Unless AGASSIZ is gassing us, the true seal has no sign of an ear, wherefore the deafening roar of the surf in which it delights to sport is probably no inconvenience to it.

The voice of the gale as it howled through the rigging, mingled with the creaking of timbers, and the roar of waters as they struck the vessel, was an awful wail, as it appeared to me, over bodies devoted to almost instant death.

He would start up from sleep in the nighttime at the least sound, and the roar of the December gales about the house became voices of portent that conveyed far more than the mere rushing of inarticulate winds....

This last may seem a strange assertion; but to any one who has listened critically to their sounds and analyzed their voices, the roar of the Lion is but a gigantic miau, bearing about the same proportion to that of a Cat as its stately and majestic form does to the smaller, softer, more peaceful aspect of the Cat.

That this attack had commenced we needed not to be informed, as the roar of the cannon became every instant more distinct, till we even fancied that it shook the town.

The ceaseless plash of the rain, the slow tread of the horse's hoofs in the water, the roar of a distant thunderboltthese were the only sounds they heard during the next hourduring the longer hour followingduring the hours after that.

Old Chris Dorn's roar at his son was a German roar, which did not soothe the young man's rising temper.

The roar of London is the roar of ire The lion utters in his old desire For Libya out of dim captivity.

This last may seem a strange assertion; but to any one who has listened critically to their sounds and analyzed their voices, the roar of the lion is but a gigantic meow, bearing about the same proportion to that of a cat as its stately and majestic form does to the smaller, softer, more peaceful aspect of the cat.

Tennyson wrote about "streaming London's central roar"; the roar is a gentle hum compared with the din which tingles the ears of visitors to New York.

"Ho-o-o-o-o!" Agricola's best roar was a penny trumpet to Bras-Coupé's note of joy.

The roar in his ears was the filling of a gulf.