177 Metaphors for sounding

The soundings are sand or ooze, and some oyster banks, but no rocks.

This went on for some ten minutes, and the only sound beside Semyonov's voice was Markovitch's padding steps.

Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

The only sound he heard was the rumbling of a train, gradually drawing away.

He says, "By pronouncing in a very deliberate and perfectly natural manner, the letter y, (which is a diphthong,) the unpractised student will perceive, that the sound produced, is compound; being formed, at its opening, of the obscure sound of oo as heard in oo-ze, which sound rapidly slides into that of i, and then advances to that of ee as heard in e-ve, and on which it gradually passes off into silence.

Instead to his ears, growing louder moment by moment, penetrating the illy constructed walls, came an indistinct roar; rising, lowering, yet ever constant: a sound unlike any other on earth, distinctive as the silence preceding had been typicalthe clamour of angry, menacing human voices en masse.

The last sound that reaches you as you turn homewards, is the appeal of the "Sawale" or begging Fakir for a hundred rupees to help him on his pilgrimage.

"The sounds that fall on mortal ear As dew-drops pure at even, That soothe the breast, or start the tear, Are Mother, Home, and Heaven.

Far away she could hear the steady susurrus of the reaper, driven against the golden wheat, and the sound was a promise and a song to her ears.

Scarcely a leaf stirred, and the only sounds were the twittering grasshoppers and the drone of flies.

Yet now the first sounds that smote his ears as he opened his eyes were the rhythmic creak of the mine windlass and equally rhythmic, if less tuneful, chant of the men who were working it; "All-ah sa-eed!Ne-bi sa-eed!

The only sounds are the strident puffs of jets of steam, the dull rumbling of machinery, and the sudden rattle of ironwork lowered from the carts to the pavement.

As his ancient mother, Ocean, Rocked him on, through storm and calm, From the iceberg to the palm: So his drowsy ears may deem That the sound which breaks his dream Is the ever-moaning tide Washing on his vessel's side.

isn't that the mob coming?" Mr. Walters opened the shutter, and then the sound became mor

The only sound to be heard was the buzzing of their wings.

The only sounds of war were an occasional boom far to the south where the British and French faced the Turks entrenched on the heights of Achi Baba.

Hobart had not even cried out; the only audible sounds being the sharp click of the door, and the dull thud of a falling body.

The true sound of the word is Saukinong, or Place of the Sauks.

In the falling dusk the old white stones stood up like the bones of the dead themselves, and the only sound was the rustle of the wire-grass creeping over them in a dry tide.

Sound is the reflection of the Divine image.

The sound of a verse is the harbinger of the truth contained therein.

The sound of a voice issued from his lips "Here I am, Boss Simpson.

"Every sound is a mixture of three tones; as much as a ray of light is composed of three prismatic colours."Ib., p. 387.

"And you shall later learn that sound is power.

Strange though it was, yet those sounds were a subject which caused him daily apprehension.

177 Metaphors for  sounding