Now, being away from the noise of the spouting cataract, we were able to hear one another speak, without having to shout at the tops of our voices, and I asked Tonnison what he thought of the placeI told him that I didn't like it, and that the sooner we were out of it the better I should be pleased.

My attention was distracted by a noise in the direction of the back door.

My friend was a man of courage, and, like myself, had been around the world some; had spent a good deal of time, first and last, in the woods, was familiar with most of the legitimate forest sounds, and had heard all the ten thousand voices that belong in the wilderness, but we had never before listened to a noise like that.

With as light a step and as little noise as possible, I descended into the garden from the veranda, and approaching the alcove on the side where its foliage was thickest, I found that the beauty, of which I had before thought so highly, did not appear less on a closer survey.

I began to think it was a myth, the viewless spirit of the bog, that made all the noises about which the learned professors had been disputing.

Then came an afternoon when, returning from a stalk after sheep, I heard strange and shocking noises from the laboratory.

Often, in the course of that painful suspense, did I fancy I heard a noise at the lattice in Veenah's apartment, or in some other part of the mansion; and once I persuaded myself I saw a light: but these illusions served only to aggravate my disappointment.

And, in the midst of this storm, the night came; and then, within the space of another minute, the storm had passed, and there was only the constant 'blur' of the world-noise on my hearing.

When he had made a great noise with that end of him which talked easiest, he cried out, "Oh dear, oh dear!

" "Yes." "And cannot you remember now any other noises than those you speak of?

Darrin!" "Hepson must enjoy hearing more noise for Darrin than for himself," reflected Jetson moodily.

I was poring upon these papers and was wondering whether I could fit them to a newer measure, when I heard a slight noise behind me.

I don't like to be woke up, when rounding a pleasant dream, by their growling and screaming, spitting and whining, groaning and crying, and the hundred other nameless noises by which they frighten sleep from our pillows.

"Theyse a quare noise without.

" Antonio ceased, for the gondola of the state came with a rushing noise to the side of his own boat, where it was suddenly stopped by a backward sweep of the oars.

" It was soon noised around that the race was to take place, and the river bank speedily became lined with students anxious to see how the contest would terminate.

Hooping-Cough is generally preceded by the moaning noise during sleep, which even adults threatened with the disorder cannot avoid: it is followed by violent fits of coughing, which little can be done to relieve.

As one hears noises through a dream, long powerless to connect them logically with familiar happenings, so now did Gloria absently hearken to Gratton calling from the foot of the stairs.

It is true enough what the governor says about quietness, but the novelty of the mission turned the heads of the people, and made a great noise among them.

"One hardly knows which is the most terrific," said Eve, involuntarily, as soon as the door closed on them"the noise within, or the noise without!"

Then, after a little parley, the drawbridge was lowered, and the portcullis was raised, and he rode with a great noise into the stone-paved courtyard of the castle.

But the American sentries saw no furtive French Canadians gliding through that dark November night and heard no suspicious noises above the regular ripple of the eddying island current.

If he were to try again, Mike would not find it so easy to negotiate, without making a dangerous noise over the job.

During the night we heard a noise outside of the house, and soon the dogs began barking loudly.

My father" Noises near the open window interrupted him.