40 Metaphors for noises

Such shall the noise be, and the wild disorder (If things eternal may be like these earthly), Such the dire terror when the great Archangel Shakes the creation; Tears the strong pillars of the vault of heaven, Breaks up old marble, the repose of princes.

The noise we heard was the branches rustling in the wind.

that the same noise which would occasion deafness in some, should be a specific for it in others!

The faint musical note was another little gray bird singing the delight of his soul as he perched himself upon a twig; the light shuffling noise was the tread of a bear hunting succulent nuts; a caw-caw so distant that it was like an echo was the voice of a circling crow, and the tiny trickling noise that only the keenest ear could have heard was made by a brook a yard wide taking a terrific plunge over a precipice six inches high.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption.

I remember also, wondering if the noise of breaking glass that had waked me somewhat from my dreams a night or two previously, had been the work of this indescribable Thing; for on the morning following that night, the glass in the skylight had been smashed.

For the trade-wind had fallen dead; the everlasting roar of the surf was gone; and the only noise was the crashing of branches, snapped by the weight of the clammy dust.

The noise now became deafening; shouts of defiance, insulting expressions, and every kind of abusive epithet were bandied about, and the women and children in the bush kept up a wailing cry all the while rising and falling in cadence.

But no one could tellno noise had been heardthe shutters of the room were safely closedthe door was lockedthe key was in his pocket.

That dim little noise his breathless fellows could just hear was the wild hullabaloo the foolish Crows had set up to drown out the voices of Tug and History, as they gave the Lakerim yell.

Noise, that is to say, extreme noise, might also be a nuisance, and in England the interference with a man's right to light and air.

At that moment a sudden sound in the wood startled him from his reverie, and he peered, a scared expression on his face, certain that the noise he had heard was Father Moran's footstep.

The one noise in the Market Square was the bell of a hawker selling warm pikelets at a penny each for the high tea of the tradesmen.

*** The statement of the Allied Food Commission, that there are more sheep in Germany to-day than in 1914, has come as a surprise to those who imagined that the loud bleating noise was chiefly Herr SCHEIDEMANN.

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The most prominent noise perhaps was the hum of the fans.

In the course of his awful narrative, he told us, that the noise which had so appalled him, as he lay among the blood-stained rocks, was indeed the acting of a new cruelty of the usurper.

What is become of woman's light step?the firm, light, quick step we have been asking for? Unnecessary noise, then, is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted either on sick or well.

in the morning it turned out that the noise had been only the snoring of a certain enormous, but peaceable, giantthe giant Skrymir, who lay peaceably sleeping near by; and this, that they took for a house, was merely his glove thrown aside there: the door was the glove-wrist; the little closet they had fled into was the thumb!

The noise was the barking of dogs, and it seemed to come from a piece of woods on the other side of the field which lay to the right of the road.

The pirates were smashing the chests that held the gold, and to us in our prison the noise of their work was ominousas if they were building a gallows and we were condemned men.

The noise of the door closing behind him was the passing of the last bit of quiet water across which a landing to the bank might still have been possible.

The stillness of death prevailed in the towna sort of unburied Pompeii through its narrow lanes, up and down zig-zag stairs cut in the rock, we sauntered alone, and the noise of our iron-shod heels on the pavement, was the only sound we heard.

A noise might once be music; it has ceased to enjoy such possibilities.

The sudden noise (which happily produced no panic) in His Majesty's Theatre was merely Miss LILY BRAYTON dropping the clothes she was not wearing.

40 Metaphors for  noises