The roar and drumming in the forest made a soft, blurring undertone of sound.

He could never get it to hold, and I remember as an undertone to Pulz's reading, the rumble of strange, exasperated oaths.

Old Heck half groaned, "whatwhat sort of aa'Movement' did she say it was, anyhow?" "Swiss, probably!" came in a chuckling undertone from the direction of the Ramblin' Kid's bed.

" "I fancy I'll need mine all night," said Laura in an undertone with a wry little grimace, as Violet went back for the candles.

returned Sylvia, tingling at the first clear striking of the note of disapproval she had felt for so many weeks like an undertone in her life.

Presently a shabby, furtive little rat of a man nudged his elbow, and Dupont followed him to a corner, where they confabulated in undertones for many minutes; while Lanyard loitered just outside their normal range of vision.

It is interspersed with irrelevant fancies, visions and imaginings, a chain of tied notes heard as an undertone through the action on the surface.

But he gave no signs of defeat, nor, outwardly, of disquiet; he forbore to retaliate at Oxford: and the sermons at St. Mary's continued, penetrating and searching as ever, perhaps with something more pathetic and anxious in their undertone than before.

"Well, yer needn't bite a feller's head off," muttered he, in the same undertone as before.

There were a few words exchanged in an undertone between my wife and Mabel, which I did not catch.

He talked to Peter in undertones about the finishing of the casket, how much the Knights of Tabor would pay, what Peter wanted.