| 单词 | sibilant |
| 例句 | The girl continued whispering, a steady stream of sibilants, a chant, a plea, all so low they could barely make out the words. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your attention please!” a voice blares over a sibilant bullhorn. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I noted a deliberate change in his accent—the softened hiss of the consonants in his words, the dental chh of West Bengali softening into the sibilant ss of the East. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I listened through the canvas as she whispered long hours with His Lordship, though words I could not divine, merely the hissing sibilants of collusion and intimacy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The soft consonants suggested an unthinkable obscenity, the sibilant ending whispered the family’s shame. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z You’ll be a good boy or girl in the eyes of copy editors, and will have avoided a sibilant, which many readers find ugly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A terrible, shameful image comes to me: Kamal with his delicate hands, his reassuring manner, his sibilant speech, contrasted with Scott, huge and powerful, wild, desperate. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He paused to drag on his cigarette, and exhaled the smoke in a thin, sibilant stream from his mouth. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z His voice was like the sound of a badly made flute, and sibilant with his Babylonian accent. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The father relendessly pressed forward pushing out sibilants, like a wild man. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z In the silence Harry imagined he could hear the snake hissing slightly as it coiled and uncoiled—or was it Voldemort’s sibilant sigh lingering on the air? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They called out to each other in a flowing, sibilant tongue. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His sibilant voice called in to them: “Stay where you are, little ones. I will come to you, Asmodeussss!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The last words Ragear ever heard on this earth were uttered in the adder’s sibilant hiss. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Plump, translucent lizards lived behind old pictures, and waxy, crumbling ancestors with tough toe-nails and breath that smelled of yellow maps gossiped in sibilant, papery whispers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Rendezvous, it says, terraces; the sibilants run up my spine, a shiver as if in fever. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hush, a sibilant sound attended the finish photo as it slid down to the stewards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Shielding his eyes with his hand, he fired the full clip in his automatic toward the sound of the Laughing Man’s heavy, sibilant breathing. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The daunting score calls for the two singers to hiss their sibilants; intone in solemn, high, precise unison; cry out “hell’s bells” in forbidding full voice; and even to speak. Tanglewood Holds Its 50th Celebration of Contemporary Music 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z People were invited to weigh in, and Twitter was possessed with the possessive—or at least with the “S” following the apostrophe to form the possessive of a noun ending in a sibilant. Mary Norris’s Thoughts on Pesky Possessives 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z But he differentiates them nicely; his lord of the underworld is less animalistic and more ethereal than Voldemort, with a sibilant whisper that employs the old passive-aggressive strategy for drawing attention from noisy surroundings. Need a villain? Dial Ralph Fiennes 2010-04-13T08:24:00Z Sellers, always smiling, speaks in a heavily sibilant German accent, his voice pitched high and sometimes rising to a happy shriek. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The five-minute piece, written by Jason Eckardt, consists of cries, truncated syllables and sharp sibilant sounds that appear to resemble someone angrily shushing herself. After Trauma, a Silenced Vocalist Sings Again 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Every song – all the hits, plus a handful from last year's Old Ideas – beams out pure, with a slight sibilant echo from the O2's walls. Leonard Cohen – review 2013-06-23T17:34:00Z Oldman, no slouch when it comes to devouring the scenery, plays Father Solomon as a displaced Middle European aristocrat, all sibilant S's and perfect coiffure. "Red Riding Hood": The "Showgirls" of fairy-tale movies 2011-03-10T23:01:00Z These E.T.s have a lot of trouble with sibilants. ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Because how do you spell “fabulous” without a treble “A” and a sibilant “S”? Is There a “Gay Voice”? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “I speak with an ‘s’ from Bologna,” he said, referring to a little whistle that sometimes accompanies his sibilants since the accident. After Convalescence, Muti Leads the Chicago Symphony With Fresh Physicality 2011-03-31T21:30:10Z Setting hot revelers ablaze above Mustard’s sibilant, minimal beats, YG offered a lesson in the cussword's grammatical versatility while presenting songs from his new album, "My Crazy Life." Made in America L.A.: Day 1 sizzles, Top Dawg claims throne 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The stiff simulation of determined cheer with which Jeanette often speaks has a vehemence to it, particularly in the sibilants she pronounces. Review: In ‘Wildlife,’ Passions Run Rampant 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z One day, after a particularly sibilant episode on the phone, a colleague laughed at me. Stammering: lost for words 2011-01-09T20:29:00Z Actress, "RIP" British ambient/techno producer Actress continued his romance with white noise on "RIP," shading his music into a sibilant singularity. Top 40 of 2012, Seattle and beyond 2012-12-28T14:37:05Z Poised and warm, its sopranos silvery and its sibilants fresh, the group was an engaging and evocative presence, its sound suffused with mystery and mournfulness at the end of “All we like sheep.” Review: ‘Messiah’ at the Philharmonic, Then a Flood 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z And with that deep, rumbling voice, like an organ echoing in a cathedral, he sounds the way a Renaissance pope should sound: the sibilant S’s, the luxurious drawn-out vowels suggesting knowledge acquired outside the seminary. Plum Role: History?s Ultimate Godfather 2011-03-25T20:53:57Z And it’s stiff and formal and a little heavy in the sibilant S department. Modern Love: Losing a ‘Boyfriend,’ the Best Way Possible - Modern Love 2013-05-23T22:40:29Z Her voice is deep and sibilant, and it makes you think of the rills and the rivers of Clare, the county where she grew up. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z Is asparagus related to spinach if they’re both dark green and both hiss with sibilant sounds? 2010-01-12T23:49:00Z And even though I didn’t understand what was being said in those first encounters with the gutturals and sibilants of European speech, I had already begun my journey into the wideness of the world. ArtsBeat: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Journey Into the Wideness of Language’ 2013-08-30T16:30:26Z The word eclecticism has been used so much for the last 30 years that it has become meaningless — a sad, grasping pile of obstruents and sibilants, like a dying fire’s last pops and hisses. Mixing It Up at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville 2010-03-29T21:46:00Z Setting hot revelers ablaze above Mustard's sibilant, minimal beats, YG offered a lesson in the cuss word's versatility. Searing sets save Made in America L.A. 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z When a semi-celebrity graduate of their program is mentioned, the girls hiss her name in sibilant wonder and envy. Review: ‘Dance Nation,’ the Power and the Terror of Girls at 13 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Good Morning Heartache is mangled and mesmerising; Strange Fruit is delivered with sibilants and plosives laden with disgust. Antony's Meltdown – review 2012-08-11T23:06:00Z Most likely to: Use "z" instead of "s" cos sibilants are for cissies. No 879: Ruff Diamondz 2010-10-04T16:18:00Z He was sometimes criticised and even ridiculed for never changing his deep, abrasive, slightly sibilant Scottish burr no matter if he were playing an Irishman, an Arab or a Russian. Sir Sean Connery obituary 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z In the end, the possessive apostrophe “S” following a sibilant is a matter of personal preference and professional judgment. Mary Norris’s Thoughts on Pesky Possessives 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The songs are subjected to unforeseen slowdowns, extended sidebars and more than a little reconstructive surgery, as Mr. Lovano threads his solo commentary, sibilant but suave, through the nub of the action. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z He ran his hand through his hair and muttered something sibilant under his breath that may have been "Ridiculous", or perhaps, "Enough of this". Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z The choir was the glory of both performances, its sibilants crisp and its sound penetrating, particularly in the high voices. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z "Wallace" hits with so much frantic bottom end and mid-range that the sibilant hiss arriving every 16 bars sizzles like a sparkler. Azealia Banks' 'Broke With Expensive Taste' worth the lengthy wait 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The amplification of the offstage priests in the Judgment Scene was distorted, resulting in weird sibilants blaring from above the proscenium. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z What you hear here — the inky throb of the bass, the rattling kick drum, the sibilant tape — is not what that audience heard. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z In another passage, the players briefly whisper sibilants; a series of sliding glissandos in a double bass near the end, almost vocal, feels like a tiny, impeded aria. Review: At 95, a Conductor Is Still Showing New Facets 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Usually that means it’s higher, maybe more melodious and often the sibilant "s" is more pronounced. Is there a 'gay voice'? Director David Thorpe on his Outfest documentary 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z He even worked with a speech pathologist to try to exorcise the sibilant S’s and elongated O’s from his words. This Guy Just Wants to Know If He Sounds Gay 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Bim purvey a breezy version of the latter's torpid, torrid trip-hop – it's less massive, and it doesn't attack, it soothes while Rosier's voice sighs and whispers, like Dido and Sarah Cracknell's sweetly sibilant kid sister. New band of the day ? No 819: Bim 2010-07-06T16:12:00Z Even their language sets them apart from their neighbors: an invisible barrier of sibilants and elided vowels that always sounds like music to me. Brazil holds a special place in its heart (and its laws) for the caipirinha cocktail and its complex national spirit, cachaça 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The insectivorous choruses actually synchronize their sibilant symphonies in a deafening, but gorgeous, hum. Marching to the Beat of the 17-Year Cicada Clock 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The mask muffles your voice; the sibilant hiss of oxygen pouring from face masks all over the ER drowns out your words. Opinion | When the coughing stops and the sense of helplessness begins 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z "It’s a sibilant G ... JILL-uh-brand," an aide in her Hudson office told the newspaper back then. How to pronounce the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates' names, from Buttigieg to Gillibrand 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z They are sharp and sibilant with virtually zero bass reproduction. HP Spectre Folio review: more laptops should be wrapped in leather 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z She pours water on the sauna’s rocks, creating a sibilant hiss, like a co-conspirator. ‘Widows’ review: An unconventional heist thriller so good I wanted to marry it 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Vocals are hollowed out and yet sibilant at the same time, and the soundstage seems to be crushed somewhere at the top of my head. Essential’s $99 USB-C earphones are no salvation from the missing headphone jack 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Unsettling and uncanny, like any good gothic fable, “Phantom Thread”—nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, director and costume design—is embellished with touches of humour amid dark, sibilant drama. In “Phantom Thread”, Paul Thomas Anderson weaves a masterpiece 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Instead, a noise began at the edge of her hearing — a sibilant whispering that could have been static and could have been taunting voices. The ghost in the machine : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z He recreates the uncommon way that Trump, to use Di Domenico’s phrase, “speaks from his teeth”; the wild fluctuations of nasality; the inconsistent New York accent; the sibilant “S”s and exaggerated vowels. Being Donald Trump: the life of an impersonator 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z At last, you felt, someone at Marvel was starting to heed the wise words of Vladimir Nabokov: “The difference between the comic side of things, and their cosmic side, depends upon one sibilant.” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” Loses the Fizz of the Original 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Featuring a beat so minimal that the addition of a sibilant high-hat midway through arrives like an explosion, the track showcases Syd’s increasing confidence as both a rapper and a singer. California Sounds: New music from Syd and BANANA -- and a memorial mixtape from Peanut Butter Wolf 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Extremely comfortable onstage, he delivers lectures in a singsong voice made sibilant by a slight lisp. The Big Fight Over Fossils 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “And what is constancy,” West continued, stretching out the sibilant syllables with his preacherly delivery, “but a willingness to act for integrity, sustain moral engagement and always subordinating political calculation to deep conviction?” Bernie Sanders highlights a critical division within the Democratic party 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Taken from her forthcoming album "Honeymoon," the artist glides her way through the song as a gentle organ hums below and a sibilant high-hat sizzles up top. Deradoorian is pitch perfect, Lana Del Rey is California cool 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z “Why don’t you just learn to accept how you sound?” asks one of Thorpe’s friends, as the filmmaker is deep into his remediation of his drawn-out vowels, over-articulated consonants and sibilant “esses.” ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ asks tough questions about internalized homophobia 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Highs are clear and distinct, without being harsh or overly sibilant, while mids are rich and warm. I sat in a car with nineteen speakers and it was awesome 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Some 357 miles south of Newcastle is the battle of the sibilants as stubborn Stoke set about sensational Swansea. Football clockwatch – live! 2013-01-19T14:14:07Z After a half-millennium in subterranean solitary confinement under the Ring’s influence, he is a sibilant wraith, arguing with himself as Norman Bates did with his late mother. The Hobbit: A Lot of Trudging 2012-12-05T14:35:00Z He knew now whence came that slightly sibilant accent. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z There was a continuous murmur of sibilant talk punctuated by shrill laughter, and the atmosphere, thickly flavored with cheap scent, perspiration, damp, clothes, and cigarette smoke, grew more oppressive with each step of the ascent. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Expectoration is scanty, and auscultation reveals a harsh vesicular murmur or else sibilant r�les. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z It was three degrees and so still that when we pulled up to rest, I heard no wind, no sibilant leaves, just a barely perceptible ringing in my ears. Is Silence Going Extinct? 2012-03-15T22:17:17Z But from an adjoining cabin came the sound of splashing, and from its neighbour the shuffle of heavy feet, a faint suggestion of deft hands busy among crisp muslin and sibilant silk. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z The words begin wrathful and sibilant, and end with a hiss. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z The respiratory murmur was feeble and a large number of sibilant and sonorous r�les were heard, when I was called to see the case. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z It usually occurs early in the attack, and makes itself known by the presence of sonorous and sibilant r�les, which give place later to mucous r�les. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Between vowels in the ancient Umbrian d passed into a sound which was transliterated in the Latin alphabet by rs; this was probably a sibilant r, like the Bohemian ř. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Mr. Jobling had joined Slyne and Captain Dove; the three of them were engaged, with bated breaths, in a sibilant argument, their heads very close together. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Berȝ then was probably pronounced berth, or possibly with a little more of the sibilant than is now found in the latter. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z The firm smooth tidal beach, with the ripples creaming up it in sibilant whispers tempted her to bare feet, and she handed him her shoes and splashed along as joyously as a child. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Rule 1.—Nouns regularly form the plural by adding s, but those ending in a sibilant must addes. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The bungalow was unique in type, if bungalows are ever alike, and the pine trees that sheltered and brushed its roof with a sibilant swish, hummed now a pretty tuneless whisper. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z Then she heard laughter—laughter that was low and sibilant and edged with the insinuating twang that sometimes characterizes the laughter of a madman. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z How easily the sibilant and the th run into one another may be seen by the third person singular of our present Indicative: saith says. doth does. hopeth hopes. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z But the sibilant utterance of the crimson flame, raking the air, and taller by half than the screaming fury that whipped it before her, was turned upon them that had kindled it. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z I have a drunken woman with nine snakes That follow her as freshets a drowned body, Then lift wise sibilant heads in guardian swaying; Her lair could well be traced by emptied streets. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z Grace “whispered,” but the sibilant swish of sounds seemed more resonant than an outspoken address might have. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z Through the bazaars of Asia ran the sibilant whisper: “The East will see the West to bed!” The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The quiet has been broken only by the sibilant song of the boiler, by desultory conversation and bursts of gunfire as spasmodic and inconsequent. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z A moment later he proceeded to empty the saucer with a sibilant sound suggestive of relish. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z But Erskine sounded the thick sibilant of silence as they passed a shabby looking person with a slouching walk and a fair beard. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z But she only lifted a warning finger and made a sibilant sound with her lips, adjuring silence. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Char several times heard her "H'sh!" her companions in a sibilant and penetrating whisper. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z There was a too heavy stress on the sibilant sound, as if the last traces of accent had not yet been removed. Progress Report 2011-07-29T02:00:31.957Z Listen, and out of the silence which follows the noisy dispersion of the family hear the low sibilant voice of the mother calling her children to her or cautioning them to continued hiding. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z In the Morning Star there appeared next day a passage from Disraeli's speech, reported in vinous forms of sibilant expression. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z "Fireman, save my ch-e-i-ild!" came back in sibilant tones from Mary. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z Finally, the workers from the Canteen came in, groped their way up in the dark, and were met on the landing by the hissing, sibilant whisper peculiar to Miss Delmege. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z And all the time there rose the sweet, soft murmur and sibilant swishing, low and melancholy. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Far out upon the Sound the night boat for Boston trudged along like a slow-winging firefly; and presently its wash swept inshore to rouse the beach below to sibilant and murmurous protest. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Then husky, sibilant and explosive sentences were unmistakable. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z “She’s going to send us home,” came to my hearing in a sibilant whisper. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z Whispers of heavenly death, murmur'd I hear; Labial gossip of night—sibilant chorals; Footsteps gently ascending—mystical breezes, wafted soft and low.... A Day with Walt Whitman 2011-06-05T02:00:12.967Z "Ah!" he said, drawing his breath with a sibilant sound, "everybody in London shall hear how I have got over it." Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z He heard a sibilant whisper from near the wall a short distance away. The Black Star A Detective Story 2011-04-14T02:01:01.883Z Since all seemed quiet, he made sibilant venture. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z A quick, startled exclamation, from a long way off, it seemed, reached him, and then a sibilant whisper: “Who’s dat?” Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z The whispering had risen to a sibilant hiss that deadened even the bell's loud clangor when little Jabez Gawne himself felt a call to rise and go out after the others. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z His teeth were long, even and very white, but the right incisor was lacking, and this circumstance made his voice sound slightly sibilant. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z And then the sibilant hiss of his voice reached her dulled ears. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z Her voice possessed a sibilant and musical intonation; there was perhaps the faintest suggestion of an accent. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z "Dead, sir?" she asked in a sibilant whisper. Palos of the Dog Star Pack 2011-03-20T02:00:36.067Z He had conquered the sibilant sound of the “s.” The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Now the background sounds are dominated by the burbling rush of Redwood Creek, the soft sibilant breeze that stirs the redwood branches, the croak of a crow. Shhh, and Not Because the Fauna Are Sleeping 2011-02-22T01:49:04Z Suddenly in the midst of a volley of shells which surprised them in their first sleep, they could distinguish, here and there, little cautious sibilant sounds, as if made stealthily by sirens. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z A dozen paces and a sibilant whistle from behind whirled him about to see Mahadua facing the opening, his little axe poised for a blow of defence. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z After a little we were halted, and lay down, wondering, in the sibilant dark; then we moved on and halted again, and realized suddenly that we were very tired. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z In the stark stillness followed the sibilant sliding of fold over fold as the monster coiled afresh—whispers of a hideous doom. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z When he spoke—which was not often—the soft burr in the pronunciation of the sibilants betrayed the Westcountryman. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z She spoke in a low, swift, sibilant tone close into Esther's face, filling her with fear, magnetizing her with her dark glance, and crushing her hands in her grip of iron almost without knowing it. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z The phonetic laws of the Escuara are simple; the sounds most frequently employed are the sibilants, nasals, and hard gutturals; the soft consonants are often suppressed between two vowels. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z He had a very distinct voice—so distinct was it that every sentence he directed to the actors rebounded from the flats, came back in sibilant echo, and ascended to the gods. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z As he turned over the pages, he became conscious of a sibilant, malignant, revengeful murmur: 'Who stole the bonds? The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z He uttered the two syllables with a hard, sibilant accent of politeness, laying equal stress upon each. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z The deserter’s hand stole away from the pistol grip and his breath ran out in a long, sibilant gasp of relief and reaction. The Law of Hemlock Mountain I can't deny, however, that when the speech was delivered the general effect was heightened by the sibilant tone in which the words were spoken. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile The sibilant chirp of a grasshopper brought his fellow Thug to his side. The Great Mogul He would have hissed the word, but it has no sibilant. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z The sharp prolonged sibilant that broke in upon their applause and caused instant silence, was uttered by Sergeant True. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies He hissed out the word with sibilant wrath, and threw off his light coat. The Man from Jericho About me was a startling silence peopled with sibilant whispers. Woman "Yes," affirmed Drake with a triumphant inhalation of sibilant breath. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Oh, the golden chink and the sibilant sign Which sang of honey and love and wine, Of pleasure and power when the sun's a-shine And plenty and peace in the day's decline! Impertinent Poems The voice came sharply, almost sibilantly, with the aspirates of the race. The Tempering She caught her breath at this, a quick, sibilant intaking, and because her hands had at that moment begun to tremble, she clasped them in her lap. The Man from Jericho She was careful to talk German, not that there was much chance of being actually overheard, but to prevent the sibilant accents of English speech reaching suspicious ears. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Where had he heard that faint lisp, that slurring of the sibilants? The Land of Strong Men A plaintive, sibilant noise hissed through her parted lips. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play The girl heard a hundred obscure, singular, sibilant sounds, as of serpents conferring. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Their call for food was a sibilant chirr, and they gave it much oftener than any of the grown-up woodpecker notes. A-Birding on a Bronco Suddenly, however, there came a faint sound to his straining ears, and again he whispered in that sibilant whisper: "Lord St. Ulmer, fire!" The Riddle of the Night The clattering, grinding, sibilant din added to her misery. Shadows of Flames A Novel At intervals she changed the sibilant moan into a hollow groaning sound. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Once or twice there was a sibilant inrush of breath from some auditor too dumfounded for control. Thirty "No; Mrs.," he replied, dwelling upon the sibilants in a way to delight an elocution-tutor. Helena Brett's Career And, as Tristrem watched and listened, the sibilants of the sea gurgled in sympathy with his thoughts, accompanying and accentuating them with murmurs of its own. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel “Yes; I am glad for you to know her too,” said Uncle Ben, his Yankee tones sounding in flat contrast with his wife’s sibilant ones. A Daughter of the Union In taking his sibilant surname as a pseudonym for Whistler, we have the endorsement of the artist himself, though he does not expressly declare himself to be the archetype of this particular character. Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel “Are you Lion?” asked a sibilant voice from the top of a bush. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories And then suddenly a sound came out of the darkness—a low, sibilant sound, the quick, thin breathing of a woman. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen The window was at the back of the house; he could not see the ocean, but he heard its resilient sibilants, and from the garden came the hum of insects. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Winged things that were not bats swooped and fluttered in the tenebrous air, whispering sibilantly—whispering in human voices. The Secret of Kralitz His voice was sibilant; it seemed to drag itself through wet grass. Brink of Madness For a time Martin tried to fuse their sibilants into the general buzz, but failing in this, began to listen to their conversation. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients And with a soft, sibilant flip-flop of her heelless slippers, which showed her own pink heels and delicate ankles, she disappeared. Command When the Wood-Warbler secures a territory it repeats its sibilant trill with unwearying zeal, yet no sooner does a mate appear than its emotion is manifested in other directions. Territory in Bird Life And when, abruptly, she began to talk to him, in an even flow of incomprehensible vowels and sibilants, he was startled. The Bright Shawl The next moment something suddenly sang aloud in the wilderness—a wild, strange, sibilant strain. The Story of Old Fort Loudon A harsh, prolonged, sibilant, far-reaching hiss came from the door of the cabin, but came too late to warn Brad Tingle of the trap into which he was walking. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures He didn't even notice when the massive door was swung shut, closing against its airtight cushion with a sibilant hiss. The Scarlet Lake Mystery Sobieska, in assenting, drew in his breath with a sibilant sound through pursed lips. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch “Oh, yes, I am,” he said, his voice low, sibilant, menacing. Cynthia's Chauffeur "Miss Lucy," she said, and Jane turned at the penetrating sibilants of her name. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur The leaves took up their testimony in elusive, sibilant mutterings. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories “What is it?” came in a sibilant whisper over Jack’s shoulder; for he was only a few feet ahead of the other pair of crawlers. Jack Winters' Campmates And now a wave of clearer articulation overcomes a sibilant that has been the worst enemy of speech, and leaves the tongue free. When Ghost Meets Ghost He intoned a command in harsh gutturals that ended in a sibilant shriek. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Lucille had spoken in a rapid, sibilant whisper, leaning forward so as to bring her eyes directly before Mrs. Thayer's face, and the effect was electrical. The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller The water stirred with a sibilant lapping sound as the buck's tongue licked at the margin. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories “It is the doings of miss,” she whispered, in her native sibilant Mexican, when Nola found an excuse to leave Frances alone at her meal. The Rustler of Wind River Sweet-faced, slim, with a soft, sibilant voice, and dainty to her finger-tips, she did not look more than nineteen, though her age was twenty-four. The Sign of Silence Ivana drew a sibilant breath and said that she wished something would happen. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 A sharp, sibilant whispering came from one of these figures, to be answered in an eager chorus from our bearers. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 A human utterance was in its midst,—a human voice calling his name through the gusty night and the sibilant rush of the rain from the eaves. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories On auscultation, in the early stages, rhonchus r�les are detected if the larger tubes are affected, and sibilant r�les if the smaller ones are affected. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle He addressed his sibilant words to Greca, though his stony eyes were kept intently on the Earthmen. The Red Hell of Jupiter He smiled sickeningly, and a queer, sibilant whispering came from the bluish lips. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Then a gluey mass cut across my mouth, and, as though carried on huge soft springs, I was hurried away, with the sibilant, whispering sounds louder and closer than ever. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 The trees far below waved in the wind, and a faint dryadic sibilant singing sounded a measure or so, and grew fainter in the lulling of the breeze, and sunk to silence. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories From the ranks of Jarmuth rose a terrible, ominous cry and at the same time there broke out the sibilant hiss of a thousand retortii. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Mr. Drew spoke in a soft, slightly sibilant voice, with little smiling pauses between sentences that all seemed vaguely shuffled together. Tante “But there's one consolation for you,” he said at length, in a sibilant whisper. The Camera Fiend I have never heard any sound even remotely like the babel of angry, sibilant whispering that beat against the walls and roof of that cavern. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 The night was suddenly sibilant with eery, whistling voices. Two Thousand Miles Below It was as sibilant as the hissing of a snake. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 Wind came up from the valley in the sibilant sigh of a sea. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia He stopped, and answered with a sibilant incoherence, struggling as he was with his amusement. Audrey Craven The younger man drew a quick, sibilant breath, and his face, too, turned pale beneath the tan. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue But, at Bob's sibilant command for silence, she trustingly obeyed, and went up before him to guide the way along the darkened stairway. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure It was a strange tongue he spoke, with many gutturals and sibilants. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 Above their broad leaves, lying like shields on the surface of the water, swarmed indigo-colored insects with wide, translucent, sibilant wings, so delicate and fragile that they are justly called water-sprites. Sielanka: An Idyll "I should prefer," she replied, speaking the universal language with a sibilant accent that was very fascinating, "to speak with you privately." Priestess of the Flame Then suddenly the sibilant sounds dropped to silence as the result was announced. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West The tiger woman uttered one fierce sibilant like the hiss of a serpent, a terrifying sound that silenced the hunchback and brought him stiffly to attention, mouth open and eyes bulging with horror. The Copper-Clad World The knife struck the water with a sibilant splash. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Bobby spun around at the word, having heard the sibilant whisper. The Girls of Central High in Camp Or, the Old Professor's Secret "We have awaited your coming," she said in her sibilant voice. Priestess of the Flame And I remember schooling my Poppsy to say “Daddy’s all sweet” and how her little tongue, stumbling over the sibilant, converted it into the non-complimentary “Daddy’s all feet,” which my Dinky-Dunk so scowlingly resented. The Prairie Child The Zara's sibilant exclamation startled him into looking at her once more. The Copper-Clad World As he stepped into the light a low, sibilant whisper reached him. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China She now leaned comfortably against the wall beside the sink, her eyes closed and her mind oblivious to her surroundings, and dimly hearing through her dreams that sibilant call: "A-A-A-Alfy!" The Brass Bound Box It would rather, like fathers and horses, add the lene sibilant. A Handbook of the English Language The room was noisy, fifty little heads were bent over fifty different schemes for mischief, and fifty sibilant whispers delivered forbidden messages. The End of the Rainbow What is it now, Thy phantom paradise of gorgeous pearl, With sibilant streams and palmy tier on tier Of wind-bewhitened foliage? Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy Guttural German notes mixed whimsically with sibilant Spanish and flowing Portuguese. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama The three, accepting this as a sign of yielding, chorused an eager, sibilant Yes. Otherwise Phyllis It had been only a faint murmur; he might have been mistaken … yes, there it was again, a sort of choked, sibilant whisper coming from the adjoining room. Juggernaut Her words were spoken in that sibilant whisper that is louder than ordinary speech, and not one of them was lost. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life There must have been thousands of serpents in the mass which covered a space twenty by thirty feet, from which came the sibilant hiss of puff adders, and a strong, nauseating odor. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades Through the solemn, appointed periods of the minister cut the sibilant, maternal promise of a famous “whopping.” Mountain Blood A Novel As if the words were a signal, the crowd about them surged up suddenly, with the harsh scrape of many chair-legs and an odd, sibilant sound, caused by a multitude of quick-drawn breaths. Shoe-Bar Stratton The speech sets one wondering at the art of the unknown Elizabethan actor who first spoke hurriedly this speech of strange words full of sibilants. William Shakespeare I hear the dreaded rattle and the sibilant hiss; rushing toward the fire, I seize the tripod and dash it to the ground, scattering the glowing embers in every direction. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography To-day, as I was passing through a corridor of the main building, I twice heard the word "coo-coo" repeated in a sibilant undertone. Fibble, D.D. The pretty dresses, the laughter, the sibilant whispers, and the claw-hammer coat are the same in Madrid and Bucharest as in London or Paris, or any other capital. The Stretton Street Affair It seemed as if that low, stealthy, sibilant whispering was going on forever. Shoe-Bar Stratton He could also just discern the great locomotive waiting on the side-track, and the sibilant hiss of steam that mingled with the moaning of the wind whirling a white haze out of the obscurity. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter He heard himself whining sibilantly, as he had heard boys whine when fighting, with eagerness and lust for blows. 'Firebrand' Trevison The orator is not hampered by the studied words of a written part: he has the right of free speech, and he may retort upon his sibilant surrounders. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Lastly the stops, or consonants, impede the current of air, whether sonorous or sibilant, for a perceptible time; and probably produce some change of tone in the act of opening and closing their apertures. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes As the soft sibilant tones of the Fire-daemon flutter away, slowly the spheres recede and vanish in the clasp of Night. The Masque of the Elements A sibilant sound from the detective's lips took me to his side. The Motor Pirate Iowa aspirate th, represents Dak s, and other sibilants. The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages “I’ll get you into the willows if I can,” he called in a sibilant whisper. The Fighting Edge If the lower lip be appressed to the edges of the upper teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the sibilant letter F is formed.V. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes He let out a short, sibilant breath, looking at me with rapidly dilating eyes: they ran me all over, as if he wondered whether I were romancing. Ravensdene Court It came again, a sibilant sound, as if out of a throat through clenched teeth. The Huntress Their voices are weak, but very sweet, and almost as fine as the sibilant buzz of certain kinds of insects. Birds of the Rockies The river wound past them with a faint, sibilant sound like a child chuckling in its sleep; an owl hooted somewhere in the far-off sanctuary of the trees. The Long Trick If the point of the tongue be appressed to the forepart of the palate, as in forming the letter T, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the sibilant letter S is produced.Z. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes The slow arpeggios of it, liquid, sibilant, Thrill and thrill in the dark. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Was it friend or enemy who evidently tried to attract her attention by this sibilant sound? Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Immediately the shouting ceased, and a low ominous groan went up, intermingled with sibilant hissings. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg With this he went out on to the terrace, through the French windows, and commenced to make a peculiar sibilant noise between his teeth, half whistle half hiss. A Queen's Error She would have said more but, at that moment, from up the aisle sounded a sibilant "S-s-s-s!" The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch "I have never never given my picture to any man," she said firmly, and the absence of sibilants made it doubly impressive. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World As she said nothing the old man repeated his sibilant warning: “Hush!” Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Then, beginning with the eldest, the twelve jabbered at us in turn, apparently in different tongues, some sibilant, some guttural, and others with the musical cadence of frequent vowel sounds. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner From a far corner of the room came the first sibilant sound, followed at once by a chorus of hisses that struck straight to the boy's heart, and echoed through his mind for years. The Flag It was a dim, cool, hushed sort of place, where guests spoke in sibilant whispers when they crossed the parlour lobby. Stubble The voice is shrill and sibilant, yet with a sonority so powerful that it vibrates on the eardrums and penetrates to the farthest corners of the hall. Modern Saints and Seers She would have bade him good-bye, but he hissed after her another sibilant “hush!” and disappeared as mysteriously as he had come. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands But then he was gliding with a sibilant whistle through a natural atmosphere, again. The Planet Strappers They are low and insinuating, a kind of sibilant utterance: The first—"Do you wish for women?" The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul From the next room there came a succession of husky sibilant sounds, as though some one were whispering hurriedly and continuously. Robert Elsmere The lights of the town twinkled out below them, and the prairie bluffs behind them were dark and sibilant. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 The tones were first high, then low, never guttural, and possessed a certain sibilant quality. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands It differs from Sanskrit principally in its sibilants, nasals, and aspirates. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion This is Her brother, with watchful eyes, Piercing, shameless, and indiscreet, With ears wide open for soft replies And sounds that are sibilant and sweet! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) No insect had hit me forcibly before— Moya and his helper had noticed nothing after— A few meager drops of rain, sibilantly soaking into the eager soil of Epsilon-Terra. Attrition The visitor from the neighboring city chose mostly to listen attentively, but Igrillik, the priest, occasionally leaned over to whisper sibilantly into Eemakh's recessed ear. A Transmutation of Muddles A sudden sibilant sound brought Lena to attention. Jewel Weed The bed creaked, and a long sigh gave place to the halting speech in which the sibilants were thickened into lisping sounds. Moor Fires A foreign word ending in a sibilant is sometimes mistaken for a plural. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The rain drummed noisily on the roof and the soft swish of its descent into the grass rose to a clear, sibilant note. The Squirrel-Cage Unconsciously his lips pressed close against the softness of her arm, and at their touch the arm trembled, and from far away came the quick, sibilant gasp of an indrawn breath. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest The chain rustled sibilantly among the dead leaves, and was ever and anon drawn out to its extremest length. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895 To this there succeeded a silence, broken only by the sibilant drawing in of the younger woman's breath. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story With this we find an irregular movement of the flanks, and on auscultation of the lungs we find sibilant or at times a few mucous râles. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse The stillness was unbroken save for the warm sibilant droning of the insect life in the air. Sally of Missouri It was softer, more sibilant, and impressed me as that of a man who was accustomed to speak Italian. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective The anxious listeners heard at times the sound of restless pacing up and down,—the thin, sibilant noise of stockinged feet sliding on padded straw. The Dragon Painter At length, with the same sibilant in-taking of the breath I had observed before, Emily turned and swept through the door, her face unusually yellow, the little spots of rouge on her cheeks burning suddenly. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story So he started to open his mouth to say something, when Ned lifted a hand and gave a low sibilant hiss. Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay The Disappearing Fleet "Ah, yes, a niece but—ah, well—the presence of ladies would deter my pressing my point," said Judge Tuttle, who then whispered sibilantly to a pink-cheeked old man across the table. Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman Koltsoff, who from the beginning had chafed at the position in which she had placed him, pitting him against a servant, walked to one side with a low sibilant exclamation. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport Warm earth-scents drenched the air; soft sibilant whisperings stirred overhead, and hidden birds chattered in the leafage. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The smooth cañon bed was only a few yards below when, at the last sharp twist in the descent, the still air vibrated with a sibilant rattle. Bloom of Cactus Angry murmurs arose from behind masks and several sibilant hisses cut the storm-laden air. Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore The sibilant sounds of whispers struck sharply and unpleasantly upon the ear. The Lady of the Ice A Novel It was music which awaited the accompaniment of whispers, thousands of awed, ritualistic sibilants which would carry no knowable meaning and only one avowed purpose. Breaking Point The respiratory murmur was harsh and extensive at the upper part of both lungs, while the sibilant ronchus was heard occasionally in the lower lobes. An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners "Monakatocka never forgives an enemy," came in a sibilant whisper too low to be heard by the watchful overseer. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia He drew a quick, sibilant breath, and turned, planting his back against the door and clenching his fists. The Sins of Séverac Bablon The alliteration is without complexity,--a dreary procession of sibilants. Milton There was the distant murmur of the great fall, the sharp, sibilant chirrup of crickets. !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War They were frozen with horror, as slowly, slowly, slowly the great animal crept toward them with his tail sibilantly lashing above his back. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country They both spoke in the soft, sibilant patois of Shantung. The Daffodil Mystery He began by beckoning to his host; and, having relieved that gentleman's apprehensions by sibilant noises, waggled a nervous finger at Dolly. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton "In other words"—Simec's voice now had a sibilant hiss—"if you could end war through your death you'd be willing to die—now, or at any specified time?" The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story When they spoke Universal, their voices were sibilant, but not nearly so inhuman. The Colors of Space The machine would talk, but, like many young children, it had difficulty with certain sounds—in the present case with aspirants and sibilants. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune "Just as you say, Elmer, and I reckon you're quite right, too," always in a low, sibilant tone that would not carry further than a dozen yards at the most. Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails I have in mind one woman, who ought to have known better, whose sibilant utterances—just five pews distant—came to be a regular part of the five minutes' pause immediately before the service began. Etiquette Donaldson heard nothing but the even voice and the sibilant dialect. The Seventh Noon Raynor had told him that only a few of the Lhari had that characteristic sibilant "r" and "s" and warned him against trying to imitate it. The Colors of Space Ray, always a silent, inarticulate man, was so wordless that Cora took him to task for it in a sibilant aside. Gigolo If you don’t creep along as still as mice she’ll hear you,” warned a sibilant whisper. Grace Harlowe's Problem Then there would come a pause; and it would begin again with sibilant whispers, and end in a chorus of dry laughter that somehow suggested the crackling of burning logs. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Presently the sibilant rush of waters forewarns rapids. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 In other dialects, however, it had been palatalized to a sibilant before i-sounds some time before the Christian era; e.g. in the Umbrian fa�ia = Latin facial. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The rhythm of the line and the prevalence of sibilants suit the sense. Milton's Comus Even before his fore feet touched the trail again, she heard the sibilant bur-r-ing of the cold, uncoiling thing as it slid down the blind shadows of the hillside. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Ducks and geese flew over the Island so low that the sibilant sound of their wings could be heard from the porch. Where the Sun Swings North I went to the door and spoke to the furred nonhuman in the sibilant jargon of the Kharsa and he handed me what looked like a bundle of rags. The Door Through Space Sime, his breath whistling sibilantly between his clenched teeth, hauled himself through the low passage, with incredible speed. Brood of the Witch-Queen The two leaders came together to the door of the third house, and their heads were together; and a few sibilant consonants escaped them. By What Authority? The mystic pines swaying over the narrow road made talk sibilantly to the wind. The Third Violet Luckily, in response to De Sylva's sibilant order, most of the Andromeda's crew were hidden by the scrub from which they were about to emerge. The Stowaway Girl Then the sibilant voice of the wind alone broke the stillness. North of Fifty-Three At this moment the train suddenly slackened, and Mrs. Shiffney and Madame Sennier, leaning down and up, exchanged sibilant and almost simultaneous hushes. The Way of Ambition She had also a hiss with the sibilants peculiar to herself. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls I see," said Bryce, with a sudden intake of breath that lent a sibilant quality to his speech, "I see that we are on the same track. The Lost Valley But the voice!—who, having once heard it, could ever mistake that singular voice, alternately guttural and sibilant. The Devil Doctor The evening flight of the wild duck from Crooked Lake to a chain of swamps passed intermittently over the clearing with a sibilant whistle of wings. North of Fifty-Three He had pronounced the French phrase exactly as it is written, with an effort at the "J" following the sibilant. Blister Jones At a concert led by the famous von Bülow half a dozen women come in after the music has begun, rustling, sibilant, and excited. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Apparently he had shaken the fumes up and the intelligence down, for her only answer was a burst of sibilant incoherence. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Oh, god of Cathay!" he cried sibilantly, "in what have I sinned that this catastrophe has been visited upon my head! The Devil Doctor They held their breath, and let it out in sibilant whispers like the voice of a little wind moving among leaves; and he did not speak until they were almost aburst with expectation. Caves of Terror Words hissed from his lips in a stream of sibilants too quick for Dave to catch. The Sky Is Falling There was the sibilant sound of a breath being drawn in and, at the same moment, Mr. Darton's voice again. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story One of the lacquer doors slid noiselessly open and a man entered, Stuart inhaled sibilantly and clenched his fists. The Golden Scorpion The tenth line is an excruciating alliteration in sibilants. Studies in Early Victorian Literature By the pool that I see in my dreams, dear love, I have sat with you time and again; And listened beneath the dank leaves, dear love, To the sibilant sound of the rain. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar The narrow fissure between its walls was aflow with the evening current of promenaders, crowding its scant breadth, and sending up a medley of laughter and musical sibilants. The Lighted Match Let me hear the sibilant sounds of the thrashers as they settle to sleep in the thicket. Some Summer Days in Iowa The other voice—which had first spoken—was curiously sibilant but very distinct. The Golden Scorpion During the hottest part of the day they perch in trees and hold a concert, if such a term may be applied to a torrent of sibilant twitter. A Bird Calendar for Northern India At the same instant was a sibilant, human—distinctly human—"Hss-h," and the sound had ceased. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade With the slant light came the sibilant hush, the quiet tangible. The Freebooters of the Wilderness With a long intake and a discharge of the breath he imitated the sibilant flight of the projectiles and followed it up with a duck of his head over the counterpane. Leaves from a Field Note-Book His filmed eyes turning to right and left, he dragged himself to a wooden chair that stood beside the operating-table and sank down upon it, breathing sibilantly, exhaustedly. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor "Hush, hush!" came in energetic sibilants from the princess, who rapped with her Japanese walking-stick for silence. Visionaries Inspiration becomes noisy, sometimes stridulous or metallic or sibilant, and there is marked indrawing of the epigastrium and lower intercostal spaces. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. From the purpling Valley came the sibilant hush of the River. The Freebooters of the Wilderness Then the guns in the copse spoke, and the air was sibilant with their speech. Leaves from a Field Note-Book Sir Baldwin Frazer." began Fu-Manchu in that indescribable voice, alternating between the sibilant and the guttural, "you were promised a certain fee for your services by my servant who summoned you. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor There were soft murmurs of, "Now, this is strictly off the record ..." followed by sibilant whispers. Murder in the Gunroom One could almost hear the whisper in the deep recess of the retaining wall,—sibilant, gasping. Foes in Ambush They heard the sibilant hush of the River flood-tide; and the warm June dark enveloped them as in a caress. The Freebooters of the Wilderness In the midst of our straining I heard a sibilant sound. Romance Not since the day of the first Yuan Emperor," said Fu-Manchu sibilantly, "has Our Lady of the Si-Fan—to look upon upon whom, unveiled, is death—crossed the sacred borders. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor Exaggerated opening of the mouth, audible smacking of the lips, holding tenaciously to final consonants, prolonged hissing of sibilants, are all to be condemned. Talks on Talking It was so intensely cold that the snow did not yield to his tread, but gave out quick sibilant sounds. Pembroke A Novel The word was not spoken loudly, but sibilantly, with something resembling a hiss. The Adventures of Kathlyn Attempting to speak, he could produce only an asthmatic, sibilant wheeze. Atlantis Above the sibilant roaring of the rain I could hear some one releasing heavy bolts and bars. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor "Mr. Burton—please!" he screamed, and in his excitement his voice was more than ordinarily sibilant. Destiny "Not so roughly, William!" said the prompter in a sibilant whisper. More William The Russian officer, and even the Russian sergeant, were agreeably stroked by the contact with all this quiet and seclusion and this old-world air, and they murmured in sibilant Russian. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation He bent lower and a sibilant sound reached the ears of Endicott and the girl. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country Whispering arouses the patient's curiosity and suspicions, and, if he be asleep, the sibilant sound will pierce his slumbers and awaken him. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Little by little a new note crept in—a sibilant, metallic note as of a tense sheet of silk drawn rapidly over a thin steel edge. The River and I "She is my wife," he said, in his slow, sibilant way. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories Again and again the flashes leaped out of the surrounding shadows and the air was sibilant with whining missiles. Empire Builders Presently the bolder began to whisper and conjecture among themselves, hushing the sibilant surmises of the humbler with a cautioning frown. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt While he wondered and pushed his boat slowly in on the gravel, a low pr-r-r and a sibilant ripple of water caused him to look behind. Poor Man's Rock "What has all this to do—" began the chairman; but he stopped, checked by a wave of sibilant remonstrance from the audience. The Clarion The upper air was filled with a blending of high notes—a whizzing, droning, and sibilant buzzing, and pipings that died down in faint wails. Combed Out The sibilant burring of a rattler in the brush set his neck and back tingling. Sundown Slim Overhead were the cooling depths of sky, as yet starless, but the river was breathing on the winds and the sibilant murmur of its waters began to talk above the sounds of the city. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt It was a woman's voice, soft, sibilant, hushed, and the frozen grip of fear was broken. The Palace of Darkened Windows A sound comes from a window above; a clear, sibilant sound; a human voice uttering one word, but investing it with a volume of reproach beyond description. Miss Caprice Mrs. Newbolt, in a blue-flannel dressing gown, and in and out of the spare room with sibilant whispers of anxiety, had, for once, more thoughts than words; her words were only, "I've always expected it!" The Vehement Flame She hissed the name in a sharp, sibilant whisper, and the man recoiled as if an adder had stung him. The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week Thin columns of blue smoke drifted up here and there between the close-set tents, and the sibilant wearing of stone-mills, as they ground the wheat, was heard in many households. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt "Oh, he is a devil!" her companion was reaffirming with an angry little half-whisper sibilant with fury. The Palace of Darkened Windows His weapon rose mechanically and quite deliberately he took aim—making assurance doubly sure throughout what seemed an age made sibilant by the singing past his head of the infuriated gangster's bullets. The Day of Days An Extravaganza On seeing a billet seized and held aloft with that sibilant sound which stirs his ingenuous spirit to prodigies of pursuit, his eyes were flame, his heart was apoplexy. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned She spoke with a sibilant intaking of breath, caused by the twist to her mouth. The Hawk of Egypt A great sigh, long drawn and sibilant, which for the last five minutes had been swelling 57 little thoraxes, burst out and filled the space of the lecture hall at the Museum of Fine Arts. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers The first sure effect of my announcement came in a quick exclamation from Wright, a sibilant intake of breath, that did not seem to denote surprise so much as certainty. The Rustlers of Pecos County Diacritical marks intended to distinguish between the various sibilants, dentals, nasals, and so forth, of the Arabic and Sanskrit alphabets, have been purposely omitted. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official "Si; I am here," the voice of Vidal Nu�ez was answering, quick, eager, sibilant with its unmistakable nervous excitement. The Bells of San Juan She made a few choice remarks upon the undoubted inclusion of a pig in the commissionaire's parentage, in a curiously sibilant voice, then limped away with a distressing swing of her body from the hips. The Hawk of Egypt The sibilant was voiced or voiceless as in English words, the one in rosaceus, the other in saliva. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin She spoke the last words close to his ear, in a fierce, sibilant whisper. The Baronet's Bride Had he or had he not, heard a strange, low, sibilant, writhing sound just as he came to consciousness? The Girl from Montana A slight aspirate preceding and modifying the sibilant, which is, however, the stronger of the two consonants; e.g. hsing = hissing without the first i, j. Myths and Legends of China He secured the banian; and, swathing himself in its cool, sibilant folds, he fell, his face hid in an angle of his arm, into an immediate profound slumber. The Three Black Pennys A Novel "Don't be frightened," he continued, in his sibilant whisper; "you will take care of me, won't you?" Idle Hour Stories "My betters!" the girl hissed, in a fierce, sibilant whisper. The Baronet's Bride Tack and Patty Smart are rendered happy; but what really becomes of Beausex and his aunt the sibilants forbad our knowing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 To these may be added, Mr. Yates in his own private character, and a few sibilants in the pit, who completed the poultry-nature of the piece by playing the part of geese. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 The leaves streamed sibilantly by the eaves and accumulated in dry, russet heaps in angles and hollows; they burned in crackling fires, filling the air with a drifting haze rich with suggestion and memories. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Indeed, the term "hiss" is a misnomer for the quick sibilant expulsion of the breath by an alarmed or angered serpent. The Wings of the Morning Davy swore a mighty but sibilant oath and urged his thick, ugly figure ahead of the others. The Daughter of Anderson Crow The soft, sibilant sounds seemed like kisses on the lips of the victims of their treacherous caresses. The Redemption of David Corson If we could happen upon the mud-turtle mad with love, I am sure we should find that he had a voice—a "soft, sibilant croak," who knows? Roof and Meadow He loved the grinding, clashing, and rending sibilants and explosives as Tennyson the tender-hefted liquids. Robert Browning This is regularly made by the suffix ii. mostly united with one of those numerous sibilants, for which the English language has hardly letters or signs, sh, tsh, sht, shtsh, etc. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations The soft sibilant sound of whispering which came to his ears just as he was about to approach the door roused Jack from his reflections. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border Her dress was silk, and rustled when she moved, with soft and sibilant sounds. The Redemption of David Corson It seemed an appreciable time before they came down amidst the fern, and then Miss Deringham drew in her breath with a little sibilant sigh. Alton of Somasco The words had a singular, a sibilant sound; he bowed deferentially and strode off, not toward his own chamber, however, but toward the great stairway leading down to the first story. Half A Chance The greatest variety among the Slavic letters exists in the sibilants. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations Now," he whispered, sibilant through the wind, controlling himself, though he was shaking from head to foot, "now to return as we have come. At a Winter's Fire By their low sibilant voices, the daring sidelong sortie of their bright eyes, their gestures, furtive and irrepressible, you gathered that there was unanimity on one point. The Tree of Heaven This note of welcome had hardly died away and the echo of the encompassing mountains grown silent, when an agitated murmur of excitement went sibilantly through the throng. The Frontiersmen He gave a low, sibilant warning of his presence, and in a moment the corner of the tent moved aside, and he saw Stella's bright eyes looking into his. Ted Strong's Motor Car Not only the guttural sounds, g, ch, and k, but also d and t, are changed in many cases into analogous sibilants, according to fixed and very simple rules. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations The old man edged closer to me, and spoke in a sibilant voice. At a Winter's Fire Mother Fetu had ceased whining on his entrance, but kept up a sibilant wheeze, like that of a child in pain. A Love Episode "What a ghastly place!" whispered Chris, and something seemed to catch the whisper and repeat it sibilantly a great many times as if learning it off by heart. The Rocks of Valpre The uproar was deafening; the air was sibilant with streams and sheets of missiles. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 "I think I have paid my debt to the McKayes," she declared, and in her calm voice there was a sibilant little note of passion. Kindred of the Dust "Faith, I believe you've killed her!" she uttered in a sibilant whisper across the bed. Greatheart For my own part, no language seemed easier to acquire than this; every harsh and sibilant consonant being banished from it, and almost every word ending in a vowel. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 "Who is it?" questioned Aunt Lydia in a sibilant whisper. Out of the Ashes He had heard the sibilant sounds of the whispering, and, knowing that Minnie could not speak Italian, it had struck him as being a very singular thing that she should be whispering. The American Baron Associated words: spirant, fricative, surd, sibilant. conspicuous, a. salient, noticeable, prominent, manifest. Putnam's Word Book All the time it descends it utters a strange note, something like that of a frog or cricket, a protracted sibilant sound. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 I only lisp a little when any occasion arises to utter sibilant sounds; on such occasions this little girl, the only child of her mother, and she a widow, mimics my infirmity. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series The épicière utters the series of short sharp sibilants of which all French numerals appear to be composed. The First Hundred Thousand Full of vowel-sounds, entirely without sibilants, but rich in guttural and chest notes, it may be made at will to sound liquid or virile, soft or ringing. The Long White Cloud The sibilant sound spread round the house; it swelled into a sinister storm of hisses and boos. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe Hence, we have normal, oppressive, spasmodic, superior, sibilant, rattling, intermittent, crackling, and hiccoughing respiration. Delsarte System of Oratory A prolonged, intense, sibilant buzzing in the apparatus, and—nothing!… Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Outside, hushing him to rest, there sounded the sibilant rain, and from the sea below ripples broke gently and rhythmically on the pebbly beach. The Blotting Book In that return of comparative silence there rose above the sibilant hiss of the blow-off valve a sudden commotion of voices. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest We were about thirty miles out of Boulogne when there was a sudden explosion underneath the car, followed by a sibilant sound that I knew only too well. A Minstrel in France From the successive predominance of each of these three phenomena, or from their equal balance, result eighty-one respiratory acts, which may be reduced to three terms: The breathing is normal, spasmodic, or sibilant. Delsarte System of Oratory The walls were gaping with cracks that carried the sounds, and now he heard a sibilant whisper with a perfect clearness. Trailin'! Sometimes this gurgle became sibilant, almost a whistle. White Fang The answer came in a sibilant whisper of dread. Within the Law As to its sounds—I have to observe that at the will of a master it can be sublimely sonorous, terribly sharp, diabolically guttural and sibilant, and sweet and harmonious to a remarkable degree. Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery And this time I was not mistaken—there was a sound, rustling, sibilant. Under the Andes I was up at once, and with the sound of my footstep on the floor the low knocking ceased, to be followed immediately by sibilant whispering through the keyhole. The Circular Staircase He turned his head as though to drop them, and, that far away, I heard the sibilant whir of rattles. Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories I could hear only the sibilant whisper of the trees and the creak of our slow wheels in the rough forest road. The Story of a Pioneer "His state!" yes, undeniably, two sibilants collided here. The Certain Hour He has been detained in China," he replied, in smooth, sibilant tones—"by affairs of great urgency. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu There was a low, sibilant rise and fall—the breathing of the creature. The Lost World A cosy, crackling sound began to be audible in the room; sibilant jets of flame, scarlet, yellow, violet, and green, spurted up from the driftwood. The Bronze Bell "He knows me too well, knows that if ever I lay hands on him again—" His voice was rising to an hysterical pitch when the other checked him with a sibilant hiss. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf That clash of sibilants is both harsh and ungrammatical. The Certain Hour I could see only its shadow, but a sharp, sibilant breath from Smith told me that he, from his post, could see the cause of the shadow. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu But now, even while Peterby stood hesitating, from the open casement of the inn, near at hand, came the sound of a laugh: a soft, gentle, sibilant laugh which Barnabas immediately recognized. The Amateur Gentleman The sibilant lisping of the wavelets against the bund sang him softly toward oblivion … and a convention of water-fowl went into stormy executive session out in the middle of the lake. The Bronze Bell There seemed to come suddenly over the sibilant Miss Sidonia Sabrina a quieting down, a lessening of twinkle and shimmer and swish. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It In moments of high pressure he stuttered slightly, grinding and whirring over a sibilant like a stalled tire. Star-Dust His English was perfect, though at times his words were oddly chosen; his delivery alternately was guttural and sibilant. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu Voiceless and silent they brought me down stone stairs and along echoing passages into a dim chamber where other cloaked forms moved on soundless feet and spake in hushed and sibilant whispers. Martin Conisby's Vengeance The fetid air hung motionless but sibilant with stealthy footsteps and whisperings…. The Bronze Bell Buck lay down, in the bottom of the boat, covered with a piece of sacking, and Sam took up the oars, when a long, sibilant whistle like a night bird floated keenly through the air. Lo, Michael! But in the end she did attend, seating herself, for the first time in her life, in the F-minor, the perfumed twilight of the Metropolitan Opera House, just as the velvet curtains swished sibilantly apart. Star-Dust It was intensely still, a whisper of water round the moving prow, the sibilant dip of the paddle the only sounds. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California With increasing frequency gusts of air set the trees a-shiver until their sibilant whispers of warning filled the valley. The Fortune Hunter The only sound was our sibilant breathing and the very faint shuffle of feet. The Mutineers Then the singing started: dim And sibilant as rime-stiff reeds That whistle as the wind leads. Georgian Poetry 1920-22 I began on the next verse viciously, and came a cropper over the clash of two sibilants, as the distant clamour increased. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking With an earnest face upturned to the impassive countenance of her mother, she began to whisper, sibilant, coaxing, pleading. The Trespasser The night was dark and murmurous with a sibilant wind that sent the leaves drifting, softly clashing one with another. The Fortune Hunter The respiration is accompanied by a mucous 'râle' which often becomes sibilant. The Dog All standing there gazed upon it, holding their breath as if fearing to disturb something infinitely solemn; and in such silence the laboured, sibilant breathing of the patient sounded terribly distinct. Sanine The sibilant French syllables hiss through her teeth as she utters them, and seem better fitted to her mood and to herself than the familiar English she has spoken hitherto. Lady Audley's Secret He had spoken in his usual husky and sibilant voice. With the Procession The sibilant murmur of a pretty stiff breeze now and then through the trees. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy The silence sang sibilant in his ears; and he grew conscious of a sense of anxiety and fear stifling in its intensity. The Brass Bowl From the next room there came a succession of husky sibilant sounds, as though someone were whispering hurriedly and continuously. Robert Elsmere But does the dislike of the double sibilant account for the dropping of the s in these cases? Among My Books Second Series He spoke slowly, musingly, in his huskily sibilant tones. With the Procession The wind in the patch of pine woods off there—how sibilant. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy And what a slidingly musical use he makes of the sibilants with which our language is unjustly taxed by those who can only make them hiss, not sing! Among My Books First Series Outside there was again silence... faintly disturbed only by that softly sibilant, almost muted percussion which recalls inevitably the month of June.... The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors But mingled with it there came from another section a horrible sibilant sound, the stage death warrant of many an artist's dreams, the modern down-turned thumb of the Roman populace demanding a gladiator's doom. The Mountebank His own voice was dry, husky, sibilant—sixty years of Lake Michigan. With the Procession The recurring sibilants, the sound without sense, the fine architectural imagery, all point to the great Lady Alfred. Ptomaine Street He loved the grinding, clashing and rending sibilants and explosives as Tennyson the tender-hefted liquids…. A Study of Poetry "A-a-ah!" he emitted in a long sibilant cry of repressed rage. Under the Skylights He heard the soft sibilant sound of a breath drawn quickly in. The Shadow of the East A sibilant hiss rose in the back of the room. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause Henrietta hated the mournful looks of these ancient cousins, the shaking of their black beads, their sibilant whisperings, and in their presence she was dry-eyed and rather rude. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing “Shhh,” her mother said, a sibilant sound that matched the rustling of the leaves on the Liberty Tree. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom She was giving, in a sweet sibilant murmur, the man seated next her—Monsieur d'Agreste, the man who refused to bear his title—her views of the girl. In and out of Three Normady Inns To the last he had seen that noble countenance preserve its immutable calm, and in the hush that followed the sibilant fall of the great knife his voice suddenly rang out. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series But sibilantly, steadily, ominously the derogatory hisses were threaded with the frank clamor of welcome; hisses whose sources were concealed. All-Wool Morrison She stared in stupefaction at Hicks's heated, foolish face; she started at his wild movements, and listened with dawning intelligence to his hiccup-broken speech, with its thickened sibilants and its wandering emphasis. The Lady of the Aroostook The sibilant noise made by the mother's lips crossed the space and the listening lad halted and looked round. The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl How they squeal, and chatter, and chirp, and trill, always in scattered troops of fifty or a hundred, filling the air with a fine sibilant chorus! The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton He spoke, with a certain hesitation, a beautiful Castilian, delicately lisping the sibilants and strongly throating the gutturals; and what he said you could believe. Familiar Spanish Travels No plant on earth rustles in such a horribly metallic fashion when the wind blows through those everlastingly withered branches; the noise chills one to the marrow; it is like the sibilant chattering of ghosts. Old Calabria The sounds of this most stilly night are almost wholly of the faintly pulsing sea—sibilant and soft. My Tropic Isle The exercises began with a theme in Armenian—a language which, but for its English abundance of sibilants, and a certain German rhythm, was wholly outlandish to our ears. Venetian Life Polly had initiated him in the mysteries of a discovery of mine, that it is not necessary to finish your sentence in a crowd, but by a sort of mumble, omitting sibilants and dentals. The Best American Humorous Short Stories Pascal came out of this panting, haggard, his speech sibilant and painful. Doctor Pascal Again she strained her eyes, when still again those soft, sibilant whisperings sounded weird and quite inexplicable. The House of Whispers All the sibilants in his words seemed to detach themselves, hissing, from the rest of the sounds. Hilda Lessways How well I knew that soft, sibilant invocation! Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch The sibilant sound of whispering voices died down after a few minutes and then began the long tedious wait for the return of the jury. The Hampstead Mystery Faint under the desolate sound another—sibilant, clearer, uncannily human. The Magnetic North As she passed Elfreda's room she heard her name uttered in a sibilant whisper. Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College A sound came from the direction not unlike that of a sibilant wind. The Prince of India — Volume 01 Above I could hear the soft, sibilant sound of the escaping gas, not unlike the hiss of a snake. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch He worked with a napkin at a cork: there was a restrained sibilant escaping pressure, and the liquid rose in frothing bubbles through the ice. Cytherea From below came the sibilant hiss of a man seeking to attract her attention. Beverly of Graustark Indeed during those fierce hours no sea was visible, for the whole surface was caught up and carried furiously into the air, like snow-drift on the prairies, sibilant, relentless. The Hawaiian Archipelago It was too dark to see anything, but she could hear the sibilant slap of the water against the side of the scow and the brush of rain on the river. The Iron Woman Harry was smoking and he indrew an inhalation from his pipe with a long sibilant sound: her answer was very well understood by him. This Freedom Above the drum he thought he could hear the sibilant dissatisfaction of the throng striving for an eternity of youth. Cytherea A faint, sibilant sound drew my glance upward, and there overhead a bat circled—circled—dipped—and flew off toward the distant woods. Bat Wing Each syllable and word ends with a vowel, and there are none of our rasping and sibilant consonants. The Hawaiian Archipelago The wind made a curious sound, something between an infuriated whistle and the sibilant noise a man makes when he draws his breath in sharply between his teeth. Over Prairie Trails Their breath came and went sibilantly, and the darkness was alive with the excitement they thought themselves too warrior-like to utter. King of the Khyber Rifles From the plaza below came a low sibilant conversation. Cytherea |
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