单词 | soughing |
例句 | There was only the soughing wind and his and Calvin’s footsteps. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 wind blew harder, soughing in the treetops. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 There was no other sound, except the soughing of the breeze through the tree-tops. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z A wind soughing in the roses, no, a yellow phosphorescence. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 How I enjoyed these Pentland rambles, alone in the rain and the soughing winds! Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z He felt the fanning of the wind, heard, dimly, its uneasy soughing. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It seemed to come from a great distance, like the soughing of the wind in the trees, sad, mysterious, supernatural. Thirty 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The lightning was decreasing perceptibly, while the occasional peals of thunder were scarcely audible above the soughing of the wind. The Silent Barrier 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 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 Winds scented with oil of sagebrush and aroma of pines come soughing through the juniper hills. Through Our Unknown Southwest 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 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 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 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 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 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 It was midnight, brightly starlit, and silent save for the low soughing of the waves upon the shore. The Count's Chauffeur 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 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 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 Through the amplifier came the muted roar of the breakers and the low soughing of the wind. Made in Tanganyika 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 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 Her voice died away in the soughing of the wind. A Bride of the Plains 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 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 A light breeze swept up the river, soughing through the thick woods on the nearer bank. 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 Right across the moors came the steady westerly wind, sighing and soughing, touching their cheeks with its fresh fingers. Colorado Jim 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Was that a long-drawn sighing breath he heard, or only the wind soughing through the waving tassels overhead? Marcia Schuyler 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 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 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 trees are nearly naked: a short, sad, consumptive wind is soughing through them. Molly Bawn 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 There was the sound of a soughing wind as the crowd drew its breath. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs She could hear it soughing gently through the branches of the live oaks. The Big-Town Round-Up 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Tensely he listens and hears in the soughing wind a response to his cries of desire. Là-bas 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 bough of a resinous hemlock, soughing gently, touched his arm, and his hold on the shingles relaxed. The Rim of the Desert 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 I must have lots of moonlight and several stormy sunsets, and the wind soughing in the branches. Jean of the Lazy A 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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 I only know that his little grave stands out there while the gloaming gloams and the soughing winds are soughing. Remarks And from the depths of the room it is as though, when they are heard, there passed lovely waves of sound through the soft air, free winging birds, and the moist soughing of the wind. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Through the rain and the soughing of wheels in the mud rolled their battle songs, sung with all the spirit and fire of youth. The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis A quiet, warm snowfall came on, and there was a soughing in the air. Wanderers The two last humans in the world could even catch the flick of ivory fangs, the lolling wet redness of tongues--could hear the soughing breath through those infernal jaws. Darkness and Dawn Soon after that, I noticed that I was soughing through the trees also, and I am really no slouch of a sougher, either, when I get started. Remarks There was a pause as she asked the dreadful question—a pause in which the beating of the autumnal rain upon the glass, the soughing of the autumnal gale sounded preternaturally loud. A Terrible Secret At length there came an end, and the soughing of wings was silent for ever; no more souls went downwards, and none came up from the earths. Dawn There is nothing more glorious than the soughing of the woods. Wanderers The sail crumpled, crackled and slid down; and now under a bare pole the boat cradled slowly ahead transversely across the foam-streaked current that ran swiftly soughing toward the dim vapor-swirls away to the northeast. Darkness and Dawn But it was only Lanpher and the stranger riding out of a belt of pines whose deep and lusty soughing had drowned the noise of their approach. The Heart of the Range She played so softly that the shrill whistling of the wind around the gables, the heavy soughing of the trees, was plainly audible above it. A Terrible Secret Passing through some pine woods I heard the soughing of the tree-tops. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch The soughing in the air grew stronger; it was not snow that was falling now, but rain. Wanderers So close, that Stern could hear the soughing breath between those hideous lips and see the twitching of the wrinkled lid over the black, glittering eye that blinked as you have often seen a chimpanzee's. Darkness and Dawn Everything was quiet roundabout, only the night wind was soughing in the old pine-trees. Maezli A Story of the Swiss Valleys Nothing to be seen but the vague tossing of the trees, nothing to be heard but the soughing of the wind, nothing to be felt but the fast and still faster falling of the rain. A Terrible Secret Yet, when Mrs. Connors opened the door of her pink-brocaded sitting-room, her spirit rose with the soughing rise of the elevator, and Romance—hardy fellow—showed himself within a murky hotel corridor. Gaslight Sonatas But have we not had the world to look upon each day, and the soughing of the woods to hear? Wanderers The place was chilly, and the wind, soughing in through the broken glass, produced an eerie note. The House on the Borderland In its neighborhood not a sound could be heard except the twittering of the birds and the soughing of the old pine-trees. Maezli A Story of the Swiss Valleys There is a pause—the firelight flickers, they hear the rain lashing the windows, the soughing of the gale in the trees. A Terrible Secret Overhead he heard the soughing of the pines, and around him the steady tramp of feet too tired to lift themselves from out the heavy mud. The Battle Ground And so I sit once more, listening to the soughing of the woods. Wanderers The sounds of the wind were dismal, soughing and moaning as all mountain winds do, and made me think of the Bogy-man and other things. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 The despairing plaints continued to mingle with the soughing of the wind, but they found Nature and man alike deaf; God had hidden himself and heard not. The Social Cancer But from the black forest wall there came the soughing of the wind and the nocturnal rustle of things unknown. Over Prairie Trails He heard again the cloud burst overhead, the soughing of the pines and the crackling of dried branches as they came drifting down through interlacing boughs. The Battle Ground Then the soughing of earth and sky again. Wanderers By the fireplace sat the Tamal, Lone survivor of her people— Sat and listened to the patter Of the raindrops on the shingles, To the soughing of the west-wind In the branches of the redwoods. The Legends of San Francisco Then all was still, except the roar of the burning church and the solemn soughing of the pines, as the rising west wind rustled their branches. Bricks Without Straw A large bluff of poplars rustled, the wind soughing through the stems with a wailing note. Over Prairie Trails While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet. Travels in West Africa It rained and rained that night, and there was a soughing all through the trees outside. Wanderers Through the absolute silence around there came the sound as of a gentle flutter, the current of cold air, mayhap, sighing through the ill-fitting shutters, or the soft, weird soughing made by unseen things. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel The branches of casuarina trees behind me swayed lightly, incessantly, reminding me of the soughing of fir trees at home. Lord Jim I listened intently—no sound of man or beast, no soughing of wind in stems or rustling of the very last leaves that were now fast falling... Over Prairie Trails The heat was intense; but there was a low soughing wind which seemed to moan among the trees without moving them. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil I had stood there long up on the wooded hillside, listening to the soughing of earth and sky, and there was nothing else to hear. Wanderers The silence became all the more marked after a while, because the rain ceased its monotonous pattering and the soughing of the wind was stilled. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Here is the spontaneous grace and symmetry of a forest tree, or a soughing mass of foliage. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The soughing of the night wind in the evergreens was mournful. Gold of the Gods The soughing of the night wind in the evergreens, mournful at best, was doubly so now. The Dream Doctor There is a faint soughing of the wind in the forest behind; close up to the house are foliage trees, and the aspens rustle like silk. Wanderers You can hear the wind soughing through them and the branches creaking a little and rubbing, and a still kind of light all around. Uncle William: the man who was shif'less On this side the edge of the forest was not far away, for he could hear the soughing of the wind in the treetops. God's Country—And the Woman One by one, the men about Leif dropped off, snoring; and he heeded it no more than he did the soughing of the wind through the grove. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days I heard the wind soughing—the mules and horses stamping—the murmur of men's voices. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders On that very spot where we camped that night, where we heard nothing but the wind soughing amongst the trees, and the rushing of the river, now stands the great city of Rochester. Roughing It in the Bush It was in a lull of the soughing wind. Denzil Quarrier He rose from the bench and paced up and down the terrace, listening to the faint soughing of the dark chestnut leaves and looking at the cool, silvery gleam of the river between the tree-boles. Herb of Grace Suddenly, without apparent cause, there rose above the murmurs of the street an ominous sound, like that of a fierce wind soughing through a forest of pines. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn A troubled soughing in the breeze And the sky overhead Let yourself feel; and shadeful trees, Ripe corn, and apples red, Read as things barren and distasteful While we are separated! Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses Only far above me I heard a continual soughing, as though winged souls passed to and fro. Red Eve "Did ye hear onythin'?" he roared above the muffled soughing of the wind. Bob, Son of Battle There was no sound but the faint soughing of the wind over the pines below him. The Story of a Mine The shrill cry of a loon, like the cry of a child in pain, sifted down the ravine from the lake above and died away among the pines soughing in the night- wind. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn A sudden draught blew her hair about, and from within, Mr. Treffry's cough mingled with the soughing of the wind; the sky was fast blackening. Villa Rubein, and other stories The silence that, save for the soughing sound for which they could not account, was intense, oppressed them, as also did the heat. Red Eve It was like the swaying and shaking, and rustling and soughing, in a summer gale, of a million leaves and branches in the depth of the primeval forest. The Hungry Stones and Other Stories The wind in there was sighing, soughing, driving the dark boughs, tearing off the leaves, little black wet shapes that came whirling at her face. Beyond In the gusts of wind I heard the convicts calling to each other far away, and then a roll of thunder would cover the soughing and rustling of the trees. A Set of Six Yet, oh how that steppe, bathed in golden sunshine, draws one to itself and its smooth desolation of sweet, dry grasses as the parched, fragrant expanse rustles under the soughing wind! Through Russia And yet I could see nothing of which to be afraid, and hear nothing save that soughing of invisible wings whereof I have spoken. Red Eve Out of doors, the western wind had again risen; and, notwithstanding its deep distant soughing, the soft regular patter of the eaves-droppings could be heard as they dripped from the roof. An Iceland Fisherman The night noises seemed far removed and impersonal and the soughing of the wind in the trees was gently soothing. Tarzan the Terrible A faint land-breeze was blowing, a melancholy soughing came from the edge of the forest only a few hundred yards back, sullen, black, impenetrable. A Millionaire of Yesterday She laughed in the slow, indolent way she had, taking the straw hat from her dark head to catch better the faint breath of wind that was soughing across the plains. Bucky O'Connor He rowed away, and for a while the three whom he had left behind heard the soughing of the innumerable wings that went ever with him, after which came silence. Red Eve Only the south wind lingered on, soughing gently in the drowsy reeds, whispering among the branches of the cedars, and gently stirring the tender corollas of the sleeping snowdrops. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel But she listened to that cry as to a noise, the soughing of the wind in the tree-tops, or the lowing of the cow on the back of which she climbed. Adieu I tried to think it was the wind soughing through the pines, but am afraid I didn't succeed very well. The Spirit of the Border Another pause followed; the silence was weird—only the cracking of the fire was heard, and the mournful soughing of the wind in the pines. Vanished Arizona No one had a mind to speak, and the mournful soughing of the wind in the pine-trees seemed to check the words on every lip. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel His voice died away, merged in the soughing of the wind, drowned by the clang of metal, of horses snorting, of men living and breathing. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel |
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