6892 examples of noise in sentences

" "I'm sorry for that; but the noise I heard must have been either real or ghostly, and you won't believe it's real.

" "They couldn't make a noise like human footsteps.

Lorenz Publishing Company (PWH); 22Mar76; R629198. R629199. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

But Ted, unfortunately for the success of their plan, stumbled and fell, making so much noise that Mrs. Mooney heard it.

About an hour before midnight the Master sent him to tell the gentlemen he could not sleep for the noise.

But do I hear a noise?' 'Yes,' said Sir George, listening.

Hence it happened that Soanewho after dismissing his servant had gone for a moment into the adjacent chamberheard a slight noise in the room he had left; and, returning quickly to learn what it was, found no one, but observed the outer door shake as if some one tried it.

And she closed the door in his facesharply, yet without noise.

A second later, while the two stood listening, arrested by the noise, the door was thrown open with such violence that the candles flickered in the draught.

'I heard her, though the noise came faint-like.

says she, "I find you are very much divided in your thoughts upon the way of life that you ought to choose; be my friend, and follow me; I will lead you into the possession of pleasure, and out of the reach of pain, and remove you from all the noise and disquietude of business.

Some travellers state that the aurora are accompanied by a crackling or hissing noise; but Captain Lyon, who listened for hours, says that this is not the case, and that it is merely that the imagination cannot picture these sudden bursts of light as unaccompanied by noise.

Some travellers state that the aurora are accompanied by a crackling or hissing noise; but Captain Lyon, who listened for hours, says that this is not the case, and that it is merely that the imagination cannot picture these sudden bursts of light as unaccompanied by noise.

Above the roll of the machinery and noise of the dashing waters comes the grateful melody of happy voices, lulling the tired traveller to repose and chasing away from other faces all recollection of painful responsibilities and cares.

If this world were peopled by really thinking beings, noise of every kind would not be so universally tolerated, as indeed the most horrible and aimless form of it is.

FOOTNOTES: See Essay on Noise, p. 28.

The barrel went up and down with the walls of the hut, but I must have hit the roof, for the next thing there was a lot of smoke and noise, and Pedro's face, eyes, and mouth open, rushing out of it.

Mr. Furness declared that he heard a certain buzzing noise.

He was chased from before the church door by the other school children, who pursued him through the streets with shouts and the noise of rattles and clappers till they reached a certain suburb, where they always caught and beat him because he had betrayed the Redeemer.

cit. i. 455; The Denham Tracts, edited by Dr. James Hardy (London, 1892-1895), ii. 25 sq. Herrick, Hesperides, "Ceremonies for Christmasse": "Come, bring with a noise, My merrie merrie boyes, The Christmas log to the firing;...

Then it was found out that the change had only led to a different kind of noise, instead of destroying it altogether; and the perpetual grinding of wheels, sawing their way through the loose stones at the top, or ploughing through the wet foundation, was hardly an improvement on the music arising from the jolts and jerks along the causeway.

His blocks were nothing but pieces of wood of a hexagon shapewith no cohesion, and no foundationso that they trusted each to its own resources to resist the pressure of a wheel, or the blow of a horse's hoof; and, as might have been foreseen, they became very uneven after a short use, and had no recommendation except their cheapness and their exemption from noise.

in Regent Street, Jermyn Street, Holborn, Oxford Street, the Strand, Coventry Street, and Lombard Streetit has fully effected all that was expected from it; it has freed the streets from the distracting nuisance of incessant noise, has diminished mud, increased the value of property, and given full satisfaction to the inhabitants.

Moved by the same impulse, we all started forward; the man was not far ahead, but our moccasins made no noise in the dust and we closed up swiftly on him and were at his elbow before he heard us.

"What the devil" he began, then cocked his rifle; I threw up mine; a shrill cock-crow rang out above the noise of tramping horses; a galloping mass of horsemen burst into view behind us, coming like an avalanche.

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