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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

They did not fit in with the rakish gray motor-car, labelled "Australia," I saw after dinner, nor the young infantryman I ran across on a street corner who had been in the fighting ever since Mons and was but down "for a rest" before jumping in again, nor the busy streets and buzzing cafes.

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].

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.

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

She drew the little dagger from her girdle and meditatively cut the buzzing thing in two.

A confusion of many lights danced before her eyesa buzzing uproar filled her brainshe shot forward into space....

Here on a siding we lay all day, grilled in the heat and pestered by swarms of the buzzing scavenger vermin, while troop trains without number passed us, hurrying along the sentry-guarded railway to the lower frontiers of Belgium.

The young officer leaped nimbly into the chassis, and presently a buzzing whir told that the faithful Golden Butterfly was taking the air once more.

For a moment the buzzing whispers went about the court again, shrilling high, but instantaneously they died down, and the same tense silence prevailed.

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?