| 单词 | foghorn |
| 例句 | Church bells clang, and in the harbor, ships blare their foghorns and steam whistles shrill. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z A long, plaintive moan, comparable to a blast from a foghorn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They stand in the darkness amid river sounds, waves lapping, freighters blowing foghorns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Just before another blast, clear as a foghorn on a stormy sea, Old Dan’s voice rang loud and clear. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Far to the north a foghorn groaned, reaching them less as a sound than as a trembling in their bellies, as if their bodies were pipes in a somber old organ. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of them were lying on their backs with their enormous mouths wide open, and they were snoring like foghorns. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The day his boat happened into harbor, though, he couldn’t make out the bridge until he was almost under it, what with the fog; and all there was to hear were foghorns. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the humming turned gloomy under the black drapes, low and long like foghorns must sound going across the sea at night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thank your mom for the food, Gantos boy,” he said with his foghorn voice. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The entire herd was now looking their direction, making foghorn growls and stamping their hooves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z To one side was a man named Callas with a snore like a miniature foghorn itself; on the other was Dr. Philobosian, who wept in his sleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the river the freighters gliding through the lifting mist bellowed at one another, the sound of their deep foghorns echoing among the rusting file cabinets in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They swung around and above, the tern dæmon keeping close like a child to its mother, and watched the steersman adjust the course slightly as the foghorn boomed again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The creatures made deep throbbing sounds in their throats like angry foghorns. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her voice exploded through the peaceful night air like a foghorn; behind him, Harry heard Fleur and Roger fall out of their rosebush. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z People stopped talking and stared up at the boy with the foghorn voice. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z The protocol among gill-netters in such conditions was to lay on one’s foghorn at one-minute intervals and to keep a sharp ear turned toward the fog on the chance of receiving a reply. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Big old foghorn seems to be getting closer. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z At the shipping channel, the foghorn sounded again, as the boat came around to the west and picked up more speed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I ask, trying to catch my breath as the foghorns sound again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t gone far when I heard his foghorn voice holler out, “Hello, good-lookin’. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was then that he heard a boat not far off, the sound of a foghorn blown deliberately, and he turned his ear in its direction. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Other microphones capture foghorns, sea gulls and breaking waves, while fiber-optic cables and a microwave transmitter channel the symphony into a room at Fort Point. Art Show Celebrates 75 Years of the Golden Gate 2012-06-10T04:27:04Z Mr. Lombardo’s play, efficiently directed by Rob Ruggiero, is basically a diva vehicle that resurrects the Bankhead of familiar stereotype — foulmouthed, hard drinking, foghorn voiced and sex crazed — for another weary stagger across the stage. Theater Review | 'Looped': Valerie Harper Is Tallulah Bankhead on the Skids 2010-03-15T05:35:00Z Even I can hear through my usual foghorn of pessimism that it goes well. One Writer’s Diary for Television Pitch Season 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z A Buddhist monk with a foghorn voice chanted over a loudspeaker, calling all men, women and children to their places on the hard ground. Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Ostentatious singing isn’t rewarded here, and his voice is a thin foghorn, low and flat and percussive, well suited to navigating bluegrass’s polyrhythmic density. Music Review: Dierks Bentley at Highline, Raking Through Bluegrass 2010-05-06T21:18:00Z “Her voice combines an impenetrable Rhode Island accent with the volume of a New England foghorn,” Lee Olsen, artistic director of the Pacific Youth Ballet, once wrote. Maggie Black, Esteemed Ballet and Modern Dance Teacher, Dies at 85 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z From the opening track, the leader's quavery tones and foghorn effects establish the album's key contrast with Lee's exceptional light touch and springy creativity. Odean Pope/Billy Hart/Lee Smith: Odean's Three – review 2013-01-10T22:55:01Z The sea was an ongoing presence; even in Blundeston, the village where I lived, one could sit in the bright sunshine and hear foghorns. How I redesigned Noah's flood 2013-07-01T11:51:00Z “I’ve heard it’s like a foghorn, a cackle,” Drescher said carefully, balancing her plate in the lap of her little black dress. Fran Drescher, Millennial Whisperer 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z He proposed a new song that celebrates corn, one in which the word corn sounded “like a foghorn,” Clark recalled, and the songwriters were delighted when they realized the giddy, tone-setting result was better. ‘Shucked’: A Broadway Musical That Doubles Down on the Corn 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “Parade” mixed Modernist high art with low art and non-art, Cubism with aspects of street life, the noises of a typewriter, a foghorn, a pistol and more. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “Raphael before me,” he chants in a voice like a foghorn. Against all odds: the most incredible love story you'll read today 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Vocalist Biff kicks you while you're down, his voice carrying like a foghorn in a pea-souper and capable of shattering bulletproof glass at 60 paces. Saxon: 'Metal fans are the most loyal in the world' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-01-16T12:54:39Z After a while you begin to hear a low whirring undertone and a repeated sound that is a little like a very far-off foghorn. Dance Review: Poetry of Stillness, in a Moment Stretched to Infinity 2011-03-31T00:00:16Z There’s a history talk and demonstration of the antique foghorn equipment before guests are shuttled back to the mainland. They got their dream job away from it all – but what happened next? 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Souter lighthouse and its 120 decibel foghorn from the North Sea. Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition triggers Festival of the North East 2013-04-24T14:57:00Z There seems to be a wink at that at the outset: The first song opens with something like a quivering foghorn, suggesting a distance that can’t quite be overcome. Review: With ‘22, a Million,’ Bon Iver Beats a Retreat to Even Quieter Reinvention 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Opened in 1871, Souter was the first lighthouse in the world designed and built to be powered by electricity, with its foghorn kept in working condition by a dedicated team of local volunteers. Lighthouse to host 'Foghorn Requiem' 2013-04-17T18:52:08Z Who needs to tilt their head to read words like “Far strum of foghorns / Fog-insulated noises Midnight among distant chiming buoys adrift”? The place knows itself. America’s forgotten poet 2012-10-04T20:02:00Z And the grungy office, with its its boxes, files and cabinets, acquires the concrete particularity of the book with its sounds of foghorns, railroads and onrushing automobiles. Gatz – review 2012-06-14T06:00:06Z Echoing the unnerving sounds opening the earlier work, he heaves eerie noises from his body: foghorn brays, wind-filled wheezes. Rosas: Cesena – review 2012-11-09T17:37:01Z They are spending what promises to be one very fraught summer together in their shabby family vacation home, by the docks, where the foghorns wail. Review: Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville Lead a Hard-Run ‘Long Day’s Journey’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Used for centuries to guide ships away from the rocks, foghorns across the country are gradually being decommissioned as vessels rely increasingly on satellite navigation systems. Lighthouse to host 'Foghorn Requiem' 2013-04-17T18:52:08Z Under no circumstances should you use the words “foghorn” or “shattered glass.” Social Q’s: An Odd Case of Sibling Rivalry – Social Q’s 2012-08-09T20:12:15Z Souter Lighthouse and its 120 decibel foghorn from the North Sea. World's strangest orchestra - a foghorn, brass bands and 50 ships 2013-03-26T07:00:00Z His foghorn voice – as soulful in its own way as Levi Stubbs's – was distinctive, but equally the guitars on Life's a Riot still kill me. My favourite album: Life's a Riot With Spy Vs Spy by Billy Bragg 2011-08-24T14:13:00Z I heard eight individual foghorns that day, creating a kaleidoscopic, shifting chord that articulated the expanse of the bay. The Score: In Berlin, Moved by Music, Place and Memory 2011-06-16T01:49:09Z Then he began his solo with a foghorn squawk, holding it for almost four bars — tension, meet release — and moved on to a relaxed and mischievous style, somewhere between Dexter Gordon and Charlie Rouse. Music Review: The Bill McHenry Quartet at the Village Vanguard 2012-03-21T21:12:12Z And it doesn’t hurt to have the foghorn voice of Mr. Noble intoning, “If a woman gave birth to a baby whose father was an ape, would it be animal or human?” Television Review: ?Dark Matters? on Science Channel, With John Noble ? Review 2011-08-30T21:55:39Z Whether you prefer the foghorn drawl of Ms. Turner or the more soothing tones of Dr. Drew, of “Celebrity Rehab” fame, is essentially just a matter of taste. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z Mr. Riley was inspired by foghorns in San Francisco Bay, and the music conveys their distant, misty sounds, although the concept doesn’t effectively sustain the work. Music Review: Voxare Quartet Plays Terry Riley Works at Bargemusic 2010-07-25T23:55:00Z In 1981, Mr. Marshall produced one of his best-known works: “Fog Tropes,” a somber meditation that paired field recordings of foghorns in the San Francisco Bay Area with brass instruments. Ingram Marshall, Minimalist Composer of Mystical Sounds, Dies at 80 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z An armada of boats will be taking part in the performance, with their ships' horns joining three brass bands on shore, plus the star of the event - the foghorn at Souter Lighthouse. World's strangest orchestra - a foghorn, brass bands and 50 ships 2013-03-26T07:00:00Z Not the unremarkable seeming girl with the Bronx foghorn voice. Penny Marshall — actor, director, producer and legend — did it her way 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z She of the signature foghorn effect wed the MIT lecturer and computer-science guy at their beachfront home on Sunday in front of an "intimate group of family and friends," her assistant told The Times. Fran Drescher of 'The Nanny' marries Shiva Ayyadurai 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Once a prehistoric denizen of the deeps, it comes ashore on a tsunami tide, tall as a thunderhead, shrugging off artillery as it bellows a foghorn scream. Godzilla Is Warning Us Again about the Threats to Our Planet 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z I grew up fishing with my dad on Fauntleroy Cove, feasting on fried rockfish and falling asleep to ferryboat foghorns. Duwamish River: Federal funding pathways 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “It fried everything. It fried the light, the circuit breakers, the foghorn,” Lyon said Wednesday. Lighthouse featured in ‘Forrest Gump’ goes dark after lightning strike 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z His voice has always been a bit of a foghorn — higher or lower according to age, habits and the song at hand — but it has a rare emotional urgency. Rockumentary master Martin Scorsese does it again, with New York Dolls' David Johansen 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z That lighthouse was replaced in 1932 with the one standing today, along with the accompanying foghorn. You can finally visit Anacapa Island — and see how it's changed in a year without tourists 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z There were few of the well-oiled protest features, including protest marshals, union leaders holding long banners or demonstrators blowing foghorns. Singing and Banging, French Lawmakers Vow to Stop Pension Change 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z And they have turned Mr. Reddé into a leading character of French demonstrations, a kind of “Where’s Waldo?” who invariably appears alongside unionists blowing foghorns and battalions of armor-clad riot police. The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the Most 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Coast Guard Station Southwest Harbor, which is responsible for the navigational aid, removed the light for repairs on Monday and is still working on getting the foghorn working, he said. Lighthouse featured in ‘Forrest Gump’ goes dark after lightning strike 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z For now, though, the allure of a U.S. job and the life and opportunities that come with it remain a powerful “foghorn” for immigrants “for areas like Silicon Valley and Seattle,” Pedersen said. For some foreign workers, Seattle tech layoffs can mean a forced exit 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Signs of civilization litter Anacapa, from the shipwrecks underwater to the runaway landscaping choices, from the lighthouse and foghorn to roads and buildings. You can finally visit Anacapa Island — and see how it's changed in a year without tourists 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Kinstler, however, is not a foghorn writer; she is a cross-examiner leaping in from multiple sides, probing, flipping, slicing, exposing shades of gray. Review | A history of the Holocaust that probes the use and abuse of memory 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Soumya: As part of your reporting, you toured the Golden Gate Bridge’s five foghorns, which typically aren’t open to the public. Why Fog Is So Vital to Life in California 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Bridge employees include those with the never-ending task of painting the bridge — fog or shine — and those who control something that tourists do not see, but certainly hear: the foghorns. The Fog of San Francisco 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Pence's big zinger of the night was a swipe at Lake — "Arizona Republicans don't need a governor that supported Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton" — which he delivered like a blast of foghorn. Mike Pence's devotion will be his downfall 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z If the gulls can learn to accept the foghorn, I guess I can, too. You can finally visit Anacapa Island — and see how it's changed in a year without tourists 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The giant six-storey structure - in the shape of a Chinese imperial palace - crept past yachts a fraction of its size earlier this month before a foghorn signalled its entry into the open sea. Hong Kong: Why business is not giving up on the Asian financial hub 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z But what it also does is present the need for foghorns. Why Fog Is So Vital to Life in California 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Now, driving across the bridge, I can point out to my family where those foghorns are. The Fog of San Francisco 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Like the booming foghorn sound that represents the hell beast in “Hellbound,” Lowe dropped a deep contrabass note in his front title. How 'Candyman' score pulls you in — and gets under your skin 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z As I arrived on Anacapa Island, my vision of an idyllic slice of the natural world was shattered by a loud moan — the sound of the foghorn. You can finally visit Anacapa Island — and see how it's changed in a year without tourists 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z A Democratic witness said Mr. Trump’s speech to his supporters ahead of the riot was a racist foghorn. Republicans, strategists differ on ways to beat back Dems’ accusations of racism 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z And for a lot of people around here the foghorns are the soundtrack of summer. Why Fog Is So Vital to Life in California 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Sir Michael Caine, who played Horatio in the televised production, recalled in his autobiography how Plummer had to race through his soliloquies lest they be interrupted by a persistent nearby foghorn. Christopher Plummer's career highlights - Sound of Music, Sherlock and Star Trek 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z A towering man, he had a foghorn laugh that cut through the tedium and tension of high-pressure athletics. ‘I Let You Down’: Klete Keller’s Path From Olympics to Capitol Riot 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Justin begins his talk with the obvious — the foghorn droning behind us and the lighthouse barely visible through the fog just a quarter mile away. You can finally visit Anacapa Island — and see how it's changed in a year without tourists 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z But the bright colors don’t distract from the constant cacophony: ventilators belching like foghorns, monitors beeping, machines whirring - all trying to keep even one more person from adding to the death toll. Nurses fear what’s to come: ‘Walk down our unit for a day’ 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The way some people might have crickets at night, they have foghorns, and I just love that. Why Fog Is So Vital to Life in California 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z These should be replaced with a more traditional and harmonious foghorn. Rant & Rave: A high school teacher thanks their students for a good opening week online 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Just as easily, though, the trill can mimic the atmospheric enchantment of a foghorn off in the misty distance. In Schubert's last sonata, the trill's the thing 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z We have somehow devolved from dog whistle to foghorn politics. We've reached the 'mad emperor' stage, and it's terrifying to behold | Richard Wolffe 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The televisions were muted, and you could hear a foghorn from the bay now and again, burping through the rectangle of daylight at the front door. Does Coronavirus Mean the End of Sports as We Know Them? 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z I think there’d be something missing if suddenly we didn’t have fog and had no need for foghorns. Why Fog Is So Vital to Life in California 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z No gathering of lawmakers or TV broadcasters would be complete without protests by the “Stop Brexit Man,” also known as Steve Bray, and his simple and booming message relayed through a foghorn. Britain’s EU Journey: When Brexit chaos ensued 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z When the Democrats work diligently to build their legal case, the Republicans foghorn disinformation and confusion. Opinion | Republicans are staging a UFC cage fight on impeachment while Democrats play chess 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z For two minutes, the foghorn echoed across Pearl Harbor. Meet the neglected 43-year-old stepchild of the U.S. military industrial complex 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z “This is not a dog whistle; it’s a foghorn. This is plain, out-and-out racism.” Jamestown ceremony marks birth of democracy in America; black Va. legislators skip because of Trump 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z If a minister wants to get a message through to the voters, they forget the dog whistle and go straight for the foghorn. Why Australia's PM is talking of dark threats and 'evil' 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Her speech in public, described as everything from a “raspy yawp” to a foghorn, was deceptive, friends said: When alone with them, she was perfectly capable of less stylized enunciation and enjoyed serious conversation. Carol Channing Dies at 97; a Larger-Than-Life Broadway Star 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Playing Dolly, she barely descended into boom, even in When the Parade Passes By, written for Merman-level foghorn delivery. Carol Channing: the sparky Broadway and film star with a husky comic drawl 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z In winter, the silence is only broken by church bells and the sound of a foghorn. Kevin Spacey case brings attention to Nantucket – where many go to avoid spotlight 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z And please, stop ringing that inane bell, foghorn or train whistle on third downs. Letters: Is this going to be worth it for UCLA? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z We hugged the shoreline avoiding ships, foghorn at the ready, the radio transmitting calls for a boat that disappeared here the night before. Setting sail: one woman's year alone at sea 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Right now, one of her loudest detractors is that expostulating foghorn Morgan, who believes women should be equal to men just as long their wardrobes meet his exacting age-appropriate standards. All hail Madonna, a 60-year-old woman who won’t be quiet | Fiona Sturges 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The lighthouse’s light flashes every five seconds and its foghorn sounds two seconds of every 15 seconds, he said. After 30 Years, She’s Turning In Her Keys to the Montauk Lighthouse 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z “I just think it’s changing the culture. I think it’s a very negative thing for Europe. I think it’s very negative,” he said, as if we didn’t hear him the first time with the foghorn. Let's drop the euphemisms: Donald Trump is a racist president 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Fortunately, after getting the word from the White House that Mnuchin “speaks for the administration” on the debt ceiling, Mulvaney this week saluted, silenced his foghorn and executed an about-face. Opinion | A debt-ceiling crisis is on its way. Yes, again. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z “I was born in Duluth – industrial town, shipyards, ore docks, grain elevators, mainline train yards, switching yards. It’s on the banks of Lake Superior, built on granite rock. Lot of foghorns, sailors, loggers, storms, blizzards.” Why we all need to be more like Bob Dylan 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Run The Jewels 3 builds on their popularity as larger-than-life foghorns for the good fight. Run The Jewels on Trump: 'It's going to be horrible' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z But these days, whenever pundits are questioned over their foghorn opinions, they instantly jump on social media in an attempt to get the final say. The Fiver Christmas Awards 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Among other tasks, he successfully acted on a Duluth pizza tycoon’s request to save a historic foghorn in the harbor. The Democrats’ Fight Over Finance 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Laboratory experiments showed that the fish's vocalization, a low-frequency hum like a foghorn, is controlled by a light-driven internal clock and the hormone melatonin, known to govern sleep and wake cycles, researchers said. Moonlight sonata: fish's nocturnal 'singing' secrets revealed 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Clients’ personal quirks were behind other requests: for beach-house windows that open facing a foghorn; for bedroom floors that feel just so underfoot. Yale’s New Dean of Architecture on Plywood and Mood Lighting 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z On one side, unsurprisingly, was Farage, the foghorn of the Leave campaign, headed upriver on board the good ship Edwardian, proudly in league with a flotilla of fishing boats. Britain Votes, Maybe for the Last Time, on Whether to Stand Alone 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Navy destroyers, foghorns blaring, were groping their way through dense fog five miles off Newport Beach. On a foggy night, a deadly naval disaster off Newport Beach 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z And yet he is not a foghorn for the “good old days” but an exuberant voice for the current game offering just the right sprinkle of nostalgia. Vin Scully’s Sweet-Voiced Finale 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z On Puget Sound’s shore, a working waterfront remains, with foghorns and a briny grittiness. Dude, Where’s My City? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Trump doesn’t tweet dog whistles, he blasts foghorns. Trump’s dangerous dance with bigotry 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z But, while many of these Party regulars used a dog whistle, Trump is using a foghorn. The Problem with the “Never Trump” Movement 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Graham's essay cranked that irony to foghorn decibels. A big-shot venture capitalist says we need inequality. What do economists say? 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But after fans roundly criticized it, taking to Twitter to demand that the team #KeepOurGoalHorn, the Islanders returned to their old foghorn. New York Today: Hockey Moves 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The beacon is to be lit for about two minutes and the foghorn sounded before it’s all powered down again. 2 iconic New England lighthouses are back in the spotlight 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The beacon is to be lit for about two minutes and the foghorn sounded before it's all powered down again. Pair of iconic New England lighthouses back in the spotlight, to be re-lit in separate events 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z As we landed, a man jumped down from his perch on a foghorn to help unload the helicopter. Light tower off NC coast now hosts bed and breakfast 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Rusty foghorns and prized Fresnel lenses show the range of basic and sophisticated tools to guide navigation. Two Good Reasons to Visit St. George: The National Lighthouse Museum and Sri Lankan Food 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Unlike the foghorn, the team’s mascot, Sparky the Dragon, and its skating cheerleading squad, the Ice Girls, won’t be making the move to Brooklyn. New York Today: Hockey Moves 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z After a stiflingly hot day, the evening reading at the water’s edge was a relaxed occasion, disturbed only by the occasional foghorn of a passing ship. Text and the city: writers in New York remain fascinated by its storied past 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Banging drums, sounding foghorns and waving Greek flags, the mood was celebratory amid a large presence of riot police. Greek Voters Face Uncertain Future 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The likes of Carrey—today’s foghorn, tomorrow’s footnote—will vanish with them. 'Jim Carrey, Please Shut Up About Vaccines' 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z On the roof of the white building are the giant twin horns of the "Hawsker Bull", as the foghorn was known. National Trust asks public to record seaside sounds - BBC News 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z The phone foghorn Consider it a one-man play, with the office a theatre, the staff the audience, and the sole role taken on by the most annoying person in the office. The new office pests: how many are there in your workplace? 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z For Mr. Albrecht, executive toys are “aspirational,” as he put it — less tools for provoking creativity than foghorns of identity and status in a sea of corporate homogeneity. Designing Distraction: Executive Toys 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z YORK, Maine - For Tom Bradbury and his neighbors, the town foghorn is more than just a familiar, wistful noise - it represents something greater, like peace itself. AP-NH—New Hampshire News Digest 6 pm, NH 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Coast Guard officials said its plan is for the conversions to eventually leave Maine with no more of the old-time foghorn activation systems. Residents alarmed as Coast Guard changes foghorns 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Princess Cruises included a few unique touches for the Regal Princess, such as the foghorn, which plays the first few notes of “The Love Boat” theme song upon departure. TRAVEL CRUISE: ‘Love Boat’ crew launches new Princess Cruises ship 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Oyster toadfish hum and blare like foghorns by quickly contracting muscles attached to their swim bladders. When Fish Shout 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z He’s trying to fashion a bedroom as far as possible from the foghorn - a challenging feat in a building with about 750 feet of livable space. Plenty of light! Feds are selling off lighthouses 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z And in the case of one particularly vocal breed, the creatures have even been strapped to the masts of Polynesian boats to act as foghorns. Chicken project gets off the ground 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The converted foghorns range from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Maine’s Mistake Island, about 50 miles from Canada. Residents alarmed as Coast Guard changes foghorns 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Some describe it as sounding like a broken washing machine, an intermittent foghorn, or some say it sounds like French - though that's if you're at the clearer end of speaking. To sign or to speak 2014-04-05T12:04:49Z With a blast from its foghorn, a huge cargo ship nudges its way down the Huangpu River, past Shanghai's skyscrapers on one side and the old waterfront of the Bund on the other. Tensions flare over government 'land grabs' in China 2013-11-09T00:53:44Z Only slightly more expensive is Fog House, the site of a former foghorn on the Welsh island of Anglesey. How much does a good sea view cost? 2013-07-11T23:12:21Z In his statement to Indian police, which Reuters has obtained, Captain Vitelli said it was only after he heard gunshots that he increased to full speed, sounded the foghorn and the general alarm. Insight: Murder trial of Italian marines in India navigates murky waters 2013-06-09T21:08:20Z In Kennebunkport, Bradbury - who directs the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust, which owns the Goat Island Light where the foghorn is located - said support for the old horn is deep. Residents alarmed as Coast Guard changes foghorns 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z On cloudy days, at intervals, the sound of a foghorn pierced the air, like the conch shells that were blown in Calcutta to ward off evil. Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love.” 2013-06-03T04:00:00Z Her voice is sandpapery with a hint of foghorn. From war babies to billionaires: Vietnam's wealthiest women 2013-03-24T00:07:01Z In the perfect absence of thundering house music, the call of a lone, coarse-throated bird thunders like a foghorn. The Philippines's Strange Paradise 2013-03-14T20:46:15Z Freddy said he, too, never heard a foghorn at any time before or after the shots were fired. Insight: Murder trial of Italian marines in India navigates murky waters 2013-06-09T21:08:20Z “For the majority, certainly not for all, but for the majority there’s a certain comfort to hearing the foghorn,” Bradbury said. Residents alarmed as Coast Guard changes foghorns 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Already hopped up on Red Bull, tempered by a liter of coconut water, Woodman darts about the cabin, occasionally breaking conversation to unleash his trademark excited wail that friends liken to a foghorn. The Mad Billionaire Behind GoPro: The World's Hottest Camera Company 2013-03-04T11:59:53Z The dull roar of the surf, the screeching gulls, the groaning seals and a distant foghorn all layer into a cacophony on the island. Scientists in Washington State Adopt Tiny Island as Climate-Change Bellwether 2012-10-06T18:38:42Z Under the legislation, 50 percent of the removal cost would be put back into maintenance of the structures, such as keeping foghorns and night lights working. Conservationists Lobby to Save Gulf Oil Rigs for Research 2012-09-12T17:15:17.223Z Expect to see lots of red, white and blue on bridges and buildings along the river bank and hear church bells, fireworks, music and foghorns. Diamond Jubilee: Explore the Pageant 2012-05-23T08:42:01Z The Coast Guard is converting Maine and New Hampshire foghorns that are automated to activate in the presence of fog. Residents alarmed as Coast Guard changes foghorns 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Promptly at 12:30 P.M. on April 10, 1912, the thunderous blasts of the ’s foghorns signified that the liner was preparing to sail as tugs nudged it away from its pier. The Extraordinary Story of the White Star Liner Titanic 2012-04-04T13:15:00.213Z She was lost in an ocean of tears, I'd have had to use a foghorn. Six One-Act Plays 2012-03-26T02:00:36.910Z The mariner has learned how deceptive is a foghorn; when it is blowing he knows that a ship is somewhere in the general region, but usually he has no definite idea where. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z I’ve been thinking lately of the saying of one wise man: ‘Hitherto there has been too much foghorn and too little bugle in our treatment of the boys!’ A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z The foghorn, I was informed, was only blown when the lighthouse-keeper suspected some ship was likely to make for the rocks! Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z It hung over the sea like a heavy fog, and the foghorn could be heard in the distance moaning like a distracted animal calling for its young. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z Then a dim light showed far out at sea and there sounded out the distant echo of the foghorn of a steamer. The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z The rise of the Tea Party owes a great deal to Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV, the foghorn of extremism that changed the nature of political discourse. Britain must resist Tea Party thinking 2011-08-01T21:00:00Z "Do you want me to be a foghorn, or a river steam tug?" Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z Here came again the long, doleful drone of the foghorn. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z We never sighted Ushant light at all, and steamed far past Cherbourg, to which we had to return dead slow, our dreary foghorn sounding continually all night long. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z Thus for six mortal hours we lay helplessly tossing in the fairway, listening to the miserable discord of foghorns, syrens, and whistles, but unable to see the ship's length away from us. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z The foghorn blasts at 6 p.m. when the gates open. For One Minor League Baseball Team, Never an Empty Seat 2011-07-02T16:20:28Z He marched forward and began to work the foot-power foghorn vigorously. The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht 2011-05-19T02:00:07.110Z When I was elected, I do not think there was a single lighthouse, or fog signal, or foghorn, on the waters of Puget Sound, and I secured the establishment of quite a number of them. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Her voice was a little less like a foghorn. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z My first thought was that equipping a ref with a foghorn might work. The Fiver 2011-03-10T16:16:25Z Think how tightly he grips US politics between his Fox News foghorn and the Wall Street Journal. There is still a way to win this Murdoch media war 2011-03-04T20:30:00Z Service craft of all sizes and descriptions were feeling their way up and down the broad estuary, making the welkin ring with the discordant braying on their syrens and foghorns. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Sometimes at night she hears foghorns and boat whistles from the East River. The Hunt: A Move in the Direction of ?More Life? 2011-02-11T07:59:26Z The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves, and Conanicut and Newport hear each other’s foghorns. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z When thousands of the horns are blown in a stadium, they create a buzzing din, described as similar to the wail of foghorns or the trumpeting of a herd of elephants. Plastic horns will give World Cup in South Africa a noisy soundtrack 2010-06-09T05:12:00Z Or indeed that sort of woman, because thankfully in these more liberated times being a foul-mouthed psychotic foghorn is no longer an exclusively male preserve. Touchline terrors, behold Shiro Kameda, the eastern master 2010-04-15T23:10:00Z The foghorns are extra loud in Sea Cliff, like we’re alone on a ship sailing through the thickest fog. Jennifer Egan: “Ask Me If I Care.” 2010-03-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Lee, who began her career as an actress, was not so much a television personality as a force of nature, simultaneously encapsulating Ralph Nader, a favorite Jewish grandmother and a foghorn. Fran Lee, Whose Work Led to Pooper-Scooper Law, Is Dead at 99 2010-02-20T03:53:00Z "Most extraordinary thing," he bellowed in his foghorn tones. A Traitor's Wooing He says we may talk through his speaking trumpet, and sound the foghorn, and turn the wheel just a tiny piece. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story Then again the jarring blast of the foghorn rolled out, and—on Heaven! A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Again rose the hoot of that spectral foghorn, and as it ceased I lifted up my voice and shouted like mad. A Veldt Vendetta Leaning out of the aperture, he could scarcely distinguish her form as she stood up in the boat, and in the distance he could hear foghorns from passing steamers blowing. Jacob's Ladder By one bell the mist had grown denser, and the Mate sung out sudden and angrily for the foghorn to be sounded. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Lately he had become familiar with the sonorous foghorn, and besides, he was not a woodsman and knew nothing of the penetration of the thin, vibrant signal. The Missourian Then the hoarse, rasping screech of the foghorn rent the night as the ship drove slowly through the smother, whose steamy folds blotted out the stars. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance "You don't mean to tell me that all that noise of broken crockery and foghorns was deliberately put together by a human brain?" General Bramble It is close upon sunset, the foresail is backed, the pilot's signal is flying, and the foghorn sounding, and soon we shall see if there is any life or not in this weird new land. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The foghorn was blown constantly, and occasionally came an answering sound from another vessel. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy Sound signals made by the whistle, foghorn, bugle, trumpet, and drum may be used in a fog, mist, falling snow, or at night. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition The saloon passengers, already alarmed and uneasy by the repeated blasts of the foghorn, came pouring up the companion; crowding, crushing past each other in their furious panic. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance A huge P. & O. liner, heavily laden with passengers and mails, she had to proceed cautiously, like some blind giant, emitting every two minutes a dolorous wail from her foghorns. To Love This air is used for blowing the foghorns, and when they sound everybody in the locality knows it. Some Naval Yarns "Seven shillings," shouted somebody with a voice like a foghorn. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 In applying the code to whistle, foghorn, bugle, or trumpet, one short blast indicates a dot and one long blast a dash. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition She tried her best; but every night—or rather towards daylight—that terrible infant would raise its fearsome voice, and wail like a foghorn in mortal agony. Pâkia 1901 She nodded her approval at meeting such a kindred spirit, and replaced the foghorn on the ground beside her. Mufti Enough air is stored in those tanks," declared Mr. Cutting, "to keep the foghorns going for twenty minutes. Some Naval Yarns Turning in his seat and bringing his wide white shirt-front to bear full upon his victim, he raised a foghorn voice and asked the dreaded question: "Ever been abroad before?" Ship-Bored The deep note of the Goorkha's foghorn sounded close at hand. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 I only wish every bush and tree would not drip, drip like a horrid kind of clock ticking; and the foghorns over at the lighthouses moo regularly every half minute. The Thing from the Lake Then, realizing that my throat was modeled on the foghorn plan, I said, "If I can't sing a note, I'll surely roast the folks who can!" Rippling Rhymes Often a foghorn comparatively near at hand will belch forth its warning and its voice be swallowed up in this strange stillness. Steve and the Steam Engine In the lower harbor there still was a chorus of sirens and foghorns, as craft of almost every description made way toward the metropolis or out toward the open sea. The Brand of Silence A Detective Story Above it all rose the hooting of foghorns and sirens, while the band made its noise too—thump and throb of drums, scream of pipes, and red-hot flare of brass instruments. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Soon its loud staccatto rose above the wail of the foghorn. Every Man for Himself The whistles no longer were tooting; instead, they were blowing with long foghorn blasts, an eerie sound in the cold, crisp night,—a sound of foreboding, of danger. The White Desert When he spoke, his voice was like a deep foghorn that had suddenly learned the use of vowels. Danger in Deep Space He listened to the bellowing sirens and foghorns, drank in the raucous cries of the ship's officers, strained his ears for the land sounds that rolled now and then across the waters. The Brand of Silence A Detective Story The discordant bleat of a foghorn came again, apparently right ahead. The Stowaway Girl Oscar turned to the mob—by now, it was that, pure and simple—and roared, in a voice like a foghorn, "Shut up and listen!" Four-Day Planet Fitzgerald, in the lead with the light, stopped short, looked around, and then gave a groan that came through his helmet-speaker like a foghorn. Omnilingual As Tom supervised the loading of the equipment, a foghorn voice boomed, "'Mornin', buckaroos!" Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung He gives a cheery trump of satisfaction from his foghorn, when he learns that his sail and his guests have been fetched from land. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World One can almost hear that foghorn voice of his. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier At midnight the "youth of the town" made the devil of a din by striking sixteen bells, blowing whistles on the siren, hooting with the foghorn, cheering and singing. South with Scott His leathery features expand easily into a smile as he delivers, in his slow, concise, foghorn voice, comments that are as thought-provoking as they are witty. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s It drew closer, swelling into a foghorn drone as the lab door swung open. Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung When the sea mists arise it has a powerful foghorn which can be heard for many miles. Pictures in Colour of the Isle of Wight What was left of Elixir let a yell out of it like a foghorn and bolted. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 As for buoys, foghorns, day beacons, etc., they are almost uncounted. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Himan Brown also created the sound of London's foghorns and Big Ben for Bulldog Drummond, the laugh of the fat Nero Wolfe, and the never-to-be-forgotten train that roared under Park Avenue into Grand Central Station. 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s He was as short as she was tall ... a diminutive man, but virile ... with a deep, hoarse voice resonant like a foghorn. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative This invention is in the nature of a powerful foghorn. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls The captain of the ship, for instance, is expected to recognize the direction of a vessel passing in the fog by the signals of the foghorn. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency The foghorn in his throat continued to rumble intermittently, now in crescendo, now in diminuendo. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West The steam turned a laugh quickly into a roar up the foghorn. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 This time there was a compass and water breaker aboard, and a foghorn in the stern sheets in case of need. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" Day was a vast confusion, or rather a wide fabric, of sounds; great and little sounds all woven together, voices, footfalls, wheels, far-off whistles and foghorns, flies buzzing in the sun. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 And what a din there was, with the shrieking of the whistle and the foghorns and the sirens and the clamor of bells. A Minstrel in France Presently a hand-bellows foghorn jarred like a corncrake, and there rattled out of the mist a big ship literally above us. Traffics and Discoveries "You'll learn a song of your own some fine day," said the steam, as he flew up the foghorn for one last bellow. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 "He's found it," he roared, his voice almost rivaling the hoarseness of the far-off foghorn. The Wheel O' Fortune He kept urging them to action, his foghorn growl of, "Come on, boys!" was a slogan of victory! T. Haviland Hicks Senior Mr. Pemberton-Billing has never heard the most sepulchral voice in the House of Commons, and Lord Charles Beresford does not know how a foghorn sounds when it becomes articulate. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough As for the imperturbable Forster, he blew his nose a second time, then a third time, with the noise of a real foghorn. Topsy-Turvy Romano was a Regular officer, about 28 years old, with twinkling brown eyes and a voice like a foghorn even when speaking from a short distance away, but a fine singer. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement "Hello, there!" he sang out in his big foghorn voice, thrusting the door open with his foot and getting under the shelter, and shaking the rain from his head and shoulders. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane The boys for their part waved with all their might and Billy blew a blast on the foghorn. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest Many foghorns, far and near, were barking their lugubrious warnings; the choppy waves were slashing against the vessel with a steady beat; the bobbling of the ship increased as it plunged deeper into the cross-seas. The Hollow of Her Hand The foghorn was going incessantly, an' there was a lot o' shouting and running about on deck. Many Cargoes He is the happy possessor of a pair of powerful lungs, which are ably seconded by a foghorn voice, and he howls at the other man like an enraged bull. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran Lucky the rain has driven off the fog or the foghorn would keep you awake. Galusha the Magnificent One genius invented a species of foghorn which proved very effective—in waking up all Empire east of the tracks, except "the Sloth." Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers The new arrival had a foghorn voice and used it in hearty volume in telling Mr. Files that his music was all right and mighty timely! When Egypt Went Broke And deepmoved all, Simon trumping compassion from foghorn nose, all laughing they brought him forth, Ben Dollard, in right good cheer. Ulysses You roar like a foghorn on a dark night. The Belgian Twins One woman, she says to me yesterday, she says—I was showin' her the foghorn, and says she: 'Do you have to turn a crank to make it go?' Galusha the Magnificent Captain Perez, who had discovered the physician on the Nickerson piazza, was standing close by with his fingers in his mouth, whistling with the regularity of a foghorn. Cap'n Eri And then, suddenly, there came from the arcades behind us the overtones of her father's unmistakable voice; it was as if a modified foghorn had boomed with a reed inside it. The Good Soldier All he heard was the moan of distant foghorns and the whistling of the gusts in trees somewhere at his left. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights He was a big man with a voice like a foghorn. The Vision Splendid A chair was provided, again the lights were dimmed, and the seance resumed, punctuated now at minute intervals by the shattering bellows of the great foghorn. Galusha the Magnificent It has appeared in literature in our time in the most erratic and opposite shapes, set to almost inaudible music by Walter Pater and enunciated through a foghorn by Walt Whitman. What's Wrong with the World You never heard any such music from my foghorn. Whirligigs The breakers pounded in the dark below him, and from afar the foghorns moaned and wailed. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights And when, last Wednesday at supper," she went on, "Zach said something about the engine for the foghorn not working just as it should, father's answer showed us both what was in his mind. Galusha the Magnificent With April came the fogs, and the great foghorn bellowed and howled night after night. Galusha the Magnificent Anybody but a graven image would notice the Gould's Bluffs foghorn. Galusha the Magnificent Once a minute the foghorn blew and once a minute Galusha Bangs jumped as if he were hearing it for the first time. Galusha the Magnificent Night was coming on and, to accent the loneliness, from somewhere in the dusky dimness a great foghorn groaned at intervals. Galusha the Magnificent The foghorn boomed just here, but even after the sound had subdued Little Cherry Blossom seemed to find it difficult to proceed. Galusha the Magnificent A hand crank to make the fourth highest-power foghorn on the coast blow! Galusha the Magnificent As prophesied by Mr. Zacheus Bloomer, the fog had come in and Zacheus, faithful to his duties as associate guardian of that section of the coast, had turned loose the great foghorn. Galusha the Magnificent If it does that means I've got to tend foghorn as well as light. Galusha the Magnificent |
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