obscure.

He undid one of the packets, with an ear on the sudden sounds outside in the passage.

The slang of everyday energy sounded strangely from dying lipsalmost a whisper, and yet like a far-off bugle calling a captive to battle.

Voices were there great and eloquent, such as are familiar in the courts above, which sounded forth in the spectators' ears earnest as those who plead for life and death.

Canst thou not give us something?" "Surely," answered Allan readily; for he was no third-rate songster that must be asked again and again, but said "yes" or "no" at the first bidding; so, taking up his harp, he ran his fingers lightly over the sweetly sounding strings, and all was hushed about the cloth.

In the most quiet room it would not have sounded louder than a continual, light hissing noise.

The blows sounded loudly; blood broke out under the terrific pounding.

There were many fine-sounding principles in the air, but they were unrelated to each other; and the conditions of teaching were likely to crush the finest endeavours, and to make impossible a teaching that could be called educative.

At times, the metallic rattle of a dog's chain, sounded faintly.

It was a very still night, scarcely a sound, but not so dark.

"I think this thing'll work nowfor a spell, anyhow," Shade Buckheath's voice sounded sharply from the road behind them.

The dusty highway lay all white betwixt the dark hedgerows, and along it walked four fellows like four shadows, the pat of their feet sounding loud, and their voices, as they talked, ringing clear upon the silence of the air.

So deep this sound, that though it speak It cannot by a sense so weak Be entertained.

"I've always loved the old rascalbut I never thought he'd do that," he said; and his voice sounded queer to Kazan.

Indeed, it moved; it became more distant, then again the notes sounded more distinctly, and now as if the player were in the open air.

The night-wind began to blow soon after dark; at first only a gentle breathing, but increasing toward midnight to a rough gale that fell upon my leafy roof in ragged surges like a cascade, bearing wild sounds from the crags overhead.

cried Little John; and even as he spoke, a bugle horn sounded shrilly and a clothyard shaft whistled within an inch of the Sheriff's head.

how oddly will it sound, that I must ask my child forgiveness.

He exploits a quaint and lovable egoism with extraordinary skill; and though his delicately figured and latinized sentences commonly sound platitudinous and trivial when they are translated into rough Saxon prose, as they stand they are rich and melodious enough.

And pleasantly indeed it sounded in the stillness and repose of that summer night in that wild region.

All was as black as coal, and the gloom was filled with a hubbub of uproar and confusion, above which sounded continually the shrieking of women's voices.

It is a wonderfully clever play, you know ... don't blush, Mr. Author!" "I heard the story long ago," Beatrice observed, "only of course it sounded very differently then, and we never dreamed that it would really be produced.

What's that?" Ta-ra-ra-ta-ra-ta! sounded musically in the corridors.

Though the sense of the common rights of mankind, the only rights that are entirely indefeasible, might have justified them in the deposition of their king; they declined insisting, before Philip, on a pretension which is commonly so disagreeable to sovereigns, and which sounds harshly in the royal ears.

And he would make divers Instruments of Music to sound in an high Tower, so merrily, that it was Joy to hear; and no Man should see the Craft thereof.

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