"When I entered the room it was twelve o'clockone had sounded before there was the least stir or appearance of anything, then the ticking noise you have described was distinctly audible.

Then a fumbling noise was distinctly audible.

" The danger was past; with an audible sigh of relief the three youngsters clambered into the vehicle, and the next moment were bowling rapidly along in the direction of the town.

Then a faint hallo-o-o sounded, being answered in the bushes, as it seemed, just in front of where Jack and his companion stood; voices soon became audible farther along, ten or more paces.

There was, at the same instant, the audible sound of scurrying along the passage.

Judge Edwards glanced, in some surprise, from Mr. Moffat to the daring man who could choose thus to usher in his defence; and then, forgetting his own emotions, in his instinctive desire for order, rapped sharply with his gavel in correction of the audible expression of a like feeling on the part of the expectant audience.

Otto turned the ring the second time, and Aurelia's silvery accents immediately became audible to the following effect: "If that fool Otto were here, he would buy it for me.

The minister began so simply that it seemed almost as if his voice were only the musings of many, just become audible.

"Miss Effingham!" said Grace, advancing a step to meet the lady who entered, while her voice was scarcely audible and her limbs trembled.

Hence it necessary to pass rapidly from things visible and audible, to those which are alone seen by the eye of intellect.

They were still engaged in earnest, but scarcely audible, conversation, when Dame Elliot, who did not cease from watching her patient, observed her open her large eyes, and fix them with a look of intelligent inquiry on herself and her husband.

After a time, the deep voice of her husband, speaking very low, and to her alone, became dimly audible: "'All this is come upon us; yet have we notOur heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declinedThough thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.'

Retreating footsteps were just audible.

A muted echo of the engine-room telegraph was audible then, and the engines took up again their tireless chant.

"That is, if you feel strong enough..." "Oh, quite," Monk assured him in tones barely audible.

Major Erskine's voice was audible, giving directions to the keeper, and Helen's figure visible as she groped among the shadows of the ruined chapel for her cousin.

There was no explanation, nor any audible or visible means of making their sentiments known to each other.

The hard breathing of the Bravo was audible, but still he spoke not.

he added, in an audible prayer"There hath been good seed cast on a rock, in that youth, for a warmer or kinder heart is not in man.

The rubbing of a rope was audible, and the anchor of Antonio was lifted by a sudden jerk.

The murmured language of Donna Violetta was audible to none but him for whose paternal ear it was intended, and that dread Being whose just anger it was hoped it might lessen.

Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, boats were plying on the water within the town, and the song was still audible on the canals.

When the low tones of the Bravo were no longer audible, they were succeeded by the sullen wash of the Adriatic.

" If it did not suit them, they made no audible protest of disagreement.

The warning was distinctly audible and, with a gesture of one who abandons an untenable position, Mrs. Sykes retreated upon the kitchen.