I could hear the hiss of the question.

The logs were hissing in the fire.

" "Just try it," Laura hissed at them dramatically from the head of the stairs.

Then from an hundred brawny throats a roar went up to heaven, a cry that hissed through clenched teeth and rang from eager lips, wilder, fiercer than before.

I admit gladly, however, my love of onions, whether they come hissing from the skillet, or lie in their first tender whiteness.

Young "Rats" commenced to hiss like a small steam-engine, while Grundy made frantic but futile attempts to reach over from the desk behind and smite him on the head with a French dictionary.

" Nancy had enough presence of mind to intercept Kitty and hiss into her ear: "Borrow a loaf of bread from Mrs. Popham, we are short; and see if you can find any way to get strawberries from Bill Harmon's; it was to have been a bread-and-milk supper on the piazza, to-night, and it must be hurriedly changed into a Consular banquet!

So many affronts, so many pinpricks, day after day, had made his heart quiver, lodging in it to sleep the sleep of lethargic vipers, and they now were awaking to shake and hiss with fury.

But, miraculously, no bullets came near them, no whistling was about their ears, no ping and smack of impacting lead hailed about themexcept, yes, just the fire of one rifle or two that sent aimed bullet after bullet hissing over them.

All shod with steel We hissed along the polished ice, in games Confederate, imitative of the chase And woodland pleasuresthe resounding horn, The pack loud-chiming and the hunted hare.

"If he said that, sir, he ought to have been hissed off the stage, sir; and turned out of the company, sir!

Poor Cooke could not plead in excuse what an actor did on being hissed for too sober a representation of a drunken part, "Ladies and gentlemen, I beg your pardon: but it is really the first time I ever was intoxicated.

When he had just turned Egypt into a funeral pile; while his curse yet blazed upon her unburied dead, and his bolts still hissed amidst her slaughter, and the smoke of her torment went upwards because she had "ROBBED THE POOR," did He license the VICTIMS of robbery to rob the poor of ALL?

They sprang here and there, and presently the thick slices of bacon were hissing on the pan, and the clouds of bacon smoke wafted through the cabin.

In a husky voice she hissed between her teeth, "I am a Dakota woman!" From her unerring long knife the enemy falls heavily at her feet.

Pap Himes's voice hissed across the loud explosive tones.

Donnegan leaped lightly to one side, and the knife, hissing past his head, buried itself in the wall, and its vibrations set up a vicious humming.

Pete spun the big Colt and shoved it back into the holster so incredibly fast that the steel hissed against the leather.

Eager for any chance I hissed under my breath; "Danger!

He got out and beckoned me to follow, which I obediently did, and together we crawled through the jungle, with the bandar-log chattering above us andfor all I know to the contrarysnakes hissing beneath our feet.

Failing in this, down he plunged fifty feet straight towards the bottom, making the reel hiss by his mad efforts to escape.

They appeared with the countenances of furies, and the snakes hissed around their temples.

He asserted that "The acceptance of such a principle would cause the clergy of England to be hissed out of the society of God's Holy Catholic Church."

She pictures that crackling wood fire, and her old terrier basking in the gentle heat, and the tea-urn hissing near by (or is it a cold bottle of beer in the portable refrigerator?)

The poplar trembles before the blast, flutters, struggles wildly, dishevels its foliage, gropes around with its feeblest branches, and hisses as in impotent passion.