So saying he turned and signed to Gefroi with his finger; as for Sir Jocelyn, he only curled a lock of his long hair, and hummed beneath his breath.

And those about them watched that mighty struggle, hushed for wonder of it; even Sir Jocelyn had forgot his lock of hair, and hummed no more.

Fire!" From near and far men came runningmen affrighted and dazed with sleep, a pushing, jostling, unordered throng, and the air hummed with the babel of their voices.

" The train was out of the mountains and in a country of scattering hills, but here it struck a steep grade and settled down to a grind of slow labor; the rails hummed, and suspense filled the freight car.

And Chloe hummed around the room like a bee; she folded up the petals of light that I had unbudded when I wanted to see what manner of face I had.

His clothes were of no fashion that I could remember, except that they bore liberal markings of pot black, and he had a curious fashion of going about with his mouth open, which gave him a vacant look until you came near enough to perceive him busy about an endless hummed, wordless tune.

The mechanism of the patent log hummed and clicked more obtrusively.

Ashamed to show the tenderness that filled his honest heart, he hummed "Kingdom Coming," relit his cigar, and presently began to talk again.

Here the birds trilled, the bees hummed in the bluebells, the brook roared and sang on its way to the sea; while over all the harmony of the world brooded a silence too great to be disturbed.

In the intense instant of expectancy his brain appeared to expand as a bubble, and his ears tingled and hummed as though a cloud of flies were buzzing therein.

" Andy reasoned this out from the facility with which the man hummed out a tune he had heard the circus orchestra play.

A half-forgotten couplet hummed through his brain.

As these thoughts rush-ed through his mind, they gave him much com-fort; and he even hummed an air as he trot-ted on, to show his man-li-ness and cou-rage.

He hummed a low tune behind inscrutable lips.

The locusts hummed drowsily, as if they were almost asleep, and the frogs in the ponds sent out an occasional muffled croak.

I was turbulently joyous, and so I winged a little while around Sophie and Aaron, hummed a good-night in Chloe's ears, and found that the canny soul was luxuriating in the idea that the icy lady was to be thawed into the acceptance of sundry confections which she was basketing to carry with her when I went out.

He strongly hummed his tune.

The workman hummed again his last two lines.

" He hummed as he walked lightly over to the table and helped himself to a cigarette.

He seemed very well pleased with himself, and then he hummed: "Hier sur le pont d'Avignon J'ai oui chanter la belle Lon, la." "Your danger is great!" repeated Robert.

The two paced back to the porch, which hummed with talk.

As the car hummed down the long trail from the inn he played his part with all the discretion of which he was capable; and he had learned many things since the days when he had fallen over his own awkward feet on the way to the blackboard.

Flashes of fire appeared now and then in the fog ahead of them, and bullets hummed over their heads.

The bullet hummed by his cheek.

Not a swallow waved his wing nor an insect hummed in that barren immensity.