Down through the middle of it poured the beautiful river shining and spangling in the golden light, yellow groves on its banks, and strips of brown meadow; while the whole park was astir with wild life, some of which even the noisiest and least observing of travelers must have seen had they been with me.

When he grew tired of all these sounds, and began casting about for some new thing to wake the echoes with, he all at once remembered his father's gunjust what he wanted, for it was the noisiest thing in the world.

That the Russian peasant is by nature one of the cheeriest, the noisiest, and lightest-hearted of men is only another proof of the Creator's power; for this dimly lighted "soul" has nothing to cheer him on his forlorn way but the memory of the last indulgence in strong drink and the hope of more to come.

I have sat through an Italian Opera, till, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded streets, to solace myself with sounds, which I was not obliged to follow, and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

But the noisiest, dismalest place was the palace, the heart of all Rome, where the rain and hail dinned down on marble.

At the southern end there is a large gallery, overshadowing the noisiest galaxy of Sunday infants we ever encountered.

For Sir Piers and his wife motored home at the end of July through a village decked with flags and bunting and under a triumphant arch that made Piers' little two-seater seem absurdly insignificant; while the bells in the church-tower clanged the noisiest welcome they could compass, and Graciehome for the holidaysmustered the school-children to cheer their hardest as the happy couple passed the schoolhouse gate.

"Youth turns to youth as the flower to the sun," and he was brave and noble in his pride and power; and she, gentle and loving, though an Indian woman; so quiet too, and all unlike Wanska, who was the noisiest little gossip in the village.

The three two-storeyed, verandaed hotelsone painted white, another green, the third and noisiest not painted at allblazed with lights.

Yet that was one of the noisiest days of the royal festival, and he had to plunge into some scene of high gaiety the moment after we returned.

It was the barest gallery I ever saw, and the noisiest, too, and the most truly appreciative.

" "Oh, no," replied Mr. Garie; "it is one of the most quiet and clean cities in the world, whilst this is the noisiest and dirtiest.

Some of the noisiest came over to our house, and when denied admittance threatened to knock the door down, but my father told them he had two guns ready for them, and they finally left.

The noisiest creatures up here were the jackdaws, which were constantly flying in and out of the holes in the church wall that rose above me from another and wider ledge of rock.

The banks and bridge teemed with swarming life, and all Kashmir seemed to have contributed its noisiest members to the revel.

Dave habitually did everything in the noisiest way possible, and he wound up each successive fit of sneezing with a whoop that gave him the semblance of practicing an Indian war-song, by way of fitting himself to wed a half-breed wife.

Somewhere in the obscurity a piano did its noisiest best with a popular waltz tune.

He came into the world in the house of a tailor, his good old grandfather, in the Rue Montorgueil,one of the noisiest of the Parisian streets, famous for its restaurants and the number of oysters consumed in them.

"Seeing me born," he says, "in one of the dirtiest and noisiest streets, who would have thought that I should love the woods, fields, flowers, and birds so much?"

I say, you Portugee, smallest of creatures, And noisiest for your size, shut up, and hook it!

There was but one objection, and that the location at the very corner of the busiest and noisiest streets.

CHAPTER XX THE WAR SLAVES OF ESSEN Essen, the noisiest town in the world, bulks largely in the imagination of the Entente Allies, but "Essen" is not merely one city.

But in the dear old days of which I tell, it was the sloppiest, worst-paved, worst-lighted, noisiest, narrowest, and most crowded of all the great Paris thoroughfares north of the Seine.

"Welcome, noisiest of visitors!"

The drama, in the eyes of the Parisians, is almost a sacred rite, and not even the noisiest gamin would raise his voice above a whisper when the curtain is up.