Mac's voice was machine-madeas innocent of modulation as a buzz-saw, and with the same uncompromising finality as the shooting of a bolt.

There was a buzzing noise, such as you hear in a tropical forest on a hot summer day.

Gharials, for example, often court each other by making a loud buzzing sound.

All during that day a thought would bother his brain like a buzzing fly: how peculiar that a man could want to order a new suit of clothes a few hours before he died.

She turned obediently from a glorious spread of gloxinias, and he made a way for her through the buzzing crowd to the entrance.

how very soon This silly little fly, Hearing his wily, flattering words, Came slowly flitting by; With buzzing wings she hung aloft, Then near and nearer drew Thought only of her brilliant eyes, And green and purple hue; Thought only of her crested head Poor foolish thing!

Buzz bomb from fairyland.

Just then a gnat came humming by, and the Elephant said, "Do you see that wretched little buzzing insect?

He took us, therefore, at a buzzing clip through the Bois, along one flank of the magnificent Forest of Soigne, with its miles of green- trunked beech trees, and by way of the royal park of Tervueren.

It is still early, but dinner is overnot the club dinner with its buzzing conversation, nor yet the restaurant dinner, hurried into the ten minutes between someone's momentous speech and the leader that has to be written on it.

He will now have a fresh start in life, and will have a chance to become something better than a miserable old man living in a wretched hut with no friends or companions but buzzing bees.

List to my buzzing cry!

But at the same moment an arm of friendly strength comes round my shouldersa friendly voice sounds in my buzzing ears.

He had a glass in one hand, a cigarette in the other, and he was raking his rowels rhythmically up and down the erstwhile varnished bar in buzzing accompaniment, the while he chanted with much enthusiasm: "How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy? How old is she, charming Billy?

Do you suppose that he would not sweep that man away, as easily and as quickly as we do a buzzing gnat when it torments us?

And, stooping over me, for Henna's sake Cleared my poor buzzing head and sent me back Breathless, with leaping heart along the track.

[owl]; chirp, cheep, chirrup, twitter, cuckoo, warble, trill, tweet, pipe, whistle [small birds]; hum [insects, hummingbird]; buzz [flying insects, bugs]; hiss [snakes, geese]; blatter^; ratatat [woodpecker].

from tent to tent, Why press in crowds the buzzing multitude?

Both heating and cooling apparatus could be installed in the shape of a motor to replace the punkah man and the present buzz-wheel fan, and to give fresh air without the opening of windows which leads to half our housekeeping miseries.

The buzzing question ran, "What great unknown genius can this be?"

The car trembled, the machinery began to whirthen came a tremendous buzzing roar, a violent shaking of the car, followed by sharp explosions, and silence.

In the Hunter, on the other hand, the divine gift which distinguishes us from beasts was located between his front teeth and his lips, whence the sounds broke forth in a wonderful sonorous gravity and fulness and a buzzing sibilancy.

[Macbeth]; soft-buzzing slander [Thomson]; virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes [Hamlet].

So I'll just sit here, ... and smoke, ... and talk away in a buzz-song, ... and that will fix" * *

The boy was playing with a small fly-trap, wherein he had already imprisoned a vast number of buzzing sufferers.