| 单词 | sibilation |
| 例句 | Something about the patience in her phrasing and the delicacy of her sibilation always turns the clock into vapor. Review | Lana Del Rey is a realist — and reality is weird 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z "We are having a big night, sir," he said, with the peculiar sibilation of his kind and with his broad, flat hands clasped together. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z When a bird called one started involuntarily, for the air was so muffled and heavy that it was strange to find it open instantly to let free the delicate sibilation. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z He then would have told her alone, but even as he tried to hush his voice, it seemed to pierce the quietude "with frightful audibility, like the sibilation of a possessing spirit." Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The South-American Spaniards, so largely recruited from Andalusia, maintain the same sibilation, which is about as offensive to a true Castilian as the dropping of an H is to an educated Englishman. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z The reptile hissed, accompanying the sibilation with a sharp “skirr” of its tail. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z "Sit here, you terrors, while I get the cloth on the dining-room table," and out she went, her laughter dying in sibilations along the diminutive corridor. Sinister Street, vol. 2 They make it clear and penetrating; yet it seems a poor, effeminate sibilation, and no generous, open-mouthed call. To Cuba and Back At the same time a sibilation of leaves ran through the sultry air. Shadows of Flames A Novel There was something dismal, something of the sick-room, in this perpetual, guarded sibilation. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) "Ah, it isn't quite like a gentleman's stealing a few spoons," old Corey began, in the gentle way he had, and with a certain involuntary sibilation through the gaps between his front teeth. The Quality of Mercy Bob whistled,—a long sibilation of amazement,—and then laughed and laughed again. A Tar-Heel Baron A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 When a lady walks through a college quadrangle and hears no sibilation, let her know sadly that first youth is past. Pipefuls Here then we are not much impressed with the opposition of physicists and astronomers, fearing, a little mournfully, that their language is of expiring sibilations. The Book of the Damned Cornelia always frowned, and drew her breath in long sibilations, when she was trying hard to get a thing right. The Coast of Bohemia The pattering becomes a rushing in the tree-tops, a wild sibilation as of serpents in the fire, and a steady rattling and whizzing in the swamps. The Drummer Boy Suddenly, like the hiss of ten thousand times ten thousand snakes, a rushing sibilation passed through the momentarily darkened air. The Mark of the Beast The oats hung their curved heads of little pendulous bells, and gave out a low murmuring sibilation—its only lament that its day was over, and sun and wind no more for it. Alec Forbes of Howglen The sibilations of that whistle were prophetic of atmospheric disturbance to come. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties "Whew!" whistled Dr. Hawkes; and the sibilation was repeated by Uncle Moses, for each of them weighed over two hundred and a quarter. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East S has a hissing sound, as sibilation, sister. A Grammar of the English Tongue As Dr. Johnson would have said: Sir, there was a habit of sibilation in the house. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Challenger walked across to the oxygen tube, and the sound of the loud hissing fell away till it was the most gentle sibilation. The Poison Belt Sibilation -- N. sibilance, sibilation; zip; hiss &c. v.; sternutation; high note &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent-minded men. Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent- minded men. Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4 Boardman appeared shocked, and yet somewhat amused; he made a soft low sibilation between his teeth. April Hopes He was silent long enough to whet an imagined expectation; then he set his face towards the sky, and began a soft, low, coaxing sibilation between his teeth. Dr. Breen's Practice Her voice was peculiar, very low and sweet, and so soft that the dominant note was of sibilation. Lair of the White Worm The world was still, except for the sibilation of the whispering heads bunched together over the table. Within the Tides |
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