Then, as I turned homeward, I heard a short, unintelligible noise, among the bushes to my right.

Anything is allowable which comes out ahead, which adds to the dollar-pile, or which makes the loudest advertising noise!

On his ear, there still came a confused noise of cries, shouts, reports of firearms and boom of artillery.

"Stop all unnecessary noise!" bellowed the watch officer from the bridge of the "Massachusetts."

Here I counsel every man who must have a corner to himself to fix his study in the attic, for the only way to avoid noise without wasteful complication is to be above it.

In a little, we crept both of us so close to the door as the chests would allow, and there we crouched, listening; but could not tell what manner of thing it might be which produced so strange a noise.

Before we had traversed half the distance from the fort to the thicket on the westerly side, the rain was falling heavily, and the wind whistling at such a rate as to have drowned any ordinary noise we might make in forcing our way through the foliage.

It was long after midnight now, and if one listened carefully he could catch the customary noises of the woods at such a time, from the soft crooning of the breeze as it sighed through the pine tops, to the occasional note of some night-bird calling to its mate, or the plaintive voice of a hungry young coon waiting impatiently the return of its foraging mother.

" Mrs. Hill, standing a little way off with fear on her face, uttered an inarticulate noise, and took a step towards the inspector and her daughter.

In response to their light taps, a square of brick-work large enough to leave a space for a man to crawl through crumbled upon Jack and Dick, who held their bodies closely pressed against the débris to prevent too loud a noise.

There is something of an unavoidable embarras in making what is called a great figure in the world; [it] takes off from the happiness of life; I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great estates and titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings.

[putting his own away] No revolvers, please. Albert: Why not? The Toff: Because I don't want any noise at my party.

A brave whistling kept out the other noises.

The sound of this knocking against the door, and of the cries that accompanied it, and the rush towards the opening when any one was brought in, caused a hideous continuous noise and scuffle which was agony to my brain.

I took it up agin, and 'ad just poured out a drop o' whisky when I distinctly 'eard a hissing noise and then a little moan.

MY NERVES WILL NO LONGER BEAR THE NOISE OF THESE SNEEZING CRICKETS.

Forthwith arose the noise and cry of war, and on either side the people put themselves in motion.

The workmen of the enterprise, who lived about 325 feet above this mill and about 650 feet from the south abutment, heard nothing of it, the wind having carried the noise in an opposite direction.

And all about me the Land to begin again to give out the noises of the Monsters; and to send forth new and peculiar noises, as that there did be more awaked in the Land than did be ever heard by me before.

But, particularlyisn't it funny?when they're not there, because I can't stand their noise.

But in spite of the prevailing calm, he perceived that there was a surf upon the rocks, and a noise of many waters.

Judging by the little intervals of silence that followed the slight noises made by the breaking of twigs, he was investigating each yard of the way.

In the forecastle Master Coppin was singing: "Come, bring with a noise, My merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts' desiring.

What means this riotous noise?

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