The woods about them were full of sounds and stealthy rustlings as they strode along the forest road, and so came to that dark defile where the fight had raged.

The sun was down what time they left the hill country and came out upon a wide heath void of trees and desolate, where was a wind cold and clammy to chill the flesh, where rank-growing rush and reed stirred fitfully, filling the dark with stealthy rustlings.

Hidden skirmishings and rustlings were everywhere and something brown and furry darted across the path with a faint cry.

Then he heard indescribable rustlings, but he attributed them to the wind among the tree-tops.

Noises and rustlings were heard from all directions, and he grew so uneasy that he had to creep from under the wing and seat himself on the ground, beside the goose.

Breathings and rustlings issued now and then from this living coffin.

But all the little humming-birds gathered about her with respectful rustlings as she advanced toward us leaning on one of the young girls, and holding out her ringed hand to Mme.

Frank had good ears, and it was not long before he was sure he could hear rustlings and whisperings in the hall.

As he sat eating, in at the window came all manner of little soundstwitterings and sighings and warblings and rustlings, and all the little voices said together: "'We are the sounds of the open.

He heard the light rustlings of other animals coming to comfort and safety, and flutterings as birds settled on upthrust boughs, many of which were still covered with leaves.

He would hear any sound within a hundred yards and he would know what it was, but there was none save the rustlings of the little animals, and dawn came, peaceful and clear.

The infantry say that a scouting patrol fumbling about in the darkness in front of the forward fire trench heard suspicious soundslittle clickings of equipment and accouterments, stealthy rustlings, distant trampingand reported on their return to the trench.

Such sound as remained over the interminable breadth of that dark forest was only the faint stirrings and rustlings of the beasts of prey going to their hunting; and this was only a moving tone in the great chord of silence.

Foresters know that on certain nights the wilderness seems simply to teem with lifescratchings and rustlings in every covertand on other nights it is still and lifeless as a desert.

He had already imagined so many noises of the kind, so many misty shapes fleeing before him with little soft rustlings, so many whispers at his back and hushed cries behind the closed doors.

The light grew until it glowed with the fire of opals; through the tree-tops ran little stirs of wakefulness, and all about him were faint, furtive rustlings and whispers of the new day.

There was no ray of hope to his eye nor note of it to his earonly the cries and the rustlings back of him, driving him out.

Or, again, the same wind will play quieter airs through the green boughs, a chamber-music of silken rustlings, of feathered fans just stirring, of whisperings, and the sighs of a woman.

" There were murmurings and rustlings among the people now, and on his right he heard Brigham stirring ominously in his chair; but he nerved himself to keep on his feet, feeling he had that to say which should make them hail him as a new prophet when they understood.

There were now gaps in the earlier unbroken rows; a well-known critic trod softly out; little nervous coughs and rustlings rose up.

The girl, though soon aware of frequent rustlings near at hand, lay quiet, half-forgetful of the poisonous woman yonder.

The silence of the church was disturbed by the strange echoes and mysterious rustlings; the first day Gabriel had often turned his head in alarm, thinking he heard footsteps following him.