And the water soughs as it gurgles by, And the shrill wind sighs a straining.'

Only, if one paused to listen on the brink of an aven, there were odd and disturbing noises to be heard underfoot, liquid whisperings, grim chuckles, horrible gurgles, that told of subterranean streams in spate, coursing in darkness to destinations unknown, unguessable.

Between the gusts and gurgles of laughter a few more details leaked out.

Gurgles of merriment from Creoles and darkies were heard on all sides.

Then he delivered himself in an interminable series of gargles and gurgles, supplemented by a few cough-like hisses, while Wong Get translated with rapid dexterity, running verbally in and out among his words like a carriage dog between the wheels of a vehicle.

It drums on the window-panes, chuckles and gurgles at corners of houses, tinkles in spouts, makes mysterious crescendoes and arpeggio chords through the air; and all the while drops from the eaves and upper window-ledges are beating time as rhythmical and measured as that of a metronome,time to which our own souls furnish tune, sweet or sorrowful, inspiriting or saddening, as we will.

Sometimes a word came to the tip of his tongue, felt the atmosphere, as you might say, then slid back into his throat with a little protesting gurgle, and after a ten minutes' conversation with him, those little gurgles from the strangled words made me look upon him as a sort of morgue for murdered sentences.

The Professor's gurgles of joy died away slowly, and none of the others seemed inclined to break the stillness.

Their piety gurgles in a warm flood through their heart, but it has not yet mounted to their head.

But on the whole I failed to get many of those quiet gurgles of delight which are the best tribute one can pay to a funny man's work.

A stream of water, sufficient to turn half-a-dozen mills, gushes and gurgles up at the foot of the mountain.

A little way off another group of sparrows had gathered with greedy joy around some fragments of bread that had been scattered abroad by the benevolent Templars, and hard by a more sentimentally-minded pigeon, unmindful of the crumbs and the marauding sparrows, puffed out his breast and strutted and curtsied before his mate with endearing gurgles.

And all that morning, and far into late afternoon, forgetful of food, and of the cold which gradually possessed me, I sat there listening, musingcylinder after cylinder: frivolous songs, orchestras, voices of famous men whom I had spoken with, and shaken their solid hands, speaking again to me, but thick-tongued, with hoarse effort and gurgles, from out the vague void beyond the grave: most strange, most strange.

'No, no,' he gurgles and splutters.

At its foot gurgles the quiet winding stream, and far away comes the din and hum of active life, thronged with the busy crowd whose restless feet are bearing them swiftly on to the end of life's journey, where they must resign the cumbrous load and "join the pale caravan in the realms of shade.

He coos and gurgles, he seldom does anything more intelligent than to smile, and he prefers men to women.

Frank fell upon it with noisy gurgles.

" The noise of men's voices and laughterthey laugh a good deal in war time, outside the range of shellscame up to the open window; overpowered now and then by the gurgles and squawks of motor- horns, like beasts giving their death-cries.

How sweet, and soft, and bright it looked, flecked with sunbeams, and giving out little gurgles of water-laughs, as if it recognized her"Oh!

So quietly did the little stream drip and ripple its way through the canyon that it spoke only in faint and occasional gurgles.

This little property, with a considerable addition that still leaves it very small, lies beautifully upon the banks of a rill that gurgles down the side of Skiddaw; and the orchard and other parts of the grounds command a magnificent prospect of Derwent Water, the mountains of Borrowdale and Newlands.

"Oh hello!"Pipa gurgles like a stream that cannot stop running; then she breaks off all at once, and listens.

And furder on wuz the Grand Basin, a large beautiful piece of water, and back on't down a green hill seventy feet high leaps and bounds and gurgles and sings three glitterin' cascades, each one seemin' to start out from a splendid buildin' up on the hill.

There a bridge spans the brook that gurgles its elfin song to cheer the dusty traveler on its way.

Recipe for an ingenue: A pound and three-quarters of kitten, Three ounces of flounces and sighs; Add wiggles and giggles and gurgles, And ringlets and dimples and eyes.