| 单词 | sough |
| 例句 | There was a continual soughing movement inside the wood, and the leaves rustled together like silk, directly overhead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There was only the soughing wind and his and Calvin’s footsteps. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew harder, soughing in the treetops. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I could hear the sough of it on the square surfaces of my camper top. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Grey-eyed Athena stirred them a following wind, soughing from the north-west on the winedark sea, and as he felt the wind, Telemakhos called to all hands to break out mast and sail. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The assembly looked with him, considered the vast stretches of water, the high sea beyond, unknown indigo of infinite possibility, heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The pines above them soughed in the fresh sea wind. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shaper sings—the harp soughing out through the long room like summer wind—“By deeds worth praise a man can, in any kingdom, prosper!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The soundtrack soughs and swells in step with the slowly moving cameras, occasionally giving way to the music of wind, water and birdsong. When TV Goes Right Past Meditative to Vegetative 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z At night, in ominous old Thornfield Hall, the shutters clatter threateningly, and a soughing wind slips through the cracks like a ghost's vengeful moaning. Jane Eyre: Mamma Mia, a Star Is Born! 2011-03-11T06:45:00Z Jafari sough the person’s help to get work in the county and paid the person between $1,000 and $1,500 in cash, prosecutors said. Former executive pleads guilty to bribing Atlanta officials 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Ultimately, when large depositors sough to withdraw more than $40 billion in a single day, the bank couldn’t pay out the funds. Fed official: Regulators will ensure all deposits are ‘safe’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The administration could have sough a legal stay, said Brettny Hardy, a senior attorney with Earthjustice, and the Interior Department could also have offered a much smaller slice of the Gulf for lease. More oil now, less oil later: Biden’s tricky message on energy 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z In the suit, Wagoner sough a hefty chunk of Parton's income over the course of several years. Dolly Parton addresses Britney Spears' conservatorship: 'I went through a lot of that myself' 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Nixon adopted a new message after Republicans suffered deep losses in the 1970 midterm elections when they sough to resurrect law and order as a focus. AP Analysis: Trump bets presidency on ‘law and order’ theme 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z You saved your money like that instead of blowing it on beer and trinkets to send to your folks, who had no need of conch shells that carried home the sound of the soughing sea. “Do Not Stop” 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona sough the investigation and asked that it be limited in scope and last no more than a week. The Latest: White House not ‘micromanaging’ Kavanaugh probe 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Richardson will be a free agent and his big-play ability could make him highly sough. What happened to the Seahawks, and where do they go from here? 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Superior Court, Jones’ attorneys sough unsuccessfully to suppress evidence based on the warrantless use of a Stingray and appealed his eventual conviction. Warrantless cellphone tracking unconstitutional: D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Mead proposes funds for various ongoing building projects and athletics, although not as much as the university sough. UW football coach testifies before legislative panel 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z That steady soughing tells us all that we know so far, and all that we don’t yet—and may never—know, about this atrocity, the deadliest aviation catastrophe in France in more than three decades. A Bewildering Crash 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z And the sea, the constant soughing, night and day, that sometimes in a storm turns into roaring and hissing. Karl Ove Knausgaard Travels Through America 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Lerner sough to have her 'personal files' restored not her 'messages'. Republicans, at Hearing on Lost Emails, Accuse I.R.S. Chief of Lying 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z On Friday morning, more than 150 members of the tribe fled the reserve and sough refuge in a nearby military base. Brazil police search Amazon reserve 2013-12-29T01:49:40Z To hint at the experience of hearing a massive flock of the highly social pigeons, Barksdale layered several calls from different individuals with the sound of wings flapping and wind soughing through trees. Audubon's Birds Live On Long after His Death [Slide Show] 2013-05-17T18:15:00.220Z For the next hour there were no sounds but for a rustle of newsprint and the gentle soughing suck of hot liquid through a small plastic aperture. T. Coraghessan Boyle: “The Night of the Satellite.” 2013-04-08T04:00:00Z Rick Scott sough to purge non-citizens from the state’s voting rolls, leading to lawsuits and counter-suits by citizens who were erroneously disenfranchised. TIME's 10 Most Underreported Stories of the Year 2012-12-29T05:35:29Z Even as much of the nation is focused on him, with television networks airing biographical documentaries and the cable news pundits chattering around the clock from Tampa, Romney sough to avoid the spotlight. Mitt Romney stays out of the spotlight in run-up to Republican convention 2012-08-27T21:58:00Z The wind soughs ominously just now, however, while there is a note in it which I do not like, and which I cannot understand. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z The soughing of the wind through the chestnut trees, the drifting clouds, and the sharp ring of hoofs on the road, all laid as it were a solemn finger on the pulses and stilled them. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z He scanned the dark house, and tried to sift from the soughing of the wind any sound that might inform him. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z All was silent, save for the soughing of the wind across the square. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z How much more when the sough of the wind seems to the imagination a cry of pain, and the night is a dark background on which the fancy paints dying faces! The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z They could faintly hear the soughing of the wind in the trees. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z With the wind soughing among the firs and rustling through the scanty grass, the place on that bleak shoulder seemed lonely even at night. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The soughing of the wind through the tops of the pines and the larches and the firs deadened any little scratching sound their snow-shoes may have made as they moved onward. Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds 2012-02-27T03:00:13.497Z He did not move, but stood like one spellbound, listening to the wind as it soughed its way through the shrubs and trees which grew in the centre of the Square. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z A hoarse soughing as of a winded horse came and went regularly, with a dull rumbling and creaking that seemed to shake the place. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The chevalier reclined in his chair, gulping in stentorous slumber, while Gabrielle sat listening to the saddest sound in the world--the soughing of the winter wind. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z It was an agitated hand that shook it--a woman's hand--for his hearing, sharpened by excitement, detected the sough of silk, the unsteady grope of fingers fumbling above a handle's usual place. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z An old woman sitting by the fire at night—a storm raging without—hears the mournful sough of the wind. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z To a human, there was nothing to see or hear or smell—other than the cool beauty of the nook, the soughing of the breeze in the willows, the soft fragrance of a June morning. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The window was open, and from the garden a light wind brought the soughing of trees into the room. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The soft sough of its respiration was hardly audible in the hollows of the rocks. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z In his soul there was a sound like the last sough of water in an emptying bathtub. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z His voice was rich and sweet, and though he sang low it could be heard distinctly enough by all, and it mingled almost mournfully with the soughing of the wind through the tall trees. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z But I never fully heard the "eddying song" that "flooded" the creeping mosses and clambering weeds, And the willow branches hoar and dank, And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Looking, he saw no man; hearkening, he heard nothing now but the wind soughing in the chimney and Soetkin weeping under her bedclothes. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z There was just one little painful quiver of the limbs, then a gentle soughing sigh, and—Keebo was gone. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z “Us clim’ saddles, stick gedder an’ must get away!” shouted Tally, trying to be heard above the soughing of the wind, that was now blowing from behind the crag. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Then she heard the soft, low sounds, the plaintive viols swell, till they became a dull, continuous soughing. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Each nation, people, or tribe in past history has had some ceremony, symbolic in its nature, by which honors and dignities were conferred upon those who sough honor and preferment. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z He has left us, however, a rare and interesting reference to the soughing in the pines on the Adriatic, which shows how well his ear could interpret its solemn beauty. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Silence now, except for the wind soughing through the tall mysterious-looking pine trees, or the occasional bark of fox or scream of night bird. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Before every one was hitched securely to the horse in front, so that a long line of riders traveled in file, a soughing wind could be heard coming from the north. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z III The north wind moaned and soughed about the eaves of the low log trading post on Lashing Water. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Small stones loosened from under his feet, and the soil and gravel came tumbling down, otherwise it was quite still, save the sound of the river from behind with its subdued and ceaseless sough. Ovind A Story of Country Life in Norway 2011-10-13T02:00:43.280Z When she stood there again it was the brown withered leaves that rustled around her, and the wind had a wintry sough in it. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z And on nights of storm—then it is that I lie awake listening to the wind roaring through the stately elms, with a sound like the sough of gale-tossed waves. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z Mr. Strong, who had placed himself on the footstool and was making soughing noises by expelling the air from his locked hands, appeared to be brooding over his forthcoming number. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z There, a sough of glory Shall breathe on you as you come, Ruffling round the doorway All the light of angeldom. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I 2011-09-20T02:00:18.217Z She lay quite still trying to determine what it could be, and hearing only the soughing of the wind. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z Very well, so be it, but I thought at first that it was the wind soughing through this old pine-tree of ours. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z There was no sound outside except the soughing of the wind through the jungle and the lackadaisical chatter of the pargams and lories. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z You can imagine, too, the consternation of the peaceful inmates of the open pools, whose laughter had now and then risen above the sough of the wind and splash of the water. The Other Fellow 2011-08-23T02:00:31.420Z Then the children heard some sobbing sound soughing through the silence and they knew that they were saved. The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z And there in a quiet grave, over which the poplar leaves restlessly moved soughing in the wind, we laid him to rest, where the wicked ceased from troubling and the weary were at rest. Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z In the case of many happy children the interest in the sounds of things, e.g., the gurgle of running water, the soughing of the trees, is a large one. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z There was no other sound, except the soughing of the breeze through the tree-tops. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z Often and often had the sorceress in the winter nights heard the soughing of the north wind and paid it no attention, but now she was overwhelmed with fear! The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z A wind soughing in the roses, no, a yellow phosphorescence. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z A brooding stillness hung over the encampment, broken only by the sough of the wind as it wandered about the huts, or stirred the branches of the pines on the hills. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z The chill October wind soughed through the swaying tree-tops, laden with the rich ozone that gives life, health, and happiness to all animate beings that are permitted to inhale it. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z But, although every now and then the wind curled and soughed about her, it was not violent, nor was it chilling; and she came to regard it as a wail of discomfiture. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z A current of cold wind, coming up from the valley of the Sarre, carried upon its breeze, like a great sigh, the endless roar of the torrents and soughing of the woods. The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z His senses are saturated with the warmth of summer days, the fragrance of roots and trees, the soughing of the woods, and the tiny noises of all the things that live in the forest. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z Without, the wild shrieking of the wind and the swish and sough of pine branches furiously tossing to the eddying gusts. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z The silence of the Alp-spirit, as silent as death itself, was in it; only at intervals was heard the whispering 'sough' of some slip of snow, dislodged by the warmth of the mid-day sun. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Now I sit in my room, with windows closed, listening with gratitude to the pelting rain and the soughing of the wind through the dripping trees. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 2011-06-29T02:00:26.507Z The soughing gloom through which Baird rode was mournful on a March day, but he had some conception of what it must be like in summer, cool and sweet-scented and perpetually whispering. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z Then the wind soughed through the rocks with its prolonged organ tone and for the moment McKee could only guess what happened out there. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z The rising wind began to sough and moan over the house, and to call ghostly whisperings from the bare, chafing branches of the crowded oak trees. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z The wind continued to rumble in the chimney and sough in the trees outside; but, save for that, no sound broke the silence. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z The wind soughed through the marsh grass, the waves rippled against the shore, and father told us stories. Average Americans 2011-06-02T02:00:20.387Z I recall that afternoon: the heavy first-of-December skies; the gray-black look on the hemlocks; the faded trunks of the lindens; the dullness of the unreflecting snow; the intermittent soughing of the wind in the pines. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z The clouds were coming up more rapidly from the west; day was drawing down into them; the wind on the heights soughed restlessly. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Then Ruth heard the gentle soughing of the waves on the strand below the camp, and she took heart again. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z The wind had grown much higher, and was soughing and moaning round our eyrie. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z The thymy wind would sough into his face: clear beam the solemn lights; the woods shiver softly. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Standing there alone, with the call of rushing waters, patter of rain, and sough of a sad wind in his ears, Seyd was able to understand the peons’ superstitious fear. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z I'll get me out upon the heath, where I can hear the sough of the night winds, and listen to the night-birds' screech. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Its haggard visage looked pityingly down upon a boy-heart clasping a rifle to his breast like a brother, his dream-dizzied head, pillowed upon the soughing bosom of a wilderness world—fast asleep. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Then came sounds of low thunder, mingled with a sough of the winds as they swept in from the distant ocean. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z There could be no harm in listening to these sounds, since the sough of the sea hindered him from making out what was said. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Above the sough of the wind which drove the sheeting rain into his face he caught the roar of the oncoming flood. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z A light wind stirred the foliage with a soft soughing movement, and some animal straying to the river to drink trod crisply on the dry pebbles. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Then again, beneath the nearer tumult, this natant, ill rhythm died down to a measured, sinister moan, echoing through the stone corridors in soughing jabs, like sounds marking the visitation of some maimed Hydra. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z It was a soughing, the sort of wind that makes stock uneasy; and VB caught that disquieting vibration. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z The recitative of hope soughed into a chorus of disappointment as the moneyed young man clutched his half dozen tickets and started for the inner door. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The melancholy sough of the wind could be heard above the low moan of the distant sea. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z To my ears it sounded like the surging of water—as of heavy rain, or the sough of distant rapids. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z It was a mere fancy; but I listened to the soughing murmur with the thought that they were reciting to each other some of his best psalms of praise and thanksgiving. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z He felt the fanning of the wind, heard, dimly, its uneasy soughing. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z To their overwrought senses each breath the other drew was as the sough of a tempest, and they scarcely understood how the sentry could not hear. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Poets before him imitated in the harmony of their verse the monotony of sources and the babbling of water over pebbles, or the soughing voice of the wind. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Just here there entered that lovely night wind, rising far away beyond the low lakes to the south—it soughed through the room, swaying the draperies, sighing, sighing, and it blew out the candle. The Master of the Inn 2011-02-26T03:00:51.930Z How I enjoyed these Pentland rambles, alone in the rain and the soughing winds! Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z A deep soughing, a shuddering groaning of trees and shrubs, came ever and again out of the ravine, and the powdery snow blew like puffs of smoke from the branches. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Henceforward, it is said, in the dead silence of the castle at night a faint, pitiful cry, now drowned in the soughing storm outside, now audible in the dreadful pause, echoes from under the ground. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z Mysteriously, as though from a far distance, came the soughing of the wind through the trees, swelling ever stronger and stronger, and then sinking again, dying away like a long-drawn sigh. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z The torrent tearing along the bottom of the “barranca” sent its “sough” into our ears—filling them to the exclusion of almost every other sound. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Rain was pattering on the darkened window-panes, and the soughing wind at irregular intervals drove clouds of smoke down my chimney. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z A hummock to the westward offered shelter from the weakly bitter wind, the icy draught, that was soughing down the valley. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z There is always a big fire before each shanty when we retire for the night; but after you get into bed, the soughing of the winds through the trees of the forest sounds very weird. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z None but an attentively alert ear could have detected it amid the soughing of the wintry wind and the murmur of the stream over its stony bed. Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout 2011-02-07T03:00:22.570Z I heard something, and it was not the wind; for, though a breeze was soughing in the pines without, the sound of footsteps was distinctly audible. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Only the sough of the storm, the ceaseless plash of the torrent, went on as before. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Then, with frequent replenishment of the fire, they had watched out the weary hours till morning, alarmed by every falling brand or sough of the breeze, or resonant crack of frost-strained trees. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z Oh, Miss Jerusha, no wonder your chin drops as you think of it, and a sigh comes whistling through your pursed-up lips like a sough of wind in a mainsail. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z What it was she hardly knew; it was like the soughing of the wind in the pine branches, and, through it, echoed once more all the old forest music with its mysterious chords. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z Those who talked did so in a drawling monotone that was keyed properly to the monotone of the soughing trees outside—elbows on knees and eyes on the pole floor. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Oh, grandfather, what are the winds That sough and moan and sigh? The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z A cold wind swept across the water and soughed in the bare branches. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The autumn wind sighs, and soughs, in this old dwelling, as it rushes through the long passages from the water side. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z The cold, sticky leaves, the wet, shining bark of the trees, and the chilling wind that soughs through the wood, all induce a feeling of desolation and dislike. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z The sound echoes out over the water and comes back again, thrilling with the chatter of birds and the soughing of the breeze in the branches overhead. 2010-01-11T05:00:00Z "True, Stubbs; and you will likewise observe there is no wind to sough through key-holes," retorted Hopkins, severely, rising and walking to the window. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile It lies just in the bosom of woods, too, in the centre of a lovely haugh, where the river soughs along, like the echo of the cooing of the cushats in the plantations. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 The crisp wind of earliest dawn made a dry sough among the evergreens of the shrubbery. Deep Moat Grange All listened for a moment, and heard the distant booming of thunder, and the soughing of the wind through the trees that stood near the house. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z For the creaking of sail, And the sough of the gale, And splashing of waves, are the songs that ne'er fail; Too—ra—lah, too—ra—loo, too—ra—lay! Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The sun was lost among their dark branches, and the breeze which passed through them soughed mournfully. The Man from Jericho Now, with the rain weeping in soughing gusts through them, they offered her no comfort. The Valiants of Virginia The air was full of sunlight and the tinkling of the little waterfalls and the slow soughing of the seas below. The Wonderful Visit Not a sound could be heard save the soughing of the wind among the foliage, or the countless faint noises of the night which tell of life when the world is supposed to be sleeping. On the Kentucky Frontier A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West Only the wind sped past the window with low soughing, and between the planks of the ceiling the mice scampered about. The Wish A Novel The gloomy night sky, the tossing trees, the soughing wind, nothing else far or near. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Involuntarily the two men shivered, as with a soughing murmur a blast of icy wind swept down from the peaks of Pe�alara, and the Basque gripped his companion by the arm. The Firebrand The moon was rising and her soft light was shed upon the soughing trees, and the stretch of white roadway before them. With Edge Tools The poet who confounds it with the gentle soughing breeze never lives to tell about it. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder I grew a stranger to you--in sorrow and misery I have to think of you, and the consciousness of guilt appals me when the soughing wind whispers your name in my ear. The Wish A Novel But for the soughing wind, the world is still. Faith and Unfaith Some of them were a year old, but she read them all carefully through, while the clock ticked on the shelf and the wind soughed in the chimney. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life From the low, dingy horizon came at intervals subdued soughs of wind that broke on the projecting headlands with a muffled cry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 You could see the heat, and if anything had soughed it could only have been the mercury in my thermometer. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder He heard the sough and rattle as the water arched, foamed a moment, plashed heavily, and then retired, dragging the rounded stones downward in its suck. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion He dreamt of her all night; her voice rang in his ear right through the soughing of the wind which beat against the ill-fitting windows of the wheel-house. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel The low drone of Ethyl's voice talking to a customer, the tick of the clock, the click and sough of the elevator were thrice magnified. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole It seemed to come from a great distance, like the soughing of the wind in the trees, sad, mysterious, supernatural. Thirty The pines soughed dreamily and waved their needle tipped arms in a lazy, indolent manner, wafting fragrance and vigor to the world. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter The wind was rising fast, and coming in heavy soughs from off the sea. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One His heart grows under its pleasant sounds, and is moved like the foliage by the soughing breezes. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa The wind soughed in their ears, and Goldie's skirts blew backward like sails. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Above the ripple of the water and the sough of the wind in the trees the sounds proceeding from the nose of the Dutchman could be distinctly heard. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Under his window he could hear the soughing of the wind and it sucked under the door; he was sure that he would never be warm here again. Fairfax and His Pride And sometimes when the wind soughed through its branches it seemed as if she could translate what it said. Helen Grant's Schooldays The wind moaned above him, and the soughing branches seemed to whisper croaking warnings, but he ran on, his eyes constantly seeking signs of Vilma's course. Isle of the Undead All was still but the rushing water and the gentle soughing of the wind in the tops of the towering pines. The Mountain Girl It was on a dark November night—the heavy sough of a coming storm sent large and sullen waves on shore, where they broke with that low hollow cadence, that seamen recognise as boding ill. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Almost instinctively his eyes sough those of Davy Jones, and a look of intelligence passed between them. The Boy Scouts in the Rockies or the Secret of the Hidden Silver Mine A deep silence around, only broken by the soft soughing of the wind in the trees, and the splashing of a couple of fountains near, playing a dirge-like accompaniment to Raphael's and my voice. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The night was musical with the clash of rushing waters, crisp and lively above the long, soughing drone of the wind in the trees. The Destroying Angel Through myriad leafless branches the wind soughed pleasantly overhead, unfelt by her, so completely was she protected by the thickly growing laurel and rhododendron on either side of her path. The Mountain Girl On the right side of the road stood a low fisher-hut, half-buried in the tall, thick reeds, which bent their heads to the soughing of the morning wind. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 And she caused a great wind to spring up, and it came soughing through the house from the north-west; and the King said, “This is the sigh of the winter night.” The Irish Fairy Book There are the leaves rubbing against one another with a pleasant soughing noise. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway There were cries, the dim glow of an opened door high up, the sough of pouring waters in the darkness, a shadowy phantom and a swirl of propellers, and she was gone. Command November comes as Autumn's requiem, To sigh and sough the harvest, and the field, The winged ecstatics mourn, and then are dumb, And life and growth in full submission yield. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation From the direction of the breached and smoking buildings, there rose yet again the soughing roar of jet engines gathering speed. World of the Drone Several minutes go by, and nothing can be heard save the soughing of the rising wind, and the turbulent rushing of the stream below. Portia or By Passions Rocked There came a sough from the people as his words ran over them, like a soothing and fanning wind blowing winningly among the trees of the wood. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway He could hear the sough of water, and there was a faint phosphorescence along the ship's side. Command The wind was soughing in the trees like a wandering spirit, while far in the distance the faint howl of a wolf was heard. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon The wind came soughing up the cañon with the sound of the sea. Through Our Unknown Southwest The lightning was decreasing perceptibly, while the occasional peals of thunder were scarcely audible above the soughing of the wind. The Silent Barrier So all the people stood up on the hillside and the sough of their uprising was like the wind among the cedar trees. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway The only sounds, save the soughing sighs of the giant branches, are the chime of the waterfall and the chirping of birds. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The darkness was absolutely impenetrable, and the wind, as it soughed through the wet branches, made the most dreary and dismal wailing—enough to strike despair to the bravest heart. Through Apache Lands Winds scented with oil of sagebrush and aroma of pines come soughing through the juniper hills. Through Our Unknown Southwest Instead of the couch of soft, dry sand, on which they had stretched their tired frames, they now stood up to their ankles in water,—which was soughing and surging around them. The Boy Slaves The great stick whistled through the air, soughing like a willow-wand. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway It is only when the northeaster soughs in the eaves and brings him leisure that he drops into narrative. Old Plymouth Trails We could hear the cracking of planks tortured by the blaze; the crash of falling roofs, while the flames shot up to an immense height with the hissing and soughing of a hurricane. Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline With my head against the reversing engine wheel I could feel the slow vibration of the anchor coming up, and hear the sough of the exhaust coming back from the windlass. Aliens Mist swathed the hill-tops and rolled along the slopes, the rain fell monotonously, and the river, invisible in the darkness, mingled its melancholy music with the fitful soughing of the wind. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 I listened to every sough of the wind, with a fear lest the clanking halberts of the watch should be in it. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Through all the nights during which she had watched she had never felt the room so still as it seemed now between the gusts and soughing of the wind. Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 A stormy wind soughed in the upper atmospheric regions. The Grandee There was no sound but the muted soughing of the night wind in the trees—not a footfall, not the clap of a hoof or the echo of a motor’s whine. The Bandbox Through it all, he kept listening eagerly for the sough of wind among branches... The Wilderness Trail Yet though we listened with all our ears, we heard no other sound than just that blind and unkindly wind reestling and soughing about the house, groping at the doors and trying the lattices. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway It was midnight, brightly starlit, and silent save for the low soughing of the waves upon the shore. The Count's Chauffeur Nevertheless, those quarrels disquieted his soul, and he heard the sough of discontents rising afar off, like the roar of the bars of Ayr when they betoken a coming tempest. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters The darkness was no longer dark, the tapping of the fingers against the window-panes and the soughing of the wind round the house had all at once lost their terror. Absolution No sound was audible save the soughing of night wind in the trees, the shrilling of insects. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Only the same strange chill wind went round the house, soughing and moaning blindly as before, and a smoor of white fog blew like muirburn past the door. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Then the water soughs away through the scuppers. An Ocean Tramp The Queen had been in a manner lanerly with her ladies when the sough of the coming multitude reached her. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters The wind soughed and howled and rattled at the windows, over which Charley had stretched heavy blankets, and it seemed to his startled imagination that someone was groping at the door. Shadow Mountain Outside was the soughing of a coming storm, a chill wind drove a tumult of leaves along the terrace, the door slammed and yawned open again, and then came the rain. The Passionate Friends A soughing wind went round the house and round the house, whispering and groping, like a forlorn ghost trying to find his way within. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Dreary uplands, the hiss of rain, the sough of drifting snow, the patient plod of a mule along a perilous trail. The Pathless Trail The multitude uttered a fearful sough; Elspa Ruet, roused by it, rushed from my grandfather towards her sister, and stooping, tried to raise her up. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters The great vampire bats that soughed through it symbolized the “pestilence that walketh in darkness.” Carmen Ariza There was a crackling of boughs in the old apple-trees, and from the ridge behind the house came the deep, soft, murmurous soughing of pines. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The wind whistles through the rigging overhead, and sounds like the sough of victory through the air. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I That afternoon, while the storm soughed without, the 51 cow and horse were comfortably quartered in their small stable, which was banked with straw to keep out the cold. The Eye of Dread In that state she had not been long, when the sough of a din gathering at a distance was heard. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters Naught was heard save the droning of the students and the sough of the wind in the forest. Dreamers of the Ghetto The old man doubtless wanted a sough of peace in his own home. An Orkney Maid She pondered it all with ever-deepening perplexity until a change came over the night--a wind stirred, leaves rattled, boughs soughed plaintively, the waters wakened and filled the void of silence with soft clashing. Nobody Your feet sink into it frequently ankle deep, and you lift them out with a sough. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 Through the amplifier came the muted roar of the breakers and the low soughing of the wind. Made in Tanganyika The air soughed out in response to his swift thrust at a lever, a second door opened, and he was on the outside, reeling from the blast of that inferno of light and heat. The Great Dome on Mercury Spoken Gaelic is akin to the elements: it has a mystic affinity with the winds that sough around the flanks of the mountains and along the surface of the lonely lochs. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The slowly withering leaves trembled in the breeze and their soughing sounded eerie in the night, like the sighs of a departing soul. A Bride of the Plains Ursula became aware of the night around her, the water lapping and running full just near, the trees roaring and soughing in gusts of wind. The Rainbow The walls of the school-room are plain, but are not complete without the usual picture of the bamboo swaying in the wind or soughing in the moonlight. Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The only sound was the soughing gurgle of the water as it lapped along the steel plates, and the distant drone of the rapids. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China The sound of the streams, as Ruskin has pointed out, is sweet and rhythmic to an extraordinary degree, combining with the sough of the winds to form an undersong of Nature's own melody. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Her voice died away in the soughing of the wind. A Bride of the Plains "It's got a fearsome kind of a sough to it," said Callum apprehensively. The Silver Maple Nothing save the wind soughing dismally among the rafters responded to her call, uttered with her loudest voice, and a fresh shiver of fear crept over her. The Brass Bound Box The two men flung themselves upon the clay, while high-powered bullets plunked on either side of them or soughed overhead. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China November chill blaws loud wi' angry sough; The shortening winter day is near a close —Burns. The Wide, Wide World In one of the lyrical effusions, man is informed that when he goes to heaven— "Then a sough of glory Shall your entrance greet, Ruffling round the doorway The smooth radiance it shall meet." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Her eyes roamed about her unceasingly for every bit of prettiness, her ears caught the symphony of bird and brook and soughing wind. Seven Miles to Arden Novel thoughts are rife; fresh impulses stir the nations; the soughing of the wind of progress strikes every ear. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition She heard the voice of her beloved in the sough of the wind among the trees, and it made her inexpressibly melancholy. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius But now the screech of the night bird and the soughing of the wind fell upon deaf ears for she was so absorbed in the one idea of getting home that all else was unheeded. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls We wonder what meaning Miss Barrett attaches to the word sough! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 In the “sough” of the torrent, we heard their sighs—in its roar, the groans of their departing spirits! The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Over and over the same round his thoughts went, till, worn out with anxiety and watching, and lulled unconsciously by the soft “sough” of the wind in the pines, he fell asleep. David Fleming's Forgiveness Art thou a flecking, brave Bluebird, of sky light, Or the sough of a minor wove into a beam? How the Flag Became Old Glory "Where is he now?" she asks herself with a shivering sigh, as she listens to the restless creak and sough of the trees. Only an Irish Girl The best illustration of its barbarism is to attempt to carry it out uniformly, For spelling is easy, although We may not always knough How to spell sough. Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 Above the sough of the stream, I heard noises. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness A light breeze swept up the river, soughing through the thick woods on the nearer bank. Colorado Jim Then brokenly a little sough of life began to re-arise—a growth of hope—the fierce determination of revenge—quickening with flame—breaking into triumph. Border Ghost Stories Is it a tough old woman like me to be afeard of a sough of wind or a few drops of rain? Only an Irish Girl The wind rose a little, too, and soughed in the pine branches, to die wailing among the stones. The La Chance Mine Mystery She could see it in the evidences of tears, and she heard it in a deep sough of the breath that went all over the house. The Old Helmet, Volume I Right across the moors came the steady westerly wind, sighing and soughing, touching their cheeks with its fresh fingers. Colorado Jim No sound came from without; all was still, save for the soughing in the pines overhead. Border Ghost Stories So I had paid the money and driven back into the dark, soughing country with the diamond hoop loose in my pocket. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life He sighed like the soughing of the wind amongst the reeds. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus Somewhere in the back part of the house the bagpipes were 222 soughing a dismal kind of dirge. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 One evening, when the trees were soughing in the wind and the sun had sunk to rest, Sophie went out with her basket. Terribly Intimate Portraits The victor shoots up tall and straight, stamping and choking out the lives at his side, as surely as if his weapons were teeth and claws instead of delicate root-fibres and soughing foliage. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The sinking sun cast thick, dark shadows in the narrow valley, and a death-like silence was broken only by the soughing wind and the tinkle of the brook. Far Past the Frontier Like the spirit of unrest, the wind moaned and soughed. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Except the gentle soughing of the wind there was no sound to stir the silent night. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Then with the same deadly fear in their hearts, they hurried out into the soughing wind, down to the beach, baited on all sides by the swift-darting hissing surf. The Light of Scarthey The sentry had seated himself on a stone outside, and he too was nodding, lulled into dreamland by the sough of the wind among the solemn pines. As We Sweep Through The Deep The wind soughed eerily in the trees about the house—"working up a storm for Christmas," Uncle Jason prophesied. The Mission of Janice Day The wind blew strongly, and soughed in the stiff and leafless boughs. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Like the pibroch’s mournful sough he wailed it out, the song that cuts deep to a Scotchman’s heart in time of exile. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 A very solemn little resting-place,745 with the cedars moaning, and the winds soughing, as if in continual lament for the dead left to their care. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 It was hours ere he slept, but at last a heavy sough told her he had found oblivion. The House with the Green Shutters He was merely what he sensed from the storm and for some time he stayed this way soughing skidding around with it in his mind like a severed and desiccated old leaf. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais The wind soughed in the leafless trees that grew around the old roofless barn at the corner of the road that led to the fells. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time I knew it was the “sough” of the sea against the sides of the vessel. The Boy Tar And often when he starts upon his lonely walks, he hears the wind passing through the ragged cedars with a low, tremulous soughing and bends his ear to listen. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Whether they sounded their strange note was not known, for the “sough” of the waterfall still echoed in the ears of the canoe-men, and they could not hear aught else. Popular Adventure Tales A slight wind had arisen, which soughed its way across the great silent spaces, dispelling the mists. The Day of Judgment The night was now dark; there was no moon, and there were no stars; the wind soughed mournfully through the trees. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time A loud sough came shuddering through the frozen bushes, moaning in the grass that rustled by her path. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Yet they see life beyond, if they can but reach it,—life in a breeze, the “sough” on the water, of which Seagriff spoke. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure He lies listening to the sough of the sea, and the big drops pattering upon the planks above. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea And the wind, as it came soughing down from the hill behind, caught a loose end of the roof somewhere over her head and made as though to roll it back. Stubble The breathing of his horse appeared obstructed, and the hoarse sound, caused by its inspiration, was a mournful accompaniment to the sough of the waters that were constantly advancing. The Tiger Hunter The seaboard population on the coast of Brittany have an ocean superstition which exactly answers to this interpretation of the peculiar melancholy of the waves, soughing and pining along the beach at night. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 “It’s ay safe to keep a calm sough,” said the weaver. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not The sough of the tidal surf breaking upon the beach, the occasional cry of a soaring sea-bird, or the more continuous and melancholy note of the chuck-will’s-widow, do not attract their attention. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Again the white lids drooped and half closed again, and the pine branches waved and soughed gently to the breeze. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 A murmur fills the air as of sea-waves beating on the shore: it is the wet south-west wind soughing overhead and lashing the writhing branches. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Then the watch proceed to haul, with weird, wild cries in minor keys that rise and fall and rise again, like the long-drawn soughing of the wind itself. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways We’ll need to keep a calm sough the lave o’ us,” said Mrs Coats. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not Only the echo of his own voice reverberated along the line of houses, and dying away in the distance, as it mingles with the sough of the sea. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The snow fell ever heavier, and the winds soughed in the tree tops. The Snowshoe Trail Instead of the couch of soft, dry sand, on which they had stretched their tired frames, they now stood up to their ankles in water, which was soughing and surging around them. The Boy Slaves "Depends on what you're looking for, Sonny!" something remarked in a soughing wheeze. The Talkative Tree We listened, but there was not even the sough of wind through the trees—nothing but the beating of our own hearts. The Dew of Their Youth He could hear the sough of the sea on the beach, far down below him. Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay Thick rain-clouds were descending upon them, and we could hear the sough of the falling water. The Scalp Hunters The wind soughed, the spray pelted, the rain hammered, and the ship staggered and quivered, while over the stern swayed the boat. Gold Seekers of '49 We were close by the fire, for McGilp liked to be hearing the sough of the wind in the lum, and him snug and warm. The McBrides A Romance of Arran The sough of the wind and the fleeing cloud of night was all they saw or heard. The Dew of Their Youth Was that a long-drawn sighing breath he heard, or only the wind soughing through the waving tassels overhead? Marcia Schuyler Whether they sounded their strange note was not known, for the “sough” of the waterfall still echoed in the ears of the canoemen, and they could not hear aught else. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North The rain was lessening, too—and although the seas continued to pound, and the wind to sough, the storm seemed to be ceasing. Gold Seekers of '49 It was no louder than the sough of the night breeze. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden There is such silence up here on the tableland at mid-day—only a light soughing of the soft, hot wind, otherwise not even the cheep of a lizard. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah The rain beat upon them and the wind soughed in the trees. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace She longed avidly for the sight and the sound of many soughing trees. Joan of Arc of the North Woods The voice of the man softly imitated the soughing of the pines. The Rainy Day Railroad War No soughing of the wind could make such sounds had a tempest been blowing, but a deathly stillness prevailed, and no breath of air stirred. A Woman who went to Alaska The wail through the air and the soft "plop" of the gas shells seemed attuned to the dirge-like soughing of the wind. Pushed and the Return Push It grew clearer and yet uncannier as I sped on, and mixed with the sough of it I could hear at last the clink of chains. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Every clump of bushes seemed suspicious; he began at last to hear footsteps in every sough of wind and creak of branch. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain Yes," added Phil, nodding his head approvingly, "and if you listen, every time that scratching sound comes you can hear the wind soughing through the tree-tops. Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge The wind soughed through the pines and cedars in a fitful manner. Frank Merriwell's Cruise The trees are nearly naked: a short, sad, consumptive wind is soughing through them. Molly Bawn The tide was in close on the breast-wall behind, and the sound of it came up and moaned in the close like the sough of a sea-shell held against the ear. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn There was only one sound in nature beyond the soughing of the wind in the shrubbery of the Duke's garden, it was the plaintive call of a curlew as it flew over the stable park. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure When soughs the distant billow, An' night blasts shake the willow, Stretch'd on my lanely pillow, My dreams are a' o' thee. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The night, too, was already growing very cold, with a raw, gusty wind that soughed drearily among the willows; his bare hands and wet feet were fast becoming chilled and numb. Chums of the Camp Fire On every side high marsh grass soughed in the night wind,—plains of blackness with the red moon rising from them. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Two corpses swung in the wind, like net bows on a drying-pole, going from side to side, making the woeful sough and clink of chains, and the dunt I had heard when the wind dropped. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn They could hear the sound of his iron-shod stick die away in the soughing of the wind and the falling of the rain. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Above us, as I judged, rose the side of a small hill, and immediately without there would be a sheer drop to the departed waters, whose noise soughed like a strong wind among pine trees. The Black Colonel It does not contain the ruins of even a cabin or shanty—nothing, in fact, but trees, through which the wintry winds sough and howl dismally. Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them It was, I fancied, the soughing of the wind among the branches of tall trees. With Axe and Rifle Towards night they could tell, by the soughing of the wind in the trees and the appearance of the sky, that there was a change in the weather. The Three Admirals Not a sound was heard, except the soughing of the wind round the tower. From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure The air was filled with commands to the men, shouts to the horses, the sough of wheels in the mud, the breaking of boughs under weight, and the clank of metal. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond We were still far from the water, which roared and “soughed” in the bottom of a barranca, hundreds of feet below our path. The Rifle Rangers Is it a sonorous deception, caused by the sough of the cascade or reverberation from the rocks? The Lone Ranche His fire died down, the smoke ceased to hide the view, and through the adjacent willows came the sudden sough of moving air. A Mating in the Wilds At last the roar on the cliffs changed into a surly soughing, and the gusts edged slowly but surely round behind the great buttress of the mountain. A Dog with a Bad Name “To keep a calm sough,” to keep a quiet tongue. St. Ronan's Well As yet not a murmur had reached us from below, except the sighing of the wind through the tall trees, and the “sough” of the river as it tumbled away over its pebbly bed. The Rifle Rangers There are voices of birds mingling their music with the sough of falling water—sounds very different from those of the desert through which he has of late been straying. The Lone Ranche The trees soughed in the soft south wind, whilst the melodious sighs of the Wood-god, and the splash of the water, mingled gently with the whispering leaves. The Home Through the stillness of the night, the sighing of the ceaseless wind of the Storm Country, soughing of death and desolation, called to their minds the weird superstitions of squatter lore. The Secret of the Storm Country Not a sound except the sough of pines from the neighboring forest was heard. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories I could hear the torrent, as it roared and hissed far below, appearing directly under us; and the “sough” grew fainter and fainter as we ascended. The Rifle Rangers Call of hungry waters, patter of driving rain, sough of the weird wind, it requires good company and a red-coal fire to offset their moanings of eternity. The Spinner's Book of Fiction The faint soughing of a breeze in the tree tops, the light thuds of falling pine cones, were the only sounds to be heard outside of the breathing of her companions who were sleeping soundly. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Three hours after, Caius sough his father as the old man was making his nightly tour of the barns and stables. The Mermaid A Love Tale There is a lull, a long breathless lull, before it soughs up again. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Suddenly, in an interval between two naps, I heard a sound different from the soughing of the wind, a sound like claws or toenails scratching on the snow crust. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's For the first time the soughing of the tree-tops in the soft breeze above failed to meet their ears. Around the World in Ten Days Next to the soughing of a November wind it is, perhaps, the most dismally lonesome sound in nature. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle A hummock to the westward offered shelter from the bitter wind, the icy draught, that was soughing down the valley. The Literary World Seventh Reader The wild soughing of the wind rendered her words indistinct. The Captain of the Kansas Some large animal was walking round; several times they heard the sough of its breath. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's It dares measure itself with the terrestrial forces, exults in the fire, soughs through the forest with the thunderstorm, glitters and surges with the river, spans mountains with the rainbow bridge. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers But everywhere the taiga is the same dreary forest, without grass, birds, or insects, gloomy and lifeless, and noiseless but for the soughing of the wind and crackling of the branches. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers The sound of cats wailing and trucks rattling and babies crying was not much like the soughing of the wind in the elms up on the Blakeley lawn. Tom Slade at Temple Camp The unlucky young man, who had lowered his weapon the instant before, fell back with a "sough" against the wall, and leant there, pale and breathless. The Long Night He saw the flash of two fiery eyes in the dim light and again heard the sough of the creature's breath before he clapped the door shut and braced the gun against it. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's There is movement, a climax, a single cry of passion and despair, and then, only the soughing of wind through hoary branches. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Now, too, he noticed that the sky had become heavily overcast, and that a strong wind was soughing ominously through the tree tops. Under the Great Bear The flickering torches, the soughing wind, the lapping waves, the old, old words, lent the denunciation a solemnity which transcended the bizarre mouthpiece. The Henchman The night had begun to drizzle, and there was a sough of sou'westerly wind in the air. Foe-Farrell Cyclona lifted her head to listen to the moan and the sough of the wind. The Way of the Wind Another bullet passed over their heads and struck with a sough in the trunk of a big tree beyond them. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis He heard his own heart beat loudly, and in the still night air he heard the sough of the sea, and the harsh call of the corncrake. By Berwen Banks Deep, dying groans the aged year breathed forth, In soughing winds that wailed a requiem sad In dull crescendo through the mournful air. Violets and Other Tales Water soughed and chuckled at the foot of the crab-apple tree, but these eager little voices could no longer soothe or even detain him with their familiar assurances. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The wind, seeing his distress, soughed with a weird sweet sound like aeolian harps in the effort to comfort him, but he dropped the reins and laid his face in the hollow of his arm. The Way of the Wind Beyond the warm shelter of her cape he heard the faint soughing of the wind, which had brought the rain at last, a drowsy and monotonous rain that lulled his senses. The Mayor of Warwick I heard the fountain splashing in the moonlight and the sea-winds soughing through the palms. In Search of the Unknown I move among them dully, the stir of the streets coming to me as the soughing of wind on the desert or the wash of waves on a distant shore. The Hills of Hingham The site, rising about 120 feet above ocean-level, permits the 'Doctor,' alias the sea-breeze, to blow freshly, and we distinctly heard the sough of the surf. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative But here, as in Missouri, he looked for consolation to the wet woods, to the still, soft, straight rain, to the sighing trees that softly soughed him welcome. The Way of the Wind At two a.m., the motel lights were out and the road was dark and silent but for the soughing of wind and the distant sounds of night animals. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Alister’s eyes gave a flash or two, but on the whole he “kept a calm sough,” and put the other side of the question. We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Not a sound broke the stillness but the gurgle of water and the soft soughing of the wind through great tree tops. An Alabaster Box Through the thick leaves of the ash tree soughed the evening wind, giving a voice to the dying day. Roads from Rome The wind soughed through her dream again, pitifully, wailingly, as it had often soughed outside the dugout. The Way of the Wind Mrs. Blake was very soon in readiness, we started out into the dull, cold air, scarce noticing that the wind was blowing raw and chill from the east, and the soughing wind betokening a storm. Medoline Selwyn's Work Their footfalls sounded eerily in the night silence, broken only by the soughing of the sea wind and splash of breakers. Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X A soughing groan went up from the Grand Stand, changing to a roar, as the great horse, quick as a goat, recovered himself and settled unconcernedly to his stride again. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs "Away aloft!" he roared, as the wind soughed through the rigging, and a moment later I heard—"Bear out on the yard-arm!" From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine There came also the memory of the wind as it soughed around the dugout on those lonely nights, when he and Cyclona had planned the beautiful house for Celia. The Way of the Wind Ah, human beings can sigh as well as the wind when it soughs through the rushes and reeds. Stories from Hans Andersen Her face was in his memory; the very soughing of the wind seemed her voice calling him. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier There was the sound of a soughing wind as the crowd drew its breath. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs The wind soughed; it was going to be a wild night. The Story of Bawn She heard the sough of drapery, and a soft and striding step. Bella Donna A Novel A full, warm wind began to sough through the pines on the hillside. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 Yet no sound came to his strained ears except the soft soughing of the night wind through the trees, and the rustling of grass beneath the tread of the horses. Bob Hampton of Placer Anyhow, Droug starts, stops, back go his ears, he snuffs, Snorts,—never such a snort! then plunges, knows the sough's Only the wind: yet, no—our breath goes up too straight! An Introduction to the Study of Browning The wind soughed and died away, and in the pause we heard them plainly, wheels on the gravel outside that stopped at the door. The Story of Bawn The trees grew thickly down the slope, which the church crowned, and at the bottom of the slope rushed the river, which she heard like a refrain through the intermittent soughing of the trees. By the Light of the Soul A Novel The flare and sough of the furnace at the iron-works came and went with regular intermittency; and just beyond the group of Chiawassee stacks a tiny orange spot appeared and disappeared like a will-o'-the-wisp. The Quickening And what of the delights of these gardens—their exquisite grounds and gentle breezes, their purling streams, their soughing winds, their cooing doves and rustling leaves? The Summons of the Lord of Hosts She could hear it soughing gently through the branches of the live oaks. The Big-Town Round-Up For our sake, keep a calm sough, and dinna let a fool provoke you to break our hearts, and maybe send you into God's presence uncalled and unblessed. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York The gasp that soughed through the room as Richard spoke the name was far more of relief than of wonder, and instantly all eyes sought the accused. Beatrix of Clare But her conscious enjoyment of its comfort was short-lived for the sounds of men and horses, and the low soughing of the wind in the pine-tops blended into one, and she slept. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country Still thirteen years: 't is autumn now On field and hill, in heart and brain; The naked trees at evening sough; The leaf to the forsaken bough Sighs not,—"Auf wiedersehen!" The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Once I heard the dog yelp, far up the valley, and then there was only the soughing of the wind and the sting of the driving sleet flakes. Jacqueline of Golden River Frequently it seemed distorted; strange phantom shapes filled the deck, and the soughing of the yielding hull brought strange, uncanny sounds to their ears. Dan Merrithew Only the little cool wind that soughed among the olive leaves was like the hushed murmuring of quiet waves. The Lee Shore Now, though it was but the rustle of sweeping robes, it seemed to sough like the wind among the clashing blades of palm-leaves. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt On the western side fell only the sough of the breeze in the pine. Foes The weather was growing very cold, a storm was coming up, and the wind soughed and whined dismally around the eaves. Jacqueline of Golden River Even in the brilliant morning sunlight the vessel, soughing, creaking, groaning, as it moved slouchily over the waters impressed her as the shape of terror. Dan Merrithew Not a sound, save the soughing of the wind, was heard within God’s peaceful acre, for over the wrecks of Time Silence lay motionless in the arms of Death. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Mingling with the crackling of the flames there was a noise as of the soughing of the wind in the pine forests. The Voice of the People When 'e throwed it down, it walloped, an' cried, an' soughed,—an' its poor eyes blinded wi' blood! Stories of Mystery But there was no sound from within, except the soughing which one hears in a tunnel; and satisfied at last that I had been the victim of an over-wrought imagination, I pursued my course. Jacqueline of Golden River Not a sough of wind comes moaning; the same outline, high and bare, As in pleasant days of summer, rises in the murky air. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 At last, there came a sough of a great battle having been fought somewhere in the west country, which had decided the fate of the opposing parties. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827 And now the storms began in earnest, and went soughing through the trees in the avenue, and whistling in the rigging of the vessels that were laid up for the winter. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel The Cumberland, and the Tennessee, the Missouri, the Arkansas, the Red, the Tombigbee, and the Chattahoochee were stirred by the churning wheels, and over-their forests floated the mournful sough of the high-pressure exhaust. American Merchant Ships and Sailors A double row of beech-trees saluted me, as I passed, with a rich shower of wet leaves, and shook their bare arms, growling as the loud sough of the wind went through their decayed branches. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Unaltered alone was the ceaseless thud, the chopping, pounding of the machinery, the long soughing of the power-engine. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls He thinks he hears a new noise--a great sough--the pouring of waters. David Lockwin—The People's Idol "It is a south wind, is it not, Gabriel?" said the Consul, as he listened to the sough of the wind through the trees. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel It has often at the end the sound of f, as laugh; whence laughter retains the same sound in the middle; cough, trough, sough, tough, enough, slough. A Grammar of the English Tongue Soon a low murmur, like the distant sough of the wind, gradually approached. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The sailor's jersey and trousers were old and torn, and the sea-water still soughed loudly in his heavy boots with each step. The Wings of the Morning And so, walking home along the rocky shore, they talked to the accompaniment of lapping waves upon the shore and soughing spruce trees in the forest. Bobby of the Labrador How dark it was growing! how weirdly soughed the wind among the pine tops! how bodingly the thunder growled afar! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 The sough of the wind in the trees may have only a slight influence on character, but it is a vital influence. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People It was a wet spring day, with dark clouds hanging low over the heath, a cold wind cheeping, soughing, sighing; and Dale's face was darker and sadder than the day. The Devil's Garden It was still striking twelve: the last echo of the last chime trembled away on a faint, fresh sough of wind. Nightfall While we breathe, we will breathe the breath o' Freedom! as it soughs down the Tweed, between the heathery hills o' our ain auld country! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. At other times he would be only a sough in the night wind. Stories of the Border Marches The pines surrounding the hotel shot up weirdly against the midnight sky, soughing with a low murmur, like the moan of primeval nature. The Inner Shrine But we must 'keep a calm sough' on that matter for the present—so far, at least, Dr. Hamilton and I have determined—in order to prevent the Bruces from getting wind of it. A Noble Life Tensely he listens and hears in the soughing wind a response to his cries of desire. Là-bas The trees no longer sighed and moaned with the wind; on the stiffening firs lay beads of frozen snow, and the wind as it passed through them soughed. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance And as they went along, the garden became gradually graver, more discreet; the soughing of the branches died away, the streams hushed their plashing waters, the birds, the beasts, and the insects fell into silence. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Not a living thing was to be seen or a sound to be heard, except the soughing of the wind and the trickling of a burn down the hillside. The Pilots of Pomona The woods had never appeared so empty; the soughing of the pines had never sounded so dreary. Gordon Keith And at last, sick and wretched, he sat down on a seat upon the deserted parade under the stars, close to the soughing of the invisible sea below.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through The beach was strewn with scoria and cinders; in dolorous soughs, a chill wind blew; wails issued from the caves; and yellow, spooming surges, lashed the moaning strand. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The mysterious voice died away; no sign of the corpse was now seen; and mute with amaze, the company long listed to the low moan of the billows and the sad sough of the breeze. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Darkness came on, and still never a boat could I see, never a sound could I hear but the ceaseless swish of the snow and the soughing of the wind. The Pilots of Pomona There was silence within, and without the empty church only the whistling sough of the snowdrift. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 It was no rush of air, sending life tingling in the blood made brilliant with carmine of oxidation, but the dense, mephitic sough of the thick wool of water. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 The wind blew straight into his face and soughed in his collar; and it seemed as though it were whispering to him all these thoughts, bringing them from the broad white plain . The Bishop and Other Stories Gazing around on the flying shadows driven by the swift wind, and listening to the quivering sough amid the shaken trees, I have been led far and near into realms of strange speculation. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour The bough of a resinous hemlock, soughing gently, touched his arm, and his hold on the shingles relaxed. The Rim of the Desert The wind rose and soughed drearily through the rhododendrons and the pines; and Kiramat Ali, the pipe-bearer, shivered audibly as he drew his long cloth uniform around him. Mr. Isaacs Still thirteen years: 'tis autumn now On field and hill, in heart and brain; The naked trees at evening sough; The leaf to the forsaken bough Sighs not,—'Auf wiedersehen!' The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The wind, too, penetrated the building through many cracks and crannies, so that there was a constant sighing and soughing in the big dreary rooms, which had a most eerie and melancholy effect. The Firm of Girdlestone The black sough of wind from it lifted her hair, and dampened her forehead. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 From without came the soughing of a bitter east wind that blew in biting gusts across the Clyde. The Thirsty Sword And the sounds come not so much from the birds, or the soughing of the branches; they seem to come from the swamp life underneath the branches, at the roots of trees. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories “When ’e throwed it down, it walloped, an’ cried, an’ soughed,—an’ its poor eyes blinded wi’ blood! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 Not a breath of air was stirring, but the trees that grew round the burying-ground waved and soughed, and some withered leaves were swirled round and round, as if by the wind. Marriage She was talking as she struggled, still under the hoarse and frantic whisper, but her breath coming in long soughs. The Vertical City It was a dark night, with the glimmer of the stars only, and a melancholy night-wind was soughing through the scattered woods that spread around. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 He was two-thirds of the way toward the point where he expected to find Longstreet when he heard the sough of a hoof in the mud behind him. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand We rode awhile in sober thought, hearing only a sough of the wind above and the rustling hoof-beat of our horses in the rich harvest of the autumn woods. D'Ri and I A cold breeze from the sea swept across the mountain-top, soughing mournfully through the pines as it passed, and intensifying the loneliness and silence of the white wintry landscape. Tent Life in Siberia From empty spaces, a soughing tumult leaped forth; and on the instant a furious gust of fine, cutting particles whirled all about, thicker than driven snow in a northern blizzard. The Flying Legion Hardly could she distinguish it from the soughing of the wind in the trees. Mistress Penwick The smell of pine was thick and fragrant; the sound of wind was sweet and soughing. Tales of lonely trails And as he did so, I heard the steady sough of talk among the people rise mutteringly in a low growl of anger and contempt. Red Axe List to the lark's song in the heavens, the wind soughing in the trees, the whispering of the leaves. A Tramp's Sketches Here on the hills the sky hung low overhead, and the wind sweeping chill and drear across the upland was full of a melancholy soughing. The Castle Inn It was as still as it was dark, and though there was a cold wind blowing up the hill-face, the rustle of grass, the soughing of the boughs that should have accompanied it, were absent. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Next day at dawn the forest was full of the soughing of wind in the pines—a wind that presaged storm. Tales of lonely trails There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side. Red Axe It was like the first gentle whispering of an approaching wind, the soughing of a breath among the pines at the top of the chasm. The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds From far away the soughing of the breeze swept towards him, and in a moment all the twigs about him were quivering and rustling and the boughs creaking with a gust of wind. Love and Mr. Lewisham Only the quick throb of the engines and the sough of the waves were audible. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 The wind soughed in the lofty pine tops, but not a breeze reached down to this sheltered nook. Tales of lonely trails Her voice was soft and even, with the same sough in it as of the wind among poplar-trees which I had heard in the rustle of her silken dress as she came up the stair. Red Axe The breeze had freshened a little, and the whole air was filled with the rustle and sough of the leaves. The Refugees And now the whole forest moaned and soughed under the sweep of the wind. The Sky Line of Spruce And the soughing of the winds in the trees has given place to the clang of the bounding trolley. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life With abatement of breath I listened, but heard nothing except the mournful sough of the pines. Tales of lonely trails A sough of angry whispering filled the room, rising presently into a roar of indignation. Red Axe The wind soughed in the sails and sang in the rigging, and the water flew past the Celestine and bubbled away behind her in a seething curve of foam. The Happy Venture The sough of war and invasion flew over the land at this time, like a great whirlwind; and the hearts of men died within their persons with fear and trembling. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Now the wind goes soughing wild O'er the whistling Earth; And we front a feeble flame, Sitting round the hearth! The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens This golden-green forest, barred with sunlight, canopied by the blue sky, and melodious with its soughing moan of wind, absolutely filled me with content and happiness. Tales of lonely trails If you hear the wind soughing, denotes that you will wander in estrangement from one whose life is empty without you. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition He listened; but he heard no sound other than the soughing of the wind through leafy branches, the hoarse cries of birds, and the chattering of monkeys. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere—the sweet restful silence of nature. The White Company Hear I not a dreamy echo, soughing through the rafters of the tree; Like a sound of stormy rivers, or the ravings of a restless sea? The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Beneath the thousands of padded feet the forest gave forth no greater sound than might have been produced by the increased soughing of a stronger breeze through the leafy branches of the trees. Son of Tarzan The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. The Book of Tea Seven mighty kings went out the minstrel man to find: And all they found was a dead cyprus soughing in the wind. Twilight Stories There was an utter stillness, save for the sharp breathing of the Lady Tiphaine and for the gentle soughing of the wind outside, which wafted to their ears the distant call upon a swine-herd's horn. The White Company "Thou hast tarried long, my lover," she said in a low sweet voice that was the distant note of aeolian harp, or summer zephyr soughing through the pines. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 But, as I say, I've got to keep a quiet sough, for the world is gettin' socialism now like the measles. Mr. Standfast I must have lots of moonlight and several stormy sunsets, and the wind soughing in the branches. Jean of the Lazy A A thin spatter of rain tinkled on the glass with each fresh sough of the gale, drowning for the instant the dull gurgle and drip from the eaves. Tales of Terror and Mystery He heard the soft thump of hoofs, the sough of wind in the cactus—then no more. Desert Gold The vision changed, and he sat by a seacoal fire in chambers that once had echoed the glad voices of those whose graves were 'mid the soughing pines. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 His voice rose very shrill and mad against the regular deep soughing of the swell coiling heavily about the outer face of the sea-wall. To-morrow She stood still to meditate, and fancied that between the soughing of the wind she heard shuffling footsteps on the leaves heavier than those of rabbits or hares. The Woodlanders There was no response, save the soughing of the wind through the swaying treetops. The House Behind the Cedars Like the soughing of the storm above the whimper of the tortured leaves the stentorian snorings of two of the sleepers resounded above the noise of the mosquitoes. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise A thin spatter of rain tinkled on the glass with each fresh sough of the gale, drowning for the instant the dull gurgle and drip from the eves. Round the Red Lamp The wind soughed with gloomy and increasing menace, a sudden light flared across the southern sky followed by the reverberation of distant thunder. The Oakdale Affair There was a long pause, in which not a breath was heard from any man, and the soughing of the tree-tops above and the rushing of the rapids below were the only sounds. The Burial of the Guns The night was dark and very still, save for the melancholy soughing of the wind among the spars. The Captain of the Polestar Presently I became aware of a drowsy breathing sound, the soughing of the sea upon the beach. The Island of Doctor Moreau The lamp flames waved, the Walk trees soughed, a few loungers stood about with their hands in their pockets. The Mayor of Casterbridge The wind soughed sadly in the bare tree-tops, somewhere in the distance a dog barked hoarsely, insistently; otherwise not a sound was to be heard. The Yellow Streak The sough of the wind overhead among the almost naked branches might well have warned Indians and renegades that Deathwind was on the trail! The Last Trail A cold north wind soughed wearily through the fir tops. The Long Labrador Trail Every sound is fraught with the same mysterious assurance of health, as well now the creaking of the boughs in January, as the soft sough of the wind in July. Excursions But the wind was blowing into that quarter whence they had come, and he could hear naught save the soughing in the trees, together with an occasional burst of rude rustic laughter from the tap-room. The Black Bag They heard the dripping of the rain, the soughing of the wind, but no sound of human kind came to their ears. The Yellow Streak "Your hour is at hand, proud king!" she murmured; and her voice sounded through the hail like the soughing of the wintry wind among the pines. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age After this, the pleasant months went by with nothing but Andrew's and Jamie's visits to mark them, and, every now and then, a sough of sorrow from the big house of Braelands. A Knight of the Nets Then, like the gentle soughing of the evening breeze among forest trees, all sound died away, and in the snap of a finger, all were asleep again. Welsh Fairy Tales The chair in which you sit once swayed in the forest midst the soughing winds. A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece More than four times as many Union dead lie under the solemn soughing pines about that forlorn little village in southern Georgia, than mark the course of Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy The park seemed very dark, very dreary; a searching breeze was sweeping inland from the Sound, soughing sadly in the tree-tops; a chill humidity permeated the air, precursor of rain. The Brass Bowl So in 'The Dying Swan', And the wavy swell of the soughing reeds. The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson A breath of the north wind soughed like a lament through the oak overhanging the tiny chapel of Santa Maria della Febbre. The Saint The wind soughed through the naked tree-tops; the mist rose and the world thinned away in a bluey haze; this all vanished and slowly it became dark black night. The Path of Life |
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