Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28280.14he concluded her unfinished sentence quickly, and something like hope sounded in his voice.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36480.14He had just finished speaking in that broad, emphatic tone that was meant to strike home. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_640.10he completed her sentence, with a bitter sigh.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15590.10"Go on; you have begun the sentence, and I depend upon hearing the end."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28430.09The lord of the manor completed her sentence in a low voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18950.09"Before one has quite finished a sentence the answer is plainly ready on your lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9670.08For ever and ever, amen 1" The physician completed the sentence of the lips that were silent forever; and then, with a gentle touch, he closed her eyes.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_171210.29The general appeared to be affected by a nervous tremor, which prevented his answering for some moments; then, overcoming his manifest repugnance, he pronounced the required oath, but in so low a tone as to be scarcely audible to the majority of the members, who insisted on his repeating it clearly and distinctly, which he did.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_172110.29The general appeared to be affected by a nervous tremor, which prevented his answering for some moments; then, overcoming his manifest repugnance, he pronounced the required oath, but in so low a tone as to be scarcely audible to the majority of the members, who insisted on his repeating it clearly and distinctly, which he did.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_31020.17"Didst pronounce his sentence?"
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_9920.16From that dark distant corner I heard a sigh, ending in a nervous catching of the breath, and then a muttered word unpleasantly like an oath, as Forrester sprang to his feet.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_149030.16It was, and I regret to add that Judge Robinson's concluding sentences raised him greatly in the opinion of the miners.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_78280.15If the ball ends (as I believe it will) in new mortifications for Mercy--do what they may, I defy them to mortify _me_--I have only to say the word by telegraph, and we shall catch the ship at Plymouth.
Collins_Armadale_141300.15Before I could speak again--before Armadale could add another word--he finished his friend's uncompleted sentence, in a tone that I now heard, and with a look that I now saw, for the first time.
Harland_Alone_45970.15"The challenge came from my principal," answered Watson, with a brazen look.
Bronte_Villette_36220.15"I am not quite sure what my nervous system is, but I was dreadfully low-spirited."
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_67560.15I was struck down by low fever, and sentence was pronounced on me by my fellow-lodgers: 'Ah, poor thing, _her_ troubles will soon be at an end!'
Harland_At_Last_2020.14Catching some of thin energetic sentence, Mabel looked over her shoulder.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_2780.14Before our first sentences were concluded, Forrester had nerved himself to the effort of rising, and turned to go.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_9200.14Ring as often as it might, the sound always smote upon her nervous system rudely and suddenly.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_29300.12Well, however, we could come no nearer for fear of disturbing them; so we resolved to see an end of this piece of still conversation, and it spoke loud enough to us without the help of voice.
Harris_Rutledge_4460.12I dared not look toward the end of the hall that I had learned so much to dread; but starting forward and leaning over the balusters I called "Kitty," in a voice that would fain have been stentorian, but was in actual fact a whisper.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_25710.12When her husband talked in long sentences, as he was not unfrequently given to do, lady Margaret, even when their sequences were not very clear, seldom interrupted him: she had learned that she gained more by letting him talk on; for however circuitous the route he might take, he never forgot where he was going.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_33460.12He ventured in a constrained voice as consolation: "That he never had much faith in stocks--No, he had no employment for ladies in connection with his store.
Harland_Jessamine_2660.12Up to this sentence the story was a quiet recitative he might have learned by rote, and uttered at the bidding of one he felt had a right to hear it.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_20620.12I have pronounced sentence--there is no more to say."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_149370.11The more was Robinson surprised when, full an hour before dinner-time, this mighty noise all of a sudden became feebler and feebler, and presently human cries of a strange character made their way to his ear through the wooden thunder.
Bronte_Shirley_8780.11Even when utilitarians sit in judgment on him, and pronounce him and his art useless, he hears the sentence with such a hard derision, such a broad, deep, comprehensive, and merciless contempt of the unhappy Pharisees who pronounce it, that he is rather to be chidden than condoled with.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_13470.11"But it gets so dreadfully joggled in such a place as this!
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_11560.11cried Faith, distressfully.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_85630.11she murmured, and then was too overcome to speak for a little while.
Warner_Queechy_141620.11"I don't know," said Fleda faltering a little,--"he was not--very,--but a few weeks ago--" Her eye explained the broken sentences which there in the neighbourhood of other ears she dared not finish.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_1270.10Zalika learned to know me in our parting hour.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_102070.10I have wanted to see them so much--to--" No, her voice breaks, she cannot finish the sentence.
Evans_Beulah_83080.10A smothered sigh concluded the sentence.
Harland_Alone_73650.10While her ears were alert to every sentence uttered around her, and she was quaking at the least approach to a mention of the absentee, she aimed to monopolize Mr. Copeland's sense and thoughts.
Collins_No_Name_58080.10"I am suffering, as you see, from a complaint in the eyes," replied Magdalen, steadily keeping her profile toward the window, and carefully pitching her voice to the tone of Miss Garth's.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_23290.10Faith's voice trembled with earnestness as she finished.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_118170.10And at this precise point in his sentence, without the least warning, Mr.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_5700.10cried the cook, with a look of ineffable scorn, as he concluded.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231090.10he murmured in a low voice, as he concluded his sentence.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_172060.10He had reached his two concluding sentences when Anne spoke to him.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_8560.10Learn another piece like that, and I 'll come and hear you speak it.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_2690.10A dreadfully nervous kind of man he was, walked on tiptoe, started at sudden noises, was distressed when he heard a whisper, had a quick, suspicious look, and was always saying, "Hush?"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_107300.09B.--All this not in English, but in thieve's cant, with an oath or a nasty expression at every third word.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_21160.09Guy read his sentence instantly--a sentence from which there was no appeal.
Harland_Alone_64620.09"He can take care of himself--" "Having nearly arrived at years of discretion;" he concluded the sentence.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_12010.09The Ten-----" The voice died out in a whisper; the sentence was never finished.
Bronte_Villette_33660.09My reflections closed in an audibly pronounced word, "Graham!"
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_42970.09and then he made a step forward, looked boldly and sternly around him, and spoke, in a rich, musical voice, the following brief, though emphatic words: "Ye ask me if I could say aught why sentence of death should not be pronounced.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_35280.09'Twas the first time Mabel had heard that name since the night when her mother-in-law had rang it in her ears, and now she started so quickly, that the offending cough could not be forced back, and the coughing fit which followed was so violent that John Jr., as he held the bowl to her quivering lips, saw that what she had raised was streaked with blood.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_6580.09Her firm, emphatic utterance was heard to the farthest end of the hall.
Collins_No_Name_62550.09She suddenly raised herself on tiptoe and whispered the next words in Magdalen's ear.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_56300.09He rose to his feet as he spoke those words, and emphasized them under his breath with an oath.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_22900.09"At the first mention of the bad news, he turned deadly pale, but he listened in silence without answering a syllable, and when I gave him a few words of counsel and encouragement, feeling sure that it would end in a consultation, he sent me away.
Harland_Jessamine_29200.09She said the concluding words so indistinctly that Orrin did not catch their purport, or his rejoinder would have been different and less prompt.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_80920.09So, in short, incoherent, disconnected sentences, this incomprehensible letter began and ended.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37460.17"N o stain has fallen upon your family, nor has anything occurred to elevate my despised position,—it is my personal influence alone which has efl‘ected this change in you; it would be rash and unjustifiable in me to take advantage of the moment when, hushing with determina- tion the voice of your firmest convictions, you give car only to tl‘e voice of love.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42180.16"Meta von Ilirschsprung was my mother," she said in a low melodious voice, with apparent conr posure, although she put down the cup which began to tremble in her hand.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10500.16Herr von Oliveiral_" cried his Excellency with a hoarse laugh,—" do you really venture so far in mystifying your eager listeners as to adduce a Written attestation of your charming little tale ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20140.15Use struck in In her resolute way: " I wish to speak to Herr Claudius.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28420.13He had taught me "this wisdom," as Herr Claudius called it, with a slightly bitter intonation.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6910.10cried the baroness in a weak voice, which nevertheless sounded harsh and cold, as she pointed to a lounge near her, and motioned to Elizabeth, who courtesied politely, to sit down.

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_12630.49Villefort, impassive as he was, was struck with this coincidence; and the tremulous voice of Dantes, surprised in the midst of his happiness, struck a sympathetic chord in his own bosom -- he also was on the point of being married, and he was summoned from his own happiness to destroy that of another.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_12570.46Villefort, impassive as he was, was struck with this coincidence; and the tremulous voice of Dantes, surprised in the midst of his happiness, struck a sympathetic chord in his own bosom--he also was on the point of being married, and he was summoned from his own happiness to destroy that of another.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_40330.15A slightly shamefaced expression struck her.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_220400.14said Cavalcanti, who was quite confounded at the metallic sound of these golden words.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_221510.14said Cavalcanti, who was quite confounded at the metallic sound of these golden words.
Collins_Armadale_5520.14The portrait at once struck me--I can't say why, I can't say how--as nothing of the kind had ever struck me before.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_3270.13"You would mean it," he retorted, "if you knew what lip-distorting and ear-distracting work it is practising this same trombone."
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_31040.12"One more who has thrust aside happiness," he murmurs, bitterly, adding on the instant, "If we could only recognize our happiness at the right time!
Disraeli_Lothair_27870.11"We have struck him down once," said Mirandola.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_8870.11"I am sorry to disturb you, Herr von Guntram," he said, in a loud voice, "but I am forced to do so by a very unfortunate misunderstanding, which appears to be wide-spread.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_107480.11Marie was struck dumb, but said nothing.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_40420.11I forget what he said or did next; but by-and-by there was a colloquy in a whisper between him and some person unseen, and they say that this unseen whisper was very sweet, and something like the chords of a harp, only low and very articulate.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_5220.11As he spoke the last words his voice became fainter and fainter, and at last was lost in a hiccup; partly, as it seemed, from emotion, and partly from bodily suffering.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_5960.10I remember well when he had to go away to town after his mother's death, how he clung to me and cried bitterly, so that they could not get him away, though Herr Berkow was begging, and coaxing, and promising him everything in the world.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_32050.10"I speak but for your happiness, Lilla;" his voice was somewhat softened.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_10590.10During this conversation, held in a very low tone, and in a foreign tongue, the Schoolmaster said to the Chouette, looking at Tom and Sarah, "The swell has shelled out a 'bull' to the ogress.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_71640.08At the lower half an unanimous, involuntary cheer; for among our county families there were few so warmly respected as the Oldtowers.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_510.06Winsted?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_185250.06have I said to her.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_97910.06'I'm not so sure of that.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_122420.06"I will go with you.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42820.09The sound of my own voice dispelled the mist in my mind, and I shuddered at the falsehood of my words.

Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_82490.14He was silent for some moments; then, collecting himself, and looking fixedly at Guy, he said, in his own steady voice, though very feeble,-- 'I suppose, humanly speaking, it is an even chance between life and death?'
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_23270.14Guy was passing the scene with a careless side-glance when the accent of the suppliant caught his ear--not French, though she spoke the language perfectly.
Lewald_Hulda_18060.13He went to the piano to try and recall the melody, when suddenly he thought he heard the sound of a post-horn.
Evans_Infelice_23230.13With a quick unsteady motion Regina grasped and drained a goblet of iced-water, and after a little while the mist rolled away, and she heard once more the voices that had never for an instant ceased their utterances.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_33330.12It was perfectly dark in the little bedroom, and had been so a good while, when Ellen was aroused by some noise, and then a rough voice she knew very well.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_69090.12she whispered, "dreadful as it may seem to you, the words of that drunken brute there are nearer the language of my heart than those of your sweet hymn.
Evans_Infelice_14190.12Untying the cane, she raised it in the air, and threw it with all the force she could command into the middle of the water.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_36200.12CHAPTER XX DESOLATION Not only did Edith's bitter cry startle poor Zell, coming to her ear as a despairing recall from the battlements of heaven might have sounded to a falling angel, but Arden Lacey was as thoroughly aroused from his painful revery as if shaken by a giant hand.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_69680.12I could recall his rapid glance; the quick and hurried motion of his hand; his short and thick utterance, as words of command fell from his lips; and his smile, as he heard some intelligence with pleasure.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_46740.12Wallace looked on him with penetrating tenderness; his heart was suddenly wrung by a recollection, which the words of Edwin had recalled.
Broughton_Nancy_60100.12speaking with a heavy emphasis, and looking persistently at me, while the anger of his eyes is dashed and crossed by a miserable entreaty.
Broughton_Nancy_32840.12"Yes," say I, lachrymosely; "is not it _dreadful?_ I never was so miserable in my life; I do not think I _ever_ was by myself for a _whole_ night before, and"--(lowering my voice to a nervous whisper)-- "they tell me there is a ghost somewhere about.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_38250.11I"--here his voice grew slightly unsteady--"I shall often hear from him and of his married life,--we are faithful correspondents,--and sometimes, perhaps, you will allow me to recall myself to your memory."
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_119940.11It was an awful and heart-breaking pause, for the voice which in all scenes of weal or woe had ever mingled sweetly with theirs, was silent.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_127440.11They still laugh at them in France, and yet always wear them, for all that."
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_8950.11At the word he sprung from the cavern's mouth, and had already reached the topmost cliff when the piteous cries of Halbert penetrated his ear; they recalled him to recollection, and returning to his servant, he tried to soothe his fear, and spoke in a composed though determined tone.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_320010.10Angel is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_82060.10For seven years, didn't I study every look and motion, and only live and breathe to please him?
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_30320.10I listened, and what was my astonishment to hear that they spoke in French.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_20930.10Her voice had so sad a ring in it that he perceived at once that he had hurt her.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_19810.10Mrs. Livingstone was now not only red and fidgety but very angry, and, in an elevated tone of voice, she said, "I s'pose it's Nellie Douglass you mean, but if you knew all of her that I do, I reckon----" Here she paused, insinuating that she could tell something dreadful, if she would!
Evans_Infelice_28970.09It was one o'clock before she ceased her passionate pleading for protection from those whom she believed intent upon sacrificing her, and then turning her face to the wail she became silent, only occasionally muttering rapid indistinct sentences.
Wood_East_Lynne_109340.09"I knew her by hearsay," murmured Lady Isabel, arousing to recollection.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_30330.09"He will soon recall that when he has passed fifty himself," said a deep, powerful voice.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_27320.09But what life means, Aunt Rosamond, that he does not know, and only _he_ could trust himself----' "He broke off suddenly.
Cooper_The_Prairie_3330.09If a bear crosses my path, he is soon the mere ghost of Bruin.
Bronte_Villette_26560.09I said so, with a voice as resolute in intent, as it was low, and perhaps unsteady in utterance.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_118470.09The cheering voice, that was ever music to her ears, recalled her from this devout abstraction.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_33620.09With tin horns they blasphemously affected to be angels blowing trumpets.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_52140.09No wonder that, more than once, catching the sound of her low, quiet, gentlewomanlike speech, different from any female voices here, he turned round suddenly with a glance, half-scared, half-eager, as if she had been a ghost from the grave.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_3660.09"Angel of my life," exclaimed Wallace, straining her to his heart, "I obey thee.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_1970.09"Fin," said my father, in a faint, hoarse voice,--"Fin, give me a drink.
Cooper_The_Pilot_54160.09But," he muttered in a lower and more hurried voice, "this has been like Liverpool, and-- Whitehaven--and Edinburgh, and fifty more!
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_51600.08His eyes were dim and watery; his hands were unsteady; his voice was choked and muffled with drink.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_1800.08Her voice yet, more than the proffered remedies, seemed to recall life, and after a brief interval the choking thought found words.
Harris_Rutledge_36940.08It was rather a startling recall to stern reality, when, at one end of the hall, suddenly encountering Phil, he laid a heavy hand on my partner's arm, exclaiming: "Victor, my boy, if you've any mercy on that unlucky girl, come this way.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_35680.08When the melting voice of Lady Sara, in whispers, tried to recall his attention, by a start only did he evince his recollection of not being alone.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_36460.08Just so when I recall that scene--little heed as I took at the time of them--every gesture, and look, and tone of Forrester's becomes as distinct as if he stood in the body before me now.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_11330.08"Thy voice has fallen on my ear like a sound afar off and indistinct," replied Pearson, without lifting his eyes.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_36370.06'And see it.
Whitney_We_Girls_9640.06A dozen of us are not enough, and as soon as you go beyond, there gets to be too much of it.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_35550.06D----d if I don't!"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_89940.06"Oh, this is dreadful," she said.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_89690.06"Oh, this is dreadful!
Trollope_Orley_Farm_63270.06"Yes; we know her now," he said.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_46510.06.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_168880.06it is dreadful.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_50080.06Oh, it was dreadful!"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_38450.06"Why, I don't know, it seems so dreadful!"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_7990.06Here they are."

The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_40540.15He turned towards his writing-table, when suddenly he stood rooted to the spot, and a low cry escaped his lips.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_14320.13If the creole had rendered the first strophe with languid pleasure, she put in her last words all the enthusiasm of antique love; and as if the music had been powerless to express her intense passion, she threw her guitar from her, and, half rising and extending her arms towards the door, where Jacques Ferrand stood, she repeated, in a faltering, dying tone, "Oh, come--come--come!"
Cooper_The_Prairie_5460.12She was yet speaking when a tall, half naked savage, approached the spot where they stood, and after examining the whole party as closely as the dim light permitted, for more than a minute in perfect stillness, he gave the usual salutation in the harsh and guttural tones of his own language.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_5590.12The experienced ear of Oak knew the sound he now heard to be caused by the running of the flock with great velocity.
Cooper_The_Prairie_60540.12returned the husky tones of Esther, as the wagon passed the spot where the criminal stood.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_46960.12He had stood by him so steadfastly through all the danger, helping so actively to carry out all the necessary measures, and he was the only one to whom Arthur would occasionally speak freely, passing beyond the mere instructions and encouraging speeches which were all the other officials ever heard from his lips.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_35170.12She stood with downcast eyes and compressed lips, a certain instinct of childish dignity warning her to be silent.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_34680.12They approached the spot where Arno stood concealed; a few more steps and he should hear every word that was said, for they did not suspect a listener near.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_32340.10"Only listen,--these threatening cries approach us!
Disraeli_Lothair_60990.10Yes, if I remain here long enough -- and I sometimes think I will never again quit the isle -- I shall expect some fine summer night, when there is that rich stillness which the whispering waves only render more intense, to hear a voice of music on the mountains declaring that the god Pan has returned to earth."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_12430.10repeated Jacques Ferrand, in a tone of supplication.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_4150.10The surprise in Arthur's face became a little more marked now; so far, however, he was not really roused.
Lewald_Hulda_17920.10The antique clock upon the old oak cabinet ticked audibly, marking the last moments of the dying year, as it had done for bo many of its predecessors, while without the enow was falling steadily.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_16160.09"He will have been to the Ptarmigan's Pool," said Ebbo, sending up his voice again, in hopes that the answer would sound less distant; but, instead of this, its intonations conveyed, to these adepts in mountain language, that Friedel stood in need of help.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_48230.09At a sudden turn in the road they stopped to view the scene below, and stood enjoying the stillness and beauty of the spot, when they were startled by hearing a voice, saying, "A fine landscape, certainly!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_14820.09said Jacques Ferrand, in a hoarse and broken voice, "listen!
Cooper_The_Pilot_45080.09The music had ceased by command, and nothing was now audible but the regular tread of the soldiers, with the sighs of the dying gale, interrupted occasionally by the voice of an officer, or the hum of low dialogue.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_136970.09"It is not wonderful," said Ellen in a tremulous voice, "if I----" "It is not wonderful, Ellie, nor wrong.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_18170.09"The priest stood waiting for the answer of Luscinda, who for a long time withheld it; and just as I thought she was taking out the dagger to save her honour, or struggling for words to make some declaration of the truth on my behalf, I heard her say in a faint and feeble voice, 'I will:' Don Fernando said the same, and giving her the ring they stood linked by a knot that could never be loosed.
Evans_Vashti_3180.08Once or twice during this profitless reverie she had paused to listen to a singular sound that came from a dense group of willows not far from the spot where she sat, and now it grew louder, swelling into a measured cry, as of a child in great distress.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_23130.08We heard, even among the moss, a noise of distant shoutings,--nobody shouted in that spot except our own,--and we hurried homewards.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_14940.08There was no sound of approaching footsteps--there was a general hush, and then another bang of the mallet on the ball and then a clapping of hands.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_39380.07It was a voice that stole into the heart, and kept vibrating there long hours after, like an Aeolian harp just breathed upon by a dying zephyr.
Warner_Queechy_123170.06"What does he mean?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_3730.06'I have just come away.'
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_46210.06.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_2990.06No, indeed.
Reade_White_Lies_82710.06I will baffle them all.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_98160.06He is not there."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_42330.06'How is coffee!'
Collins_The_Moonstone_97850.06"I can assign no cause.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_121650.06"Certainly not!"
Alcott_Work_23230.06Tell me what some of them mean: will you?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32000.12Then, in a lower tone, but still loud enough for me to hear, "I noticed her; I am a judge of physiognomy, and in hers I see all the faults of her class."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57410.06It was.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12570.13"I beg you, Adele, to let John speak," cried Madame, ungraeiously.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36750.10"You will always have my confidence, Helene," he broke silence at last.

Bronte_Shirley_71020.16I will not say there is courage--hundreds against tens are no proof of that quality--but" (she dropped her voice) "there is suffering and desperation enough amongst them.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_82080.16John dropped his lower, lower still.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_50210.15Not in triumph or exultation--just at this moment she felt neither--but at the awful blunder Trix had made; for Trix had made a blunder, that was clear as day, else Sir Victor Catheron had never said those words.
Collins_No_Name_82400.15Captain Wragge cautiously lowered his voice before he went on.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_108800.15Eberhard dropped the ears, and they lay upon the coverlet.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_25580.14Maud went; and as soon as the door was shut, Tom rose on his elbow, saying in a cautiously lowered voice, "Fan, does Trix paint?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_155700.14Ruby was very quick of speech and John Crumb was very slow.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_42400.14And then, like a giddy fool as I was, I needs must give them a startler--the whoop of an owl, done so exactly, as John Fry had taught me, and echoed by the roof so fearfully, that one of them dropped the tinder box; and the other caught up his gun and cocked it, at least as I judged by the sounds they made.
Wood_East_Lynne_118020.13Did you know--" Mrs. Carlyle lowered her voice--"that I have a brother in evil --in shame?"
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_37670.13More than once have I heard the muttered sentences around me which boded like this,-- "Go the pace, Harry, never flinch it!
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_163440.13No evil thought shall enter my heart, no evil word pass my lips.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_48150.13The word, which once no consideration on earth would ever have forced from her lips, was so easy to speak now that she knew herself to be beloved.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_29770.13I may tell you in confidence,"--here he dropped his voice to a low whisper,--"I may tell you, Charles Fox hates me.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_55320.13And then she thought she heard voices, as in her childhood, whispering, "Gerty!--Gerty!--poor little Gerty!"
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_54180.12"And you mean, Frank," said Bathsheba, sadly -- her voice was painfully lowered from the fulness and vivacity of the previous summer -- "that you have lost more than a hundred pounds in a month by this dreadful horse-racing?
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_155580.12Whereupon Ruby screamed at the top of her voice, with a shriek very much louder than that which had at first attracted John Crumb's notice.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_10660.12Gerty not only stopped, but came close up to Emily's chair, irresistibly attracted by the sweetest voice she had ever heard.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_245180.12grinned the ventriloquist.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_81060.11She was pale as a corpse, but her breathing was easy and unbroken, while her voice, though lowered almost to a whisper, remained clear and distinct.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_61890.11"Oh yes, Lorna; go with him," cried Lizzie, dropping her lip, in a way which you must see to know its meaning; "John wants nobody now but you; and none can find fault with his taste, dear."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_245210.11The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_3460.11His mouth was a triumph of its class.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_154470.10'Like enough,' said John Crumb in a low voice.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_82250.10said Marianne, lowering her tone; "that's her brother in the window."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_13170.10"Miss Emily," said Gerty, at last, in the lowest whisper, "I mean to _try_, but I don't think I _can_."
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_17740.09I cried in such a scared tone that she dropped her work into her lap.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_70800.09As John Crumb asked this question she could be heard distinctly among the pots and the plates.
Reade_Foul_Play_75240.09Wylie heard her lamentations, and grinned; for now his 2,000 pounds was as good as in his pocket, he thought.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_61310.09So thought I--or might have thought--but that John and Ursula then demanded with one voice, "Brother, come home."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_268530.09murmured the murderer; then he dropped his head and stammered a few inarticulate oaths.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_67850.09"Speak not of my blindness as a misfortune," answered Emily; "I have long ceased to think it such.
Alcott_Work_23990.09Mrs. Sterling dropped her voice over that last sentence; but Christie heard it, and was pleased.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_8710.08"I know it," he replied, in a tone of quiet confidence that carries more conviction than loud assertion.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_33300.08The cessation of his brother's voice awoke him, and rubbing his eyes he said, "Yes, yes, Ashton had the ship fever.
Lewald_Hulda_33570.08I am glad," she said at last, in low, broken tones, " that the countess is to be with her brother aftT so long a separa- tion."
Harris_Rutledge_59280.08Whispering a courage and confidence I did not feel to Victor, I hurried off his domino, and Kitty threw it over her dress.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_17460.07"Mr. Tag-rag"--said Gammon, lowering his voice, and looking very earnestly at his companion--"can I say a word to you in confidence--the strictest confidence?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_33130.07Thereupon, Tholomyes lowered his voice and articulated something so mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea."
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_3040.07"John," said she, elevating her voice so as to drown the noise of the cars, "I never thought on't till this minit, but I'd just as lief ride in the second-class cars as not, and it only costs half as much!"
Wood_East_Lynne_57730.06Should I know you?
Wood_East_Lynne_11920.06"Yes, yes.
Warner_Queechy_55600.06"Not I!--at least I think not.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_136970.06"I must go to Brock at once," he said aloud, "and tell him.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_49280.06Courage!"
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_131340.06said he.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_26630.06So take which you like best."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_70040.06For France!
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_29620.06And so he did!
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_85090.06"Shall you have the courage?"
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_142280.06courage!"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76500.11he repeated, in a voice low and hollow as an echo.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2150.10I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_95980.10"Jane, I ever like your tone of voice: it still renews hope, it sounds so truthful.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6120.18Did she not hear the noise, the dreary sound that echoed back from the rafters of the old Dierkhof ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42600.15These words sounded like a thunder clap in Elizabeth’s ears.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23440.13Where now were all her dreamings and all her endeavours to read the meaning of that mysterious warning that had of late breathed through her melodies?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17260.12I scarcely thought that my wife would gird on all the armour of her virtuous scorn and moral supremacy in the cause of this bastard I" A shudder of the same dread as was inspired at home by the sudden sound of her mother's imperious tones ran through her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36790.12Through the melody that Kitty’s fingers evoked from the piano the girl could hear a continuous murmur of sound, in which she distinguished the grave tone of the doctor’s voice, although, to her great satisfaction, no distinct word was audible.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40540.12A sound as of an impatient stamp of the foot upon the sanded tiles of the hall-floor reached the young girl’s ears.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41480.11"And I am quite aware of having distinctly told you that it is a matter of utter indifference to me."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25460.09Suddenly there was a crackling in the bushes; it was just the sound tbat Spitz used to make at the Dierkhof when he came to look for me, and would dash through the underbrush into the water, and everything around me now was so like home that at that sound of breaking twigs I called my dear old com- rade loudly by name.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39750.09"Be calm and cool," said EckhoPs warning voice, as he rose and took the young girl by the arm. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26550.09The sound of the cannon suddenly ceased, and before long all traces of tears vanished from Elizabeth’s eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39440.07Her replies to Helena’s remarks were unheard by the poor sufferer, but there was something soothing in the mere sound of a human voice after her wretched, lonely night.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3680.07You must be aware of that."
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1000.07Think!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9930.06But without there were sounds of reawakening ex- istence.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36110.06I will take her safe home to the Karolinenlust."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47510.06came the hum and noise of human life.

Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_24600.21It was strangely still, strangely lonely, and the echo of the gallop seemed to beat on the stirless, breathless solitude.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_49290.21And the voice sounded so strangely hollow and threatening.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_10290.20But he could not tell what he knew, and all that he said sounded so hollow and hypocritical that it made him feel guilty.
Collins_The_Moonstone_68780.20"It sounds strangely," I went on, "in my old-fashioned ears----" "What sounds strangely?"
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_57400.18Loud echoes repeated the summons from its hollow walls; but no other voice was heard, no human face appeared; for the ravening hand of Cressingham had been there!
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_68250.18I was close against the mouth of the dry well when I heard a sound that made my blood creep.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_40290.17"Human creatures are made for 'moving on.'
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_24360.16At length, about the tenth day, this human being's desire to exchange a friendly word with some other human creature became so strong that in the chapel during service he scratched the door of his sentry-box, and whispered, "Mate, whisper me a word, for pity's sake."
Evans_Inez_23970.16Still, now that his steps no longer echoed at their door, and his deep voice sounded not again on her ear, a lonely feeling stole into her heart, and often she crept from her dreary home and sought the churchyard.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_213830.16Then, with sighs which were unlike any human sound, he dragged himself to the door, reeled across the court-yard, and falling into the arms of his valet, he said in a voice scarcely intelligible,--"Home, home."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_214960.16Then, with sighs which were unlike any human sound, he dragged himself to the door, reeled across the court-yard, and falling into the arms of his valet, he said in a voice scarcely intelligible, -- "Home, home."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_27580.16said a voice that seemed to come from beneath the earth, and, deadened by the distance, sounded hollow and sepulchral in the young man's ears.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_27650.16said a voice that seemed to come from beneath the earth, and, deadened by the distance, sounded hollow and sepulchral in the young man's ears.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_121670.16However small a society may be, if it is a human one jealousy shall creep in.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_35230.16A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_59840.16Suddenly there came from afar the piercing blast of a trumpet.
Bronte_Shirley_115370.16There was another sound in her weeping--a softer, more regretful sound.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_25800.15Others than Andy were thinking of Ethelyn that day, for not the faintest echo of a huzza reached Richard's ears that did not bring with it regretful thoughts of her.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_15960.15The sound of a human voice falls upon the girl's ear.
Wood_East_Lynne_150290.15A dusky, livid sort of hue, not unlike William's had worn the night of his death, and her voice sounded strangely hollow.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_74670.14said he, in a tone and accent so unlike his ordinary one as to make her start with surprise.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_19720.14The Palace of the Caesars has gone down thither, with a hollow, rumbling sound of its fragments!
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_16050.14But Ralph's own faith was weak, and his words sounded hollow and hypocritical to himself.
Bronte_Villette_59090.14Now Methusaleh, though so very old, was of sound timber still; only there was a hole, or rather a deep hollow, near his root.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_13980.14The quick roll of the drum, the sharp, quick blast of the trumpet echoed and re-echoed at different sides of the encampment; the call to arms, in various stentorian tones, rung through the woodland glades, quickly banishing all other sounds.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_96750.14And her voice sounded in Graham's ears as the voice of Eve may have sounded to Adam.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_18700.14The clear voice which sounded, even in talking, like the twittering of birds, utterly confused him.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_28720.14Or"--here his voice took a hollow, threatening sound, "or, perhaps, you think that here _I_ am master, and that I need only say one word to prove it to you--to prove it to you both!"
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_69820.14Then sounded the trumpet; and the herald's voice in the streets proclaimed the victory of the regent.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_59820.14The hollow echo of its fall reminded the waggoner painfully of the grim Leveller.
Evans_Vashti_66840.14that is the dreariest word that human misery ever conjectured or human language clothed.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_178070.13'He has gone,' said Melmotte hoarsely.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_27220.13Not a sound.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_93500.13How oddly it sounded to her.
Disraeli_Lothair_65880.13"As sound as you are.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_67100.13echoed Edwards, "whither do you go?"
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_14120.12Not the smallest concession--not the most trifling compromise can be wrung from him, and he will not listen to the warning voices which sound even in his ears.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_2690.12There was an ominous sound of parting stitches, and an abrupt period in the young lady's graceful progress.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_88810.12"I do not wish to discuss democracy with you," she answered, with a tone that sounded strangely tranquil to Cigarette after the scathing acrimony of her own.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_27350.12The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of Judgment.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_37440.12It sounded so strangely in Gertrude's ears, as she stood hesitating before the brown door and grasped the knob.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_50730.12Every shriek of the blast seemed a summons, or would have seemed so had Mr. Brown been accustomed to hear the echoes of his own fancy in the wind.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_64220.12"You can't come across," Bathsheba said in a whisper, which she vainly endeavoured to make loud enough to reach Liddy's ears.
Cooper_The_Prairie_13570.12repeated Abiram, in a voice which sounded hollow and warning; "if you have time for any thing but quarrels, Ishmael, look!"
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_53520.12Softly as I moved, the dog's ears of Miserrimus Dexter caught the sound of my dress on the floor.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_2090.12He pronounced that one word in a tone so utterly unlike his natural tone that his voice sounded quite strange to me.
Cooper_Pathfinder_13570.12When he desired his companions, however, to cease talking, his vigilant ear had caught the peculiar sound which is made by the parting of a dried branch of a tree and which, if his senses did not deceive him, came from the western shore.
Bronte_Shirley_103710.12He had gone through some of the best passages of Racine and Corneille, and then had heard the echo of his own deep tones in the girl's voice, that modulated itself faithfully on his.
Wister_Schillingscourt_2330.12"We do good in many other ways also, although we do not sound a trumpet before us.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_251880.12You are a man of sound judgment.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41890.11"Shake hands in confirmation of the word.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2530.12His head sank now deep upon his breast,— he lifted his right elbow, as if in an attitude of defense, and looked crossly from under it at the strange little girl.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11130.15I must repeat my request," Gisela said, again turning to the Prince, and speaking in an impressive tone of entreaty, whilst she put aside the veil.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52630.13"I have given you my word; now I am the puppet whom you rule by this wire,"—she raised her closed hand,—"are you satisfied?"
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_740.10"It is best not to mention so loudly the names of people who cannot rest quiet in their graves, Fraulein Sophie," she muttered in a low voice and with a disapproving shake of her head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47740.10I do it without a word of excuse or self-justification——" His voice sank.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8740.09Again he bent low above the girlish face that was turned upon him in breathless attention.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60200.09Grief hindered me from speaking as I knelt down beside my father, whose head was lying on the lowest step.

Evans_Vashti_60920.23She rapped the canvas with her clenched hand, and continued, in accents of indescribable scorn,-- "Do you kneel as penitent or petitioner?
Collins_Woman_in_White_3380.20She spoke loudly and almost fiercely, raised her clenched hand in the air, and shook it passionately; then, on a sudden, controlled herself again, and added, in tones lowered to a whisper "Tell me which of them YOU know."
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_21550.19His voice sank in lower and lower monotone lest his sudden stopping should awaken her, then he laid down his book and read a different story in the pure young face turned toward him.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_208470.18He turned his head, looked around him, and saw no one; but the sound was repeated distinctly enough to convince him of its reality.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_16980.18Her bowed head sank lower and lower till he ceased speaking.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_71230.16He paused for a moment, and as he lifted up his own hand, and turned a look of indignant passion towards the staff, added, in a voice the sarcasm of whose tone there is no forgetting:-- "Il s'amuse à Gembloux!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_42480.16They bowed their heads low over their books and slates, and hardly ventured to breathe, still less to utter a word of excuse.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_49500.15The old man spoke again; but his tones were low, and his words seemed a reproof, for she bowed her head between her hands and sobbed heavily.
Collins_Armadale_18030.15The suffering and the passion that he was forcing back shook the hand that he still kept on the table, and stifled the voice in which he spoke until it sank to a whisper.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_79490.15His voice died away to a murmur, and his head sank on his breast.
Evans_Inez_38620.15he said in a low, subdued tone, sinking his head upon his breast.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_31650.14The Schoolmaster, dumfounded at this discovery, lowered his head and made no response.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_25840.14Then, when she took no heed, but turned aside Her head, he shook his ears As much as to say "Great are--as these--my fears."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_209560.14He turned his head, looked around him, and saw no one; but the sound was repeated distinctly enough to convince him of its reality.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_33520.13However, we took some ways to let the poor flying creatures know that we would not hurt them, and immediately they came up to us, and kneeling down, with their hands lifted up, made piteous lamentations to us to save them, which we let them know we would do; where upon they kept all together in a huddle close behind us for protection.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_23970.13But see," he said, raising his voice from the low, mournful tones in which he had spoken to a pitch of keen excitement, and stretching forth both hands, "they shake like a deer at the wolf's howl.
Evans_Inez_7470.13He laid his hands on her bowed head, and muttered indistinctly a Latin phrase.
Bronte_Villette_45850.13In uttering the request, my voice faltered, my head sank on my arms and the table.
Bronte_Villette_35430.13Still repeating this word, I turned to my pillow; and _still_ repeating it, I steeped that pillow with tears.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_24520.13She bowed her head upon his extended hand, but her choking voice could speak no word.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_70630.13In the deep stillness I could hear the scraping sound of the pen on the paper, and scarcely dared to breathe lest I should cause discovery, when the figure retired from the window, and moved towards the table.
Bronte_Villette_63580.13The worst of the matter was, that Dr. Bretton, whose ears, as I have said, were quick and fine, caught every word of this apostrophe; he put his handkerchief to his face, and laughed till he shook.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_121110.13The doctor saw Kate, and, shaking his head, told her that her grandfather was sinking lower and lower every hour.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_13200.13But the hand of the strong man shook and his heart grew heavy as lead when he turned the sheet thrice over, seeking in vain for some line or word, or syllable or sign.
Warner_Queechy_39760.12Her head sank.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_26120.12I pointed to my mouth with an Au--au--and then to my ears, and shook my head; but he would not be convinced, and I heard him say something about English.
Bronte_Shirley_70530.12Caroline sped like levelled shaft from bent bow; after her rang a jesting, gibing laugh.
Bronte_Shirley_109270.12Stopping behind Shirley's chair, he bent over her, and said, in a low, emphatic voice, "I promise all you ask--without comment, without reservation."
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_990.12said Miss Winter in a low voice to Flora, who shook her head, and said confidentially, "He is not coming till he has passed that examination.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_400.12Scarcely of the whispered words of the man on the low seat beside her, for she never looked at him, and even turned away from him with a gesture betokening that his conversation was anything but agreeable to her.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_3730.12The conversation then took a more tender turn.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_70880.12One syllable had cost your head."
Collins_Man_and_Wife_23160.12Are you convinced that it all grows on her head?"
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_25660.11In such a manner, as the prayer proceeded, did those voices strengthen upon the ear, till at length the petition ended, and the conversation of an aged man and of a woman broken and decayed like himself became distinctly audible to the lady as she knelt.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_50960.11"Ay, more," said Gerard, lowering his voice almost to a whisper; "celestial sounds have issued from the purlieus of that very crypt you turned into a tavern.
Evans_Vashti_67470.11The girl's head sank lower and lower until it touched her knees, and sobs rendered her words scarcely audible.
Bronte_Villette_92160.11I might have taken this discovery as a thunder-clap, but such hyperbole would have been premature; discovery was destined to rise more than one degree, ere it reached its climax.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_30600.11If I coughed, or moved my book, or bowed, or even said "Amen," glances were exchanged which meant--"That he hath learned in London town, and most likely from His Majesty."
Wood_East_Lynne_8180.11echoed Barbara, lifting her head.
Wood_East_Lynne_71540.11she said, in a low tone, as she shook his hand.
Warner_Queechy_160800.11They made her deaf to the light sound of footsteps coming over the grass,--till two hands gently touched hers and lifted her up, and then Fleda was at home.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_57750.11After a moment, in which Denys lived an hour of agony, a peevish, half-inarticulate noise issued from the room at the head of the little stairs.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_34780.11If it stuck by the way, he would get a telescope of Mr. Lammie's, and therewith watch its struggles till it broke loose, then follow it careering up to the kite.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_56570.11Now and then, as some louder crash would resound above our heads, for a moment we would turn to the window, and comment upon the dreadful weather; but the next, we had forgotten all about it, and were deep in our confabulations.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_7880.11"Pardonnez, moi," returned Victor, speaking in his mother tongue, and bowing low to the indignant child, whom he helped to a seat by Richard.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_20440.11The hunter now raised his head again, and addressed the old warrior warmly in the Delaware language, which, for the benefit of our readers, we shall render freely into English.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_52890.11At these words the young man raised his head, which he had still kept bowed a little, in reverence; and lifting his voice so as to be heard by the multitude, as if to explain at once and forever the policy of his family, he said aloud: "Once we slept where we could hear the salt lake speak in its anger.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_69370.10The old man started as I spoke; his hand trembled till it shook my very arm, and after a pause and with an effort to seem calm and collected, he added,-- "My hours are few.
Collins_Armadale_64100.10His finger pointed to the lines which recorded the first Vision; his voice, sinking lower and lower, repeated the words: "The sense came to me of being left alone in the darkness.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_34110.10The deep, sonorous voice of the abbot audibly faltered as he commenced the sacred service, and looked on the fair beings kneeling, in the beauty and freshness of their youth, before him.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12180.18"My things were indeed in shameful disorder," murmured Helen to me, in a low voice: "I intended to have arranged them, but I forgot."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29970.15A joyous stir was now audible in the hall: gentlemen's deep tones and ladies' silvery accents blent harmoniously together, and distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50140.14"Come to me -- come to me entirely now," said he; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, "Make my happiness -- I will make yours."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1190.14"What we tell you is for your good," added Bessie, in no harsh voice, "you should try to be useful and pleasant, then, perhaps, you would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude, Missis will send you away, I am sure."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70630.14These opinions he delivered in a few words, in a quiet, low voice; and added, after a pause, in the tone of a man little accustomed to expansive comment, "Rather an unusual physiognomy; certainly, not indicative of vulgarity or degradation."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84660.13"Then I must speak for it," continued the deep, relentless voice.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_34640.13The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman," -- "quite troublesome."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70010.13In her simple words, too, the same balm-like emotion spoke: "Try to eat."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58060.11Profound silence fell when he had uttered that word, with deep but low intonation.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65200.11It spoke to my spirit: immeasurably distant was the tone, yet so near, it whispered in my heart - "My daughter, flee temptation."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90790.10Gladdening words!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83870.10"In such earnest that I must have it so: and I will tell you why."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72000.10"To be sure," added her sister.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54130.10"Did I like his voice?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40280.10he added, shuddering.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_40220.10"She bit me," he murmured.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37350.10asked the familiar voice.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_86520.09"Then shake hands," I added.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64900.09What unutterable pathos was in his voice!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47690.09he added, when he had paused an instant.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67840.09she exclaimed, "there is a woman wants me to give her these porridge."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39150.09asked the voice I expected to hear, viz., my master's.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27310.08"I think I hear Mrs. Fairfax move, sir," said I.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18630.17asked the Professor, still controlling himself—although the tone of his voice betrayed his displeasure.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7330.14asked Frau Ilellwig, in a cutting tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26670.14"Oh, they’ve had a time there, I can tell you—a disgraceful timel" she said in a low voice as Felieitas stood by her in the kitchen dressing the salad.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37560.13"This is ‘a fearful retaliationl" he said in a low suffering tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9710.11"Ah, Madame, I am only too willing to work," cried the man, with a choking voice; "my illness has brought me so low .
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5690.10"Oh, for Herr Richter!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_39470.10he murmured.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31440.10Suddenly new voices arose there, appealing loudly in the midst of the uproar, and they sounded like the echo of his earnest words of entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27230.09With all the selfcontrol that he could command, he took a different tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1190.09"Yes," he murmured through his white lips.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_490.09called out a stern, hard voice from within.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42850.09"That sounds harsh and stern," he said with some embarrassment.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12550.08"Ah, I am just in time to hear sentence passed," she said.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7460.08I will not suffer tl" she cried, with almost a shriek in her usually gentle voice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_36620.08"Fe1icitas," he whispered, in a deep tone of entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19290.08Words and tones were at his bidding which stirred electrically the heart of the listener.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11100.07"Be quiet, child, you did no harm,——but I-—I was talking like a childish old womanl" she said, in a choked voice.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36780.31he added, suddenly changing his tone to one of harsh, angry command, and in his irritation so far forgetting himself as to raise his cane with an air of menace.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35140.20she said, in a voice that trembled in spite of herself. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13930.19And Helene herself, shamed probably by Elizabeth’s silence, seemed to be conscious that she had lost her self-control, for she suddenly, in an altered voice, begged her to take a chair and stay with her for awhile.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22180.18he asked, brusquely; his voice had not lost its former harsh tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22790.17The deep, melodious voice of the priest broke the silence.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2490.17He still looked flushed, and his tone of voice was strangely tremulous; from anger the little girl thought. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1160.17"Beg pardon," she said, in a deep, harsh voice, retreating as she spoke. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47610.17He was standing in the midst of the house- servants, and his harsh voice trembled. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18230.16Behind the wall against which the wardrobe stood, a deep, melodious voice suddenly sang, in long-drawn tones, ii verse of a hymn.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14990.16he asked in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7780.15she asked, slowly, in an altered voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21650.15she called down to her, in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11450.14" And now she lives at Schnwerth on charity, and is given over to the will and pleasure of that harsh woman," murmured Liana, with emotion. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10370.14In a low voice that trembled with rage, she react ' through the first paragraphs, that repudiated her in the most distinct manner.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40260.14His expression was icy; the tone of his voice sounded rough and harsh; the blood seemed to have forsaken his cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23450.14It rung out clearly now in mighty tones, at the sound of which all the former gentle breathings of her inward emotions died away in an inaudible whisper.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39920.14In low tones, but clearly and distinctly, she told him every- thing.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39390.14he asked, in a voice that was exquisitely low and gentle.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14130.14she cried, in a tone of intense agitation. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41980.14she cried, her voice vibrating with anger.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28970.14Flora said, in a strangely altered tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22760.13The deep, gentle tones of his voice obliterated all remembrance of the cutting irony that had rendered it so sharp a few moments before, when it had given to his words such an accent of irritation, and had sounded as if designed only to wound and avenge.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50030.13she whispered, sitting upright ; " your master must not be alarmed."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43650.13You are ill," he said, in a low tone, bending down to me; "indeed, I cannot leave you alone.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8320.13from encountering the man who was speaking to her in tones of such emotion.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18200.13"Pray forgive me," she said in a trembling voice, as soon as he stood beside her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35700.13It soars no longer," he murmured, in half-stifled tones. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34030.13I will not have it I" Words and manner were harsh and peremptory, and she involuntarily stood still. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32000.13Juliana, take care," he said, in a low tone, raising his forefinger. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2320.13"I never cared for blondes," she added, in her gentle, low tones.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9440.13Ah, this is really becoming serious," cried his Serene Highness in a tone of vexation. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29230.13Agnes,"—his voice grew low and ardent again,-—" do you not know that it is you who give and not I ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15400.13"Never, for I have a mother," replied Elizabeth in a tone of deep feeling.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23890.12"Herr von Walde seems much interested," she added, in a lower tone, as the rider leaned from his saddle, and appeared to be listening intently to what the young lady was saying.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24210.12"And I have one more cause for complaint, my dear Frau von Mainau," she said, in honeyed tones.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5550.12Then Claudine said, in a low and resolute tone, "I shall never-marry, never without love on both sides; never!
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10190.12He sinned deeply but he suffered much," he continued in a louder tone of voice. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27820.12Your distress is nearly over," he said, in a tone meant to soothe her; but in his own agitation his words were scarcely audible.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32970.12they now heard the forester say in a far gentler tone of voice; "at least that is a sign that you are not quite hardened.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11080.12"You know well enough that I cannot do what you ask; I am no surgeon," he replied, in a stifled tone, that was lost in an almost inarticulate murmur.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_48700.11He was very angry ; but, folding his arms upon his chest, he said, lightly, although in a cutting tone, " I am surprised at you.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27680.11His dead body was taken from the lake in the park this afternoon," he added, in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22870.11That was the reason why he had suddenly spoken in such a harsh tone of command,—a tone which only those heard from him who had committed some fault, and why she was called upon to explain the impression which Hollfeld’s sudden appearance had made upon her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50730.11Flora uttered a low cry—whether from fright or vexation was doubtful—as the tall white figure appeared upon the threshold and in a low voice begged for quiet for her sleeping sister.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61370.11Eckhof started as the gentle tones fell upon his ear more crushingly than the severest denunciation.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41260.11Elizabeth looked up surprised; there was not in his voice the faintest trace of that impertinent tone that had so irritated and outraged her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53640.11And therefore Kitty started in terror when the doctor’s full deep voice broke the silence.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36190.11She paused, and stood listening for a moment to the threatening sound of Eckhof's voice as it rang out on the night.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55900.11It contained only these words: "Have the kindness to deliver to the Countess Witte the ring entrusted to you, or, if you choose, throw it into the river after the other!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18890.11Kitty could hear his soothing tones, his gentle voice, and now and then a laugh so merry that the invalid could not but join in it.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6780.10There was a world of scorn in the slowly-spoken, sharply-emphasized words, and in the tone of her full, deep voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9300.10At that moment the Frau President rang the bell so sharply that the sound echoed from the end of the long corridor.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61850.10she asked, in a cutting tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61530.10he asked at last, in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33630.10Let us go," he said, in a resigned tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14690.10she added, gaily.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9050.10"I cannot be harsh.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17560.10he said, in a broken voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41390.10how angry you can be!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29720.10"Now we are entirely alone," he said, in the gentlest possible tone.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6700.10I really believe I am frightened.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34400.10Was that Flora’s voice?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19620.10said a boy’s voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21560.10the old lady cried, her soft and carefully-modulated voice sounding almost harsh in the intense quiet that had reigned in the room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47800.09he cried, in an indignant tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8210.09he Whispered, in a broken voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5400.09asked the Duchess, with passionate emotion.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8130.09she asked, and there was melody in her broken voice. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53940.09"It is nothing, Lorchen," he said in a forced tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52180.09she continued in a louder tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15290.09she faltered, in a broken voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29370.09"I pray you look at me," he said, in a tone of command.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20870.09she exclaimed, in a suppressed tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6750.09"Strangely enoilgh it has forgotten them all but this one sentence [ts master, to whom it was much attached, repeated these three words incessantly in the delirium of fever, uttering them even with his latest breath.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46400.09he answered in vibrating tones, which seemed to come from the depths of his heart, while with all a brother’s tenderness he put his left arm around the frail form that could hardly stand upright.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37700.09From behind the rocks sounded a low laugh.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34950.09he cried, in a compassionate tone, to the Princess.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25980.09a man's voice cried to her from the balcony.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12110.09I only wish you could have heard its magnificent tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25110.09As she was slowly descending the mountain she saw all that Elizabeth had seen.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53330.09he interrupted her, scarce able to master his emotion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45740.09the Frau President murmured, with a start.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34380.09It was gently breathed, and yet it vibrated through the hall.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24320.09he asked, so suddenly, so sharply, that she started involuntarily.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_9070.09She had spoken louder and louder, until she did not perceive that her voice was entirely destroying the effect of a touching phrase, just delivered by the unwearied chaplain, whose efforts had not been intermitted for an instant.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36930.08His tongue did not stammer over this odious lie; on the contrary, it aided his plans with such insinuating tones that the poor girl’s heart was torn by a wild conflict of emotions.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26090.08Liana uttered a low cry of horror.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15130.08Such words sound strange from a woman's lips," he said. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5850.08No one must be able to say, ‘She forgot me.’ " Claudine read in trembling accents.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6710.08"No, I am not going to sleep," I said, trying to make my voice sound decided.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5930.08How terribly the long, silent voice vibrated !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6130.08he asked, in a raised voice that instantly produced silence. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17510.08None until I can prove to you that you have grossly insulted me," she said in a low tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15050.08And yet she had the insolence to ask his silence in that gentle tone of entreaty!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24010.08he cried jestingly, but in a low tone of voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7250.08She could hear it in his voice, and fell silent in dismay.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12220.08Baron Mainau's voice was heard, loud and clear.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31250.08Those whispered tones, so soft and fervent, moved me strangely.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4960.08she asked, peevishly, in a weak, but sharp, high tone of voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45050.08"Then we did not know of the secret hidden in the ruins," said Elizabeth, in an almost inaudible tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29950.08Again the smile played around Elizabeth’s mouth, and she murmured assent.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24030.08For the first time Kitty heard how indescribably sweet her voice could be.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33750.08A door within slammed to, and immediately afterwards the old bookkeeper's scolding voice was heard. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26720.08he asked, in a monotonous tone of voice, as if to ward off other explanations with the ques- tion. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28800.07Had he expected that she would follow him, touched to sympathy by his voice, that had startled even himself, and that had been so all-powerful with women?

Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_105480.30"Here we are," his frank, cheery voice says--his voice, that has yet a deeper, more earnest tone than of old.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_23990.27Then, in a low, quick tone, she added, "Will you not stay as a favor to me?"
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_63680.26The tone was low and trembling: no one would have recognized it as the tone of Horace's voice.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_104070.24"I don't forget the danger and the woe of one weak woman, madam, and she the daughter of a man who once stood in this room," said Amyas, suddenly collecting himself, in a low stern voice.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_96430.23While she stood thus, with something drawing her on and something drawing her back, and palpitating in every fiber, Mrs. Wilson's voice was heard in low but anxious tones calling her.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_13080.22"Tom," whispered a low voice in my ear,--"Master Tom, don't delay, my dear; let us slip out here.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_43590.22I have long forgotten how," said Falkenried, in a low but milder tone.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_42510.22said a hollow voice, tremulous with agitation and rage, close beside me.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_20960.22Philip rose, and standing over him, said, in a low but impressive tone: 'I cannot tell whether you are trifling or not; but you are no boy now, and can surely see that this is no subject to be played with.
Evans_St_Elmo_49130.22He had passed his arm around her and drawn her close to his side, and the pleading tenderness of his low voice was indeed hard to resist.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_40280.21"I think he would be so very angry, that Tom, who, you know, is timid and meek, would be dreadfully frightened," said Richard.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_120700.21"May it be the right excelsior" added Ethel, in a low voice that no one heard, and she was glad they did not.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_83980.21And, Guy,' he added, breaking off with trembling eagerness, 'when did you hear from Hollywell?
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_85540.21"_Yourself_," said Gualtier, in a low, earnest voice, with all his soul in the glance which he threw upon her.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_68180.21Deep and low grew the tones of Lord Chetwynde's voice as he spoke these words--deep and low, yet restrained with that restraint which is put over the feelings by a strong nature, and yet can not hide that consuming passion which underlies all the words, and makes them burn with intensest heat.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_8590.20said Rodolph to him in a low voice.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_8500.20said a harsh, low voice from behind.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_50610.20said she, in a voice low and tremulous.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_124160.20Then she added in a low voice, "And I will think of it again."
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_29990.20"You are too harsh," said he, in a pleading voice.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_59980.20He had drawn her to his side, and was speaking in low, earnest tones, but not of downfall or of danger.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_39330.20In spite of his sternness, the comte could not repress a shudder, as he said, in a voice of emotion: "I forgive you."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_69080.20Besides," added he, in a lower tone, "the general is ever harsh at the moment of victory; and such is the present.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_42440.20said a harsh, imperious tone I at once recognized as that of the First Consol, while his voice actually trembled with anger.
Disraeli_Lothair_37810.20"And yet there is danger of it," said Lady Corisande, "more than danger," she added in a low but earnest voice.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_72550.20Hilda had spoken in low tones, and as she concluded she looked at Gualtier with a penetrating glance.
Evans_Beulah_87640.20Ere the first verse was finished, a deep, rich, manly voice, which had sometimes echoed through the study, seemed again to join hers, and, despite her efforts, her own tones trembled.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_45260.19Mingling with the deeper, hoarser tones of men were the shrill voices of women, showing that they too had been drawn to witness a destruction that meant to them loss of bread.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_1060.19The tone of his voice was rather sharp, and Edith paused suddenly, while he made an uncertain movement toward her, still keeping his ear turned in the attitude of intense listening.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_99580.19said John, in a tone that, low as it was, somehow found its way through all her agitation, and calmed her like a spell; "have you not good reason to believe that all is well with her?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_197440.19But when she found how harsh her daughter could be in response to this how gloomy, how silent, and how severe in retaliation she was almost frightened at what she herself was doing.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_156400.19Burgo knew that he must go,--felt that he must skulk away as best he might, and perhaps hear a low titter of half-suppressed laughter as he went.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_35450.19"Why," asked her ladyship, in a tremulous and low tone, "why should we seek ideal sorrows, when those of our own hearts are beyond alleviation?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_43340.19Again the voice called to me to begin; and a low murmur of angry meaning ran through the orchestra.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_117740.19For the office of the dead they adopt a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a depth.
Wood_East_Lynne_20320.19he exclaimed, in a tone of deep emotion.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_53250.19he asked, in a voice tremulous with excessive emotion.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_164020.19"I was harsh to her when she told me," he said, after another pause--"cruelly harsh."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_77670.19said Gervaise, in a tone of harsh impatience.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_26710.19"You should not speak so to me," he said in a deep low voice.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_12570.19"Ah--well," she went on, in a half-bantering tone.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_92910.19"I do not know," she murmured gloomily in a low tone.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_2030.19"You have spoken her name," said he, at last, in an altered and tremulous tone; "tell me, now, all that you know of her."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_261610.19Then he added, in a low tone, "Yes; that is the haven."
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_63860.19"And you're quite right, Roberts," said Hilda, in an encouraging tone.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_101140.19Hilda drew a deep sigh.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_22300.19"Not yet," he exclaimed, in a low, earnest tone.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_17040.19The colonel's quick glance caught the movement, and his brief imperious tones rang over the hubbub of voices loud and clear, "Don't stir, Connell; stay where you are.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_48020.18These last words Lady Glencora spoke in a lower voice and in an altered tone,--slowly, as though she were thinking of something that pained her.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_42020.18He suddenly startled Annie by saying, in a tone of harsh and intense bitterness, "Her death made 'havoc' for me.

Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_45750.21bawled Madame Pipelet, in a tone sharp and shrill enough to have split the tympanum of a deaf man; "Alfred, my old darling, have at 'em!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_161560.20Though his coming was announced in a very low tone, Madame de Saint-Meran arose from her pillow.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_27710.19As these unfeeling speeches reached her ear, as she heard their barbarous jokes, and observed the exasperated looks of the brutally excited individuals who approached her to carry their threat into execution, Fleur-de-Marie gave herself over for lost.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_183980.19said Madame de Villefort in a harsh and constrained tone.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_16550.18The milder tone of the widow made Martial believe that his threats had produced a salutary effect on her, and he fell into the fearful snare.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_28440.15A significant growl of discontent was heard, some muttered threats and insulting words were spoken; but, as the two emerged from the forest on to the main road, there was silence, the troop, as if by a preconcerted movement, forming itself into a compact mass ready to bar the passage.
Cooper_The_Spy_55950.15While busily occupied in the very indispensable operation of breaking their fast, our adventurers were startled with the sound of distant firearms.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_3270.14The only sound that broke the stillness was the ticking of the clock upon the stair.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_185060.14said Madame de Villefort in a harsh and constrained tone.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_47050.14The pronunciation of so terrible a name produced the usual effect among his auditors.
Wood_East_Lynne_148840.13Or, it may have been that there was now and then a tone in Madame Vine's voice that grated on her ear; a wrung, impatient tone, wanting in respect, savoring of hauteur, which Barbara did not understand, and did not like.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_9430.13Saint and sinner got the same answer--a shake of the head, a curse, a threat if he were not left alone, growled out between deep draughts of strong Moldavian wine.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_38530.13replied Fleur-de-Marie, in a tone of deepest grief.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_53190.13"It was deathly still in the room; no sound but the swift, low ticking of the clock.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_213020.13He who was thus looking, without being heard or seen, probably heard and saw all that passed in Madame de Morcerf's apartments.
Bronte_Villette_28200.13She approached her lips to my ear--"Isidore and Alfred de Hamal are both here?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_39030.13"If you would consent," murmured forth Fleur-de-Marie, in a faint, gasping voice.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_11030.13"I prefer fairies less cold and ethereal," said De Forrest, with a meaning look at the speaker.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_1600.13He has one little peculiarity, and that is, to bawl broken English at the top of his voice when he wants to communicate with foreigners."
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_142260.12cried Dr. May, almost petulant at the sound of the bell again, breaking into the conversation that was a great refreshment.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_18970.12And poor Fleur-de-Marie tried to suppress the deep sigh that would accompany her words.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_66810.12From one phrase which constantly met our ears, it seemed that the Bois de Bossu was the key of the position.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_94370.12At these words, uttered with the most exquisite sweetness and politeness, Madame de Morcerf replied.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_117360.12"Yet conscience remains," remarked Madame de Villefort in an agitated voice, and with a stifled sigh.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_2170.11A deep, plaintive groan, something between a grunt and a sigh, from the bed on which Alfred reposed, here interrupted Madame Pipelet.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_25150.11"I know you not," exclaimed Madame de Fermont, striving to command herself sufficiently to speak with a steady voice; "what is it you seek here?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_151340.11"Well, no, madame, -- this is the terrible news I have to tell you," said Villefort in a hollow voice -- "no, nothing was found beneath the flowers; there was no child disinterred -- no.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_27190.11And--" The faint tones of Fleur-de-Marie's voice were drowned in the loud uproarious cries of the surrounding multitude.
Bronte_Villette_92830.11I heard her mutter more than once; and at last, as if determined to have an answer to her question--which hitherto none seemed to mind, she spoke aloud this phrase--a phrase brief enough, simple enough, but it sent a shock through me--"Messieurs et mesdames," said she, "ou donc est Justine Marie?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_180630.10de Cardoville, in a failing voice.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_55420.10"Law, you niggers," she would say to some of her auditors, "does you know you 's all sinners?
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_54460.10repeated Madame Pipelet, in a loud tone.
Wood_East_Lynne_104050.10A strange rising of the throat in her wild despair, a meek courtesy, as she turned from him, his last words ringing in her ears: "I shall call in further advice for him, Madame Vine."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_280970.10He could not guess their full meaning, but they sounded hollow to his ear; and moreover, whether from instinct or presentiment, he had conceived a vague dislike for the Princess de Saint-Dizier.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_32170.10The harshness and unreasonableness of his conduct became at last quite unendurable; while Madame Roland, with the honeyed words of feigned affection, would artfully intercede for me, because she well knew by so doing she should only increase the storm she had raised.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_41900.09The accent, the tone of voice in which she said these few words, sent a thrill through me; and as I looked again, I recognized the young lady who stood at Madame Bonaparte's side on the memorable day of my fall.
Wood_East_Lynne_150140.09But I say, madame," he continued, dropping his fervent tone, "what do you allude to?
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_20540.09cried M. de Saint-Remy, in a menacing voice.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_46210.09Faint and far away, as a response to De Forrest's words, came again more clearly the cry for help.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_180.09"Of course I am," said Mr. De Forrest in a low tone, and leaning towards the maiden.
Whitney_We_Girls_13610.06"I don't know.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_108780.06'You don't, don't you?
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_21680.06glou!"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_62560.06said Marie.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_60250.06said Alfred.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_90070.06"What for?"
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_99890.06Why should we not?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_146900.06"Yourself."
Disraeli_Lothair_28180.06said Mirandola.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82060.14Say again you will be my brother: when you uttered the words I was satisfied, happy; repeat them, if you can, repeat them sincerely."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_24460.14"'Let it be right' -- the very words: you have pronounced them."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75080.12They speak with the broadest accent of the district.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97300.11seemed spoken amongst mountains; for I heard a hill-sent echo repeat the words.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58560.11"She is now living at Thornfield Hall," said Mason, in more articulate tones: "I saw her there last April.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_8430.08-- I cannot pronounce her name as you do."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56320.08-- repeat it."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97440.07Only the last words of the worship were audible.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12230.23It evidently cost her an effort to say this, after her husband had so decidedly cut short her words; but she said it in a raised voice and with audible emphasis.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57290.17self to recover our rights I" she implored, in half-stifled accents. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6820.14he repeated, with emphasis.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_18940.12"You are usually very quick to think,"—he said, evidently trying to give the conversation a gayer turn, and slowly walking along by Elizabeth’s side,—she was going for Ernst who had not heard her call.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29940.12Let me say what I should like to hear from your lips, and you will repeat it after me word for word."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3960.11She spoke to deaf ears; her mother's screams continued.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33210.11My dear Raoul, I must have misunderstood you, ' he said, slowly emphasizing every word. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9660.11Evidently relieved, she settled her head upon her pillow, looked up devoutly, and began with solemnity, although in a failing voice, " Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one God 1 Praised be his holy name," her voice died away in a gasp, and her head slowly and gently declined upon her breast. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37000.11"I do not understand you, Herr Hofmarschall," he said emphasizing every word in a menacing tone.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39440.10"Do not trouble yourself,—at last I understand you," she said, slowly, her astonishment revealing itself in the clear ring of her voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30280.10Had she done so he must have discovered on the spot how greatly she was moved by the strange words that he had just whispered to her with so much emotion in his voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_49570.08"Well, then, so be it!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64350.08" I must not speak," I said, with a sob. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46080.08How terrible it sounded !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12570.08with stern emphasis.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10570.08We will hear you farther at our leisure!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23460.08he repeated, with a drawl.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18100.08God knows, no!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_600.07The name was breathed richer than spoken. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67430.07If not, how could he have kissed those red lips that kept such heroic silence ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57890.07Charlotte's last words had roused all her princely pride. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47770.07Plain and distinct as the words were, they were the most incredible she had ever heard.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4640.05But here is an elderly lady,—she has great weight with his Highness, she has keen eyes, and a sharp, biting tongue."

Trollope_Orley_Farm_144210.24Even to do this was difficult, for Kenneby would speak in a voice so low that nobody could hear him; and on the second occasion of the judge enjoining him to speak out, he nearly fainted.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_35800.23"One minit more, and God love ye for it," said Darby, in a voice of imploring accent.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_64670.20said d'Artagnan, whose ears chafed terribly under the repetition of this word COINERs.
Wood_East_Lynne_22800.20Its blank uncertainty, its shadowed-forth embarrassments did obtrude themselves and the words of that plain- speaking creditor kept ringing in her ears: "You won't have a roof to put your head under, or a guinea to call your own."
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_33660.19"And now, Gabrielle, repeat to me the words you spoke a while ago in the carriage, the words with which you repelled me."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_138120.19Who has not experienced the sovereign power of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a terrified little being: Say nothing!
Broughton_Nancy_76840.19He is _ill_" "_Ill!_" repeat I, in a tone of consternation, for among us it is a new word, and its novelty is awful.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_42700.18I thank God for all your cheering words and ways.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_99990.18I will not speak a word to gain you.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_25950.18said I, repeating his words over slowly to myself.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_143680.17Having once spoken the word she did not care how often the repeated it.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_20700.17He so evidently spoke to God in it, and as if he were used to such speaking.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_105540.17He repeated the sentence word for word.
Collins_Woman_in_White_18270.17A word from me would have told the men which way you had gone--and I never spoke that word.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_84520.17if you wish to repeat the report, why not say so, in plain words?
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_65820.17The last words were spoken with a certain emphasis as the young wife threw a peculiar glance at her mother-in-law.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_39430.17"No," he repeated at last, and the remaining words came out slowly as they were trying to steady themselves, "but, by God, Drysdale I _can't_ take her with you, and that--" a dead pause.
Whitney_Real_Folks_11260.17She spoke those four words as if from them Mrs. Megilp could understand everything.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_123660.17And as Kenneby spoke he suited the action to the word.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_33170.17Lucie repeated the words with sharp emphasis.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_58960.17If three words spoken would reinstate me, I could not speak them at that cost.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_5220.17At length she spoke, and her words came slowly and with weight.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_86150.17"I repeat it," said Gualtier, calmly, and with deeper emphasis.
Collins_No_Name_22530.17He spoke the last words with more emphasis and energy than seemed habitual to him.
Broughton_Nancy_76020.17repeat I, in an accent of the sharpest, cuttingest scorn.
Broughton_Nancy_25260.17"_That is all!_" repeats my husband, with the slightest possible ironical accent.
Broughton_Nancy_11710.17"Are you sure," he says, with an earnest gravity and imploring emphasis, "that you understand what you are doing?
Bronte_Shirley_70960.17Would to God I were a little nearer him--could hear him speak--could speak to him!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_260440.16You must, without hesitation--" But, by a deplorable fatality, the last words, which would have completed the sense of the old workman's thought, were spoken in so feeble a voice as to be quite unintelligible.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_16370.16He perceived my anxiety quickly, and endeavored, with many a cheering speech, to assure me that these were attacks to which he had been long accustomed, and which never were either lasting or dangerous; but the very hollow accents in which he spoke robbed these words of all their comfort to me.
Collins_Armadale_87720.16"No" is the strongest word in the English language, in the mouth of any man who has the courage to repeat it often enough, and Allan had the courage to repeat it often enough on this occasion.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_145170.16"Marriage," said Meta, calmly speaking the word that he had avoided.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_95010.16The accusation could not be repeated as to his performance on this occasion, as no one could hear a word that he said.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_65430.16and St. Clare pronounced these words with a bitter emphasis, indeed.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_34850.16"Was he there," said Darby to the doctor, with a significant emphasis on the word,--"was he there to-night?"
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_15610.16A voice that had not spoken yet was heard, with a shrill, gibing accent.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_32640.15I don't think ye 're come to that yet; for if I did, by the mortial--" As he pronounced the last word, in a tone of the fiercest menace, the sound of many voices talking without, and the noise of a key turning in the lock, broke in upon our colloquy; and Darby had scarcely time to resume his disguise when Bubbleton entered, followed by three of his brother officers, all speaking together, and in accents that evidently betokened their having drunk somewhat freely.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_15310.15I turned as she spoke; her words had struck audibly upon my ear, but, lost in my revery, I could but repeat my own fixed thought,--how strange to be so situated!
Trollope_Orley_Farm_54690.15And then she recounted all those few words which had been spoken as though they had had some special value--as though each word had been laden with interest.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_107200.15Lady Mason essayed to mutter some word; but no word was audible, nor was any necessary.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_11000.15What her cousin was now telling her,--was it not a repetition of words which she had spoken to herself hundreds of times during the last two months?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_35500.15My curiosity was now excited to the utmost to know whither we were bound; and with an effort I articulated the one word, "Where?"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_34760.15"Darby," he continued, in a low, clear whisper, "Darby, see here, my boy.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_61850.15"The lady's first husband is missing," he said, with a strange emphasis on the word--"you think that he is dead?"
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_50090.15There was a struggle, brief yet terrible, then he spoke, and calmly, yet with a bitter stinging scorn.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_68780.14Gabrielle cast down her eyes without speaking; but in her silence there was an encouragement, and George understood it.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_60120.14There he stood in the midst, while like children they came to kiss his hand, to hear him speak one word, even to look on him.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_54010.14It now only remains to speak of my humble self, whose history, I need scarcely say, is far more at your service than worth the hearing.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_56170.14His whole mind was evidently still filled with the words that I had spoken to him, and still bent on discovering what those words meant.
Broughton_Nancy_50990.14she echoes, slowly repeating my words; then, seeing the expression of my face, stops suddenly.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60990.19"You spoke of a retirement, sir; and retirement and solitude are dull: too dull for you."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18980.10The dog came bounding back, and seeing his master in a predicament, and hearing the horse groan, barked till the evening hills echoed the sound, which was deep in proportion to his magnitude.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65490.07All this I did without one sound.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26010.07The sound was hushed.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20090.10she asked, advancing one step towards him, and emphasizing every word with indescribable bitterness.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22170.18Then she had suddenly started and listened: there was a sound of approaching’ horses’ hoofs ; it had been irritating Herr Markus‘ for some moments, and must now have struck her ear.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46070.17Two peasants from Lindhof, who, provided with torches, had been looking for Elizabeth, heard, as they were proceeding from their village to the forest, a loud growling at a little distance,—it sounded like an angry dog.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57150.15Before I was aware of her intentions, she advanced directly towards the Prin- cess, closing the door, so that the music sounded fainter in the distance.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47870.15I cried, my trembling voice sounding above the rattling of the wheels. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24770.15Suddenly the noise of a horse’s hoofs struck upon her ear.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29150.14Her feet trembled as though they would far rather retreat than advance, and yet it is possible that her thoughts were not of her dress nor her thin shoes, but rather of the long, narrow, leafy way before them, through which she must pass alone by his side, and of the voice that would suddenly sound in her ears with that harsh, authoritative tone almost always adopted by him when alone with her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13780.14The two men halted as at the word of command, not ventur- ing to go a step farther ; but Use was determined. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7070.11A distant noise of wheels startled her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16150.11His voice sounded hard as steel.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41580.11She listened in wonder, his voice sounded so faint and broken.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_660.11A deep breath, a halfsuppressed imprecation, reached her ear, and he sprang out upon the bridge, where be stamped repeatedly, as if to assure himself that the unfortunate foot was uninjured.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29060.10I don't mean to offend, Fraulein," I heard Use say in the distance ; " but I think it a disgusting habit.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_8080.07Now let us see if we can get you on your feet."

Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_3650.28And lastly, there came the dull noise of feet moving step by step down the stair, the muttered words, the shuffling sound of feet as they descended, and the clank of the coffin as it struck against the wall.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_44400.27From without come the sound of heavy and light wheels, the echo of heavy and light footsteps.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_33260.23Her light foot hardly sounded as it sprang down the stairs, but its faint echo was the last living sound connected with Flora Bellasys that ever reached the ear of Guy Livingstone.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_9610.22At the same instant the sounds of voices and the regular tramp of men marching were heard without.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_113080.22When the man approached, the sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he halted, the sound ceased.
Collins_Woman_in_White_112140.21A harsh rattling sound in the distance--then the hollow beat of horses' hoofs at full gallop--then the low roar, the all- predominant tumult of hundreds of human voices clamouring and shouting together.
Collins_Armadale_92070.20But one faint sound disturbed the dreadful silence--the sound of Mr. Bashwood's softly stepping feet.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_34370.19The noise of the chase sounded in ever-increasing distance, and was finally lost, but steps now sounded in the forest which encircled the hill closely, and warned the young Baroness that she was no longer alone.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_271490.19This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, approached slowly, without halt, without intermission, with a tranquil and terrible continuity.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_42340.19And, just as he spoke, a breeze brought the faint sound of galloping horsemen towards them.
Reade_Foul_Play_17700.19Soon after sounds issued from the cabin--peculiar sounds, something between grunting and snoring.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_62370.18He halted in front of the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given some oats.
Evans_Macaria_19500.18Pausing to count the strokes, she saw a light gleaming through the keyhole of her father's door, opposite her own, and heard the sound of low but earnest conversation mingled with the restless tramp of pacing feet.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_34510.18Robert started to his feet.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_62010.17Not a sound was heard save the tramp of a patrol or the short, quick cry of the sentry.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_300.17The sensible horses stood -- perfectly still, and the waggoner's steps sank fainter and fainter in the distance.
Collins_No_Name_43780.17shouted the captain, pointing to his wife's heavy flat feet as they shuffled across the room.
Collins_Armadale_31110.17One step more would have brought him to the taffrail, when that step was suspended by a sound behind him, a sound like a faint groan.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_24710.17Afar off, at what seemed like an immeasurable distance, a low, dull roar arose, a heavy moaning sound, like the menace of the mighty Atlantic, which was now advancing in wrath upon them.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_61110.17Having gone a short distance the three carts halted and the monotonous noise of their wheels ceased, and soon after they heard another, not noise, but sound of sweet, harmonious music, of which Sancho was very glad, taking it to be a good sign; and said he to the duchess, from whom he did not stir a step, or for a single instant, "Senora, where there's music there can't be mischief."
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_62830.17But in the distance sounded steps and voices which came nearer and nearer.
Harland_Jessamine_27260.17A faint echo came back from the hills.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_115600.17There followed between these two personages a strange silence, during which the sound of a slow and regular step was heard approaching.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_78600.17A dull and heavy sound was heard, and the man dropped like an ox on his face, and then turned over on his back.
Collins_Armadale_64970.17He never started; he never moved to the open window, when the first sound of approaching wheels broke in on the silence of the night.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_34160.16Almost unconsciously they listened, and became aware of some sounds in the distance, but so faint and indefinable as to permit them to rest in the belief that it must be the men-at-arms hurrying from the keep to the walls, although they were certain the trumpet had not yet sounded.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_67140.16It was in one of these reveries I sat one evening, when I heard the sounds of feet approaching along the corridor that led to my room; the clank of a sabre and the jingle of spurs sounded not like my gruff visitor.
Collins_Armadale_8450.16At the moment when the two men rose to their feet, the door leading into the next room was shaken heavily on the outer side, and a sound like the sound of a fall, striking dull on their ears, silenced them both.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_64070.16Just as the major finished speaking, the distant clatter of horses' feet and the clank of cavalry was heard approaching.
Harland_Jessamine_34460.16The wind was so loud, the roar of the pine outside the window so continuous, as to drown the sound of returning hoofs and wheels.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_46750.16Then again those louder sounds gradually retreated into distance, and the shouting voice made itself heard as the more audible sound of the two.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_14440.16Suddenly she heard the sound of a horse's hoofs behind her.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_41010.16I started in affright; it seemed to me a funereal sound,--a knell!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_111500.16They could hear the sound of the patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly.
Harland_Jessamine_35570.16She interpreted correctly the meaning of the imperfect sounds that penetrated her seclusion--the funeral psalm, the dull tramp of many feet from the front to the back of the church; the awful pause--like no other upon earth--that told the coffin was sinking to its place--the voice of prayer--the brief, reverent utterances with which the dear dust was committed to the keeping of the Lord of Life, through all the coming ages of Time--then, the muffled tumult of departure.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_48980.16She had sat thus but a moment when a slight rustling noise startled her; she remembered the rattlesnakes, and was springing to her feet; but hearing a low sound, as of some one breathing, turned her eyes in the direction from which it came, and saw, only a few yards from her, the figure of a man stretched upon the ground, apparently asleep.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_48560.15I stopped to listen; and now, in the stillness, could mark the tramp of horsemen and the clank of their equipments: again the trumpet sounded, and was answered by another at some distance.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_3620.15Scarcely had we moved off when several horsemen galloped up, and drawing their reins to breathe their horses up the hill, we could hear their voices as they conversed together.
Cooper_The_Pilot_4510.15The sounds of "we're away" were repeated by a burst from fifty voices, and the rapid evolutions of the capstan announced that nothing but the weight of the anchor was to be lifted.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_16470.15The muffled sounds of the feet of the various companies as they thundered past upon the snow, roused the old wives dozing over their knitting by their fires of spent oak-bark; and according to her temper would be the remark with which each startled dame turned again to her former busy quiescence:--"Some mischeef o' the loons!"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_51240.15But Peregrine heard the sound of the horses and the voices of the horsemen.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_44330.15She got over it somehow, and saw the light quite close, and heard the ringing of steel on steel.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_19160.15A half-muffled noise of light wheels interrupted him.
Evans_St_Elmo_1840.15"Your horse is very restless and vicious, and I could shoe two gentle ones while I am trying to quiet him."
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_41120.15Nina had come nearer the truth than she supposed, and Edith involuntarily echoed her oft-repeated words, "Poor Arthur," for she knew now what had preceded that cry of more than mortal anguish which Arthur sent to Grace after hearing first of the engagement.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_26430.15"Edith--Edith--Edith," and with each word he hugged Nina closer to him, so close that she gave a cry of pain, but he did not heed it; he hardly knew he held her--his thoughts were all for the poor, wretched girl, rising slowly to her feet.
Collins_No_Name_21270.15A sound in the room caught her ear -- the monotonous rustling of a woman's dress, now distant, now near; passing without cessation from end to end over the floor -- a sound which told her that Magdalen was pacing to and fro in the secrecy of her own chamber.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_39290.14Nordheim started at the sound of the voice, which aroused dim memories within him.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_25920.14He had finished about half his task, when he heard at some little distance from him a faint moaning.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_46360.14There was a sound of wheels outside, and Edith heard Richard as he passed into the hall.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12120.09All the clearer was heard the gurgle of the little fountain in the court-yard of the Lodge, and the low, indefinite murmur from the woods, which Elizabeth called "the sleepy rain" of the forest.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44750.09Pain and suppressed auger strove in his voice for the mastery.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_225250.28The honorable functionary had scarcely expressed himself thus, in that intonation which is peculiar to brigadiers of the gendarmerie, when a loud scream, accompanied by the violent ringing of a bell, resounded through the court of the hotel.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_226430.24The honorable functionary had scarcely expressed himself thus, in that intonation which is peculiar to brigadiers of the gendarmerie, when a loud scream, accompanied by the violent ringing of a bell, resounded through the court of the hotel.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_37020.19"Now, then, the turnkey will go," said the Skeleton, in a whisper to the Gros-Boiteux.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_40420.17"We shall hear the end of the story," said the Skeleton, breathless with suppressed rage; then, adding in a whisper to Gros-Boiteux, "Follow him to the door, and, when you see him leave the yard, cry Gargousse, and the informer is a dead man."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_3330.15"The Russian columns are in motion, Monsieur le Maréchal; the artillery moving rapidly towards our right."
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_36410.15He spoke almost inarticulately, for again it seemed the horrid words and maniac laugh of Jean Roy resounded in his ears.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_34190.14The clamorous sounds of "Le Gros Serpent!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_236270.13His larynx, contracted by violent emotion, no longer emitted any sound.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_32240.13Then stooping towards the Gros-Boiteux, he said, in a low voice: "This is a fresh 'un who might tell the turnkey."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_74420.12Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low voice:-- "Grant me three days' grace!
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_34420.11Then there came a sound unlike any I had ever heard before in the elements, beginning with a whistling sort of scream and deepening into a roar as of many angry voices, bestial and human, striving for the mastery; and then the _Petrel_ staggered and reeled over almost on her beam-ends, in the midst of a white boiling caldron of mad water.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_234870.11The sound of doors opening and shutting, the creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement of the courts, reached his ears.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_35680.10he said, in a low tone, to Gros-Boiteux.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_352000.10said Jean Valjean in a low voice.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_19730.10repeated Matthew, in a somewhat altered tone.
Broughton_Nancy_23380.10cry Barbara and Tou Tou in a breath.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_11160.09Dakie Thayne flushed up, hot, without a word, when he came out, an instant after.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_29000.09his mother cried in a loud whisper, but Hansel was not to be deterred.
Evans_Infelice_16570.09exclaimed Mrs. Palma, with a warning gesture toward Regina.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_14580.09"Would 'Le Gros Serpent' have been heard by the ears of one he wished to be deaf?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_74390.08Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- "I have a request to make of you--" "I tell you to speak loud."
Evans_Infelice_1200.08"Come here, Regina, and speak to Mr. Palma," said the soft, velvet voice behind the lattice.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_97580.05'Yes, quite.'
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_48050.05Tell me of him!"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_34740.05The best him.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_15820.05What is his name?"

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54290.20Now and then a pebble rattled from beneath their feet on the gravelled road, and the rushing of the waters of the stream sounded loud and near in the silence that followed the doctor’s last words.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41170.19And the grief at parting, that she had hitherto repressed, broke forth in her voice " I must go home, or the Dierkh^f will 252 TEE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37350.17The thought that such a voice as that might recklessly break in upon the dying hour of a human THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34460.14he added, in a reproachful tone, TEE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25750.14Robust girl as she was, clear in mind and sound in nerve, she was suddenly seized with a horror of the solitude about her, of the pale light of the golden crescent hung in the heavens, of the monotonous gurgling murmur of the rushing water.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45890.13I am perfectly sure that he is there in the midst of the crowd, safe and sound, and those stupid servants, who, by the way, pay us no attention, except to shout out some unintelligible nonsense in passing, are so frightened that they do not know their own master when they see him."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12180.13Her heart beat slightly, for she really had no right to be seen here; but the soft turf smothered the sound of her footsteps, which indeed could never have been heard above the din of the rushing river and of the sparrows twittering upon the roof.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31110.13I wished the tones could have sounded abroad over my wide moorland ; these walls re-echoed them too piercingly.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27330.10and the clear, cool air transmitted all sounds distinctly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16680.08All this did not sound at all as if be were speaking to me, the moorland child, who was just having a first dim glimpse of the realm of art and science ; but his manner of speech was far more intelligible than the long words of the Professor at the mound, and the unexpected treas urea of the " tradesman's" house suddenly had for me tin.

Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_69070.22Faint rumours reached her ears, whispered messages telling of a moonlight night, and borne over from a distance, there came to her the even sound of flowing water, the low rippling murmur of a spring.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_6050.21After an hour's interval a shout was heard from far down the river; then later the plash of oars; then a cry hailing the approaching boats, and the answer, "All safe!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_23670.20Dantes in his cell heard the noise of preparation,--sounds that at the depth where he lay would have been inaudible to any but the ear of a prisoner, who could hear the splash of the drop of water that every hour fell from the roof of his dungeon.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_23720.20Dantes in his cell heard the noise of preparation, -- sounds that at the depth where he lay would have been inaudible to any but the ear of a prisoner, who could hear the plash of the drop of water that every hour fell from the roof of his dungeon.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_52280.20I listened again; but all was still and silent, the dull splash of the river as it broke upon the reedy shore was the only sound I heard.
Collins_Armadale_28890.19This time another sound than the sound of the bubbling water answered him.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_74210.18After the lapse of half an hour, the sound of some approaching vehicle--the first sound of the sort that he had heard--attracted Arnold's attention.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_12380.17Through the languid summer air glide the harsh, forced modulations of the 'Kreisleriana.'
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_10060.17One grows dull and stupid living in one dull stupid place forever.
Evans_St_Elmo_19160.17But I have never yet made out more than sounds which faded away in the murmur of night, of words inarticulate as the bubbling of the rivers.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_26680.17Even these occasional threatening sounds ceased to be heard in that dull hour which precedes the day, at which period a listener might have sought in vain any evidence of the presence of those armed powers that then slumbered on the shores of the "holy lake."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_12340.16Once, indeed, she thought the sound of oars was again to be heard, and much nearer than before; and yet no effort of her quick and roving sight could detect the position of the boat.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_23130.16His eyelids closed unconsciously, weighed down as by the weight of lead; he saw the starry skies above him no more, and the distant noise of the pursuit waxed duller and duller on his ear; then he lost all sense and memory--he ceased even to feel the night air on his face.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_5370.15A few hours later they struggled awake at the sharp sound of the pilot's bell signaling the engineer to slow the boat.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_190210.15Caderousse was filled with wonder; the young man's words sounded to him like metal, and he thought he could hear the rushing of cascades of louis.
Collins_Armadale_170350.15Then a sound came dull and sudden, like the sound of a fall.
Alcott_Little_Women_75320.15She didn't like the new tone, for though not blase, it sounded indifferent in spite of the look.
Lewald_Hulda_34100.14The plash of the waves on the shore had drowned the sound of his approaching footsteps.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_103730.14And one dark, dreadful night he went out, and down to the river, and--Nellie followed, and found him there.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_89880.14The night was intensely dark, and they could hear nothing, when suddenly Gualtier came to the boat and got in.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_241740.13No sound was heard but the panting breath of Cephyse, and, at intervals, the slight crackling of the charcoal, which began to burn, and already sent forth a faint sickening vapor.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_75030.13Then in a constrained, mechanical sort of way she gave her her hand, spoke a few brief words of farewell, and drew back into a corner of the carriage, a darker shadow in the gloom.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_27600.13Nothing was to be heard, no sound disturbed the deep silence which reigned, but the drop, drop, drop, the dull, trickling, monotonous bubbling of the fast-increasing waters.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_48970.13There was nothing holy in its murmuring flow, and this was no holy hour in which its sound ascended to the young miner's ear as he sat there motionless, staring down before him as though harkening to some mysterious voice.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_11320.13The sound came distinctly to her through the still air, as on that day by the lake-shore when she and George ... Gabrielle did not follow out the thought.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_38580.13A flash is seen, followed by a dull sound, scarcely perceptible in the midst of the roar of the tempest.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_94200.13"And if I might make so bold--it's a dark night and the road's lonely--" he added, in a mysterious whisper.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_78610.13Scarcely were the words spoken, when a signal gun from the French boomed heavily through the still air.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_62850.12"That does not sound like imprisonment."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_60390.12Trysail!'
Collins_Man_and_Wife_53240.12Arnold was for sound.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_154080.12* The rushing of the waters and the rustling of the forests sound so strangely at night, and yet the rushing and rustling are unceasing.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_70550.12A pause of a few minutes-and a sound as if the skies were rent, tore the air; a noise, like the distant roar of the sea, succeeded; and soon after, the shouts of an approaching multitude shook the palace to its foundations.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_21130.12But ever, as they ascended, the rushing sound which had seemed connected with it, although so distant, drew nearer and nearer, until, having surmounted three of the five lofty stories of the building, they could scarcely hear each other speak for the roar of water, falling in intermittent jets.
Longfellow_Hyperion_17460.12From all the neighbouring villages, came the solemn, joyful sounds, floating through the sunny air, mellow and faint and low,--all mingling into one harmonious chime, like the sound of some distant organ in heaven.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_3640.12Thousands of brilliant sparkles danced upon the water; the rushes whispered low and mysteriously as the air breathed through them.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_87560.12Now and then, the _yodel_ of some distant mountaineer, the barking of a dog, or the soft splash of an oar, were the only sounds that broke the silence.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_33620.11She could not force a sound from her lips.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_21240.11murmurs the Princess; "gray!
Cooper_The_Pilot_49020.11"I hear the sound of oars!"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_70290.11As the hour grew later, and the salons filled more and more, the windows were opened along the terrace to give air, and I could hear the continued murmur of hundreds of voices conversing, while at times the sound of laughter rose above the rest.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_59000.11Then a low, deep sound was heard, like the suppressed accompaniment of distant music, rising just high enough on the air to be audible, and yet so indistinctly, as to leave its character, and the place whence it proceeded, alike matters of conjecture.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_43080.11Poor Sparks uttered these last words with a faltering accent, and finishing his glass at one draught withdrew without wishing us good-night.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_117870.11"Safe and sound in the bookcase," said Alice.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_86760.11And how is a man to catch a quarter of an hour?
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_9630.11Then a change in the tone of the gravel-crackling.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_20160.11she asks, in an odd, constrained sort of voice.
Evans_Macaria_30820.11Nearer and nearer came the rushing column, and lo!
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_98020.11It was too dark to see who it was; but the voice sounded like that of Philips.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_53990.11They sounded as they went, but found only deep water.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32280.09Amy Eshton, not hearing or not heeding this dictum, joined in with her soft, infantine tone: "Louisa and I used to quiz our governess too; but she was such a good creature, she would bear anything: nothing put her out.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20080.16And have you ever had any sympathy or pity for the player’s child?"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28210.09"Such entreaties, it seems to me, are always most painful to those to whom they are addressed," she answered, after a pause, in a gentler tone than she was accustomed to use to him.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8370.11You are right; they do not choose to believe in the storm suspended in the air," said the Portuguese; "but the lightning will be fierce,"—he interrupted himself, and bent so low over the young lady that she almost felt his breath upon her cheek,—" Countess, return to your quiet Greinsfeld l" he whispered in tones of gentle entreaty: " I know that there is a lightning-stroke for you too in those black clouds up there I" It sounded mysteriously,-—like a prophecy.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5210.09She paused and looked to him for a rejoinder, but he was gazing away far over the distant prospect, and said no word by way of encouragement.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28700.06It was as gentle again as if it could not scold. "

Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_9270.20The motion caused Cora to raise her hand as if to repulse him, while Alice murmured, in her soft, gentle voice, "No, no, dear father, we were not deserted; Duncan was with us!"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_14460.18There his forehead unknit itself; his voice, pitched in quite a different key from his key of business, turned also low and gentle, and soothed and secretly won the hearer by its deep, rich and pleasant modulation and variety; and his eye turned deeper in color, and, losing its keenness and restlessness, dwelt calmly and pensively for minutes at a time upon some little household object close to Susan; seldom, unless quite unobserved, upon Susan herself.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_92670.18Involuntarily some prescience of pain that would forever pursue her own life unless his were rescued lent an intense earnestness, almost entreaty, to her argument.
Broughton_Nancy_40160.18They look softer, and yet less languid, than I have ever seen them before; and there is subdued appeal and entreaty in his lowered voice.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_77400.17But he had assisted her attempt at love by no gentle word, by no gentle look, by no gentle motion.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_61690.17Entreaty, remonstrance, the assumption of hurt and injured tones, were alike unavailing.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_1310.17CHAPTER II Not all the whispers that the soft winds utter Speak earthly things-- There mingleth there, sometimes, a gentle flutter Of angels' wings.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_4920.17A little wee French midshipman of fourteen lay fearfully injured, but never uttered a sound till a physician of Memphis was about to dress his hurts.
Warner_Queechy_127250.16Words were beyond reach, but his forehead was wet with her tears; and kisses, of soft entreaty, of winning assurance, said all she could say.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_4260.15Mr. Hooper had the reputation of a good preacher, but not an energetic one: he strove to win his people heavenward by mild, persuasive influences rather than to drive them thither by the thunders of the word.
Kingsley_Hypatia_25580.15In such a one Philammon had received, from a venerable man, a mother's sympathy as well as a father's care; and now he yearned for the encouragement of a gentle voice, for the greeting of a kindly eye, and was lonely and sick at heart.... And still Hypatia's voice haunted his ears, like a strain of music, and would not die away.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_121030.15George would not become soft and mild-spoken even by a death-bed side, and it would be likely enough that the Squire would curse his heir with his dying breath.
Kingsley_Hypatia_25990.13Could he speak to her, except in tones of gentle warning, pity, counsel, entreaty?
Collins_Armadale_61590.13Miss Milroy stole a glance at him--a glance of gentle encouragement.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_6070.12cried Susan in dismay; "stop, for pity's sake, before you say words that will separate us forever.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_21920.12They are stilled, and the voices of children, of angelic tone, sing strange, unknown words--words that are "winged" (if we may use the expression), and which the Schoolmaster hears mount to heaven with gentle motion.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_18290.12After a long pause he spoke in a tone soft and gentle as a woman's, and at first in a voice so faltering that Susan, though her face was hidden, felt there was no common sympathy there, and silently put out her hand toward it.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_166820.12The paralytic motioned "Yes."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_18730.11Some new and curious thoughts stole into her heart as she watched the mother slowly rocking backward and forward, uttering a low, crooning lullaby,--the gentlest sound that ever falls on mortal ears.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_7800.11Gentle, but languid and despondent.
Collins_The_Moonstone_52590.11He murmured a soft remonstrance.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_330.11screams of infantine rage and feminine remonstrance, feet pattering, and a general hullabaloo, cut the soft recital in two.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_35250.11The stifled cough which Mabel tried to suppress because it was offensive to him, brought a scowl to his forehead, and in imagination he anticipated her answer, "I do not think I am any better."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_1600.11I thought of her as I had seen her often in the silence of the night, when, waking from some sleep of pain, she sat beside my bed, her hand pressed on my heated forehead; her low, clear voice was in my ear; her soft, mild look, beaming with hope and tender pity.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_41020.10And so Christina's gentle remonstrance was passed by.
Collins_No_Name_28350.10"Don't try to speak yet," she said, in softer and gentler tones.
Harris_Rutledge_65680.10"Wait till December," whispered Hope, just stirring his wounded, drooping wings, just trembling with a faint life that for days had seemed extinct.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_310140.10This taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_123080.10Lady Lundie tried the effect of a gentle remonstrance.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_1320.10The Gospel was that on the taking the lowest place, and when they had finished, Ethel said, "I like the verse which explains that: "They who now sit lowest here, When their Master shall appear, He shall bid them higher rise, And be highest in the skies."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_170300.09But I made my voice so soft as honey (wherefore smilest?
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_2240.09At that venerable distance, the heralds gave up the lineage in despair.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_41640.09"And yet it was a song without words," said a voice so gentle that it stole upon my imagination like a sigh.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_88100.09The officer murmured, for the death agony was still in his voice:-- "Who won the battle?"
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_1030.09I don't recollect anything in English history about Charles the Third,' said the other in a tone of mild remonstrance.
Bronte_Shirley_17280.09These shores are yet distant; they look so blue, soft, gentle, we long to reach them.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_34950.08Her name again upon his lips; again that soft, veiled, yet passionate, tone which she feared, and yet to which she listened as to enchanting music!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_47270.08Gracious words of entreaty and encouragement gushed from him in a crystal stream with looks and tones of more than mortal charity.
Reade_Foul_Play_56280.08She trembled and waited for a lull, hoping then to soothe him with soft words and tones of tender pity.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_101000.08I feel great pity for this man, though he is unknown to me," the stranger pursued, in rapid, whispered words.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_25960.06'Oh,' she said, 'take him away!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_27660.06Go on!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_132070.06.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_64860.06"Courage!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_99290.06"How do you use it, if you please?"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_139910.06"Hurrah!
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_83890.06she pursued--"why?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_27090.06"Hurrah!
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_22350.06"Well, then, he might.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_54020.06"O!

Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1630.13The lad’s face crimsoned as she poured out her reminiscences in loud, distinct tones.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36500.12"My child, I pray you, for Heaven’s sake, do not speak so loud," she gasped; "your voice goes through and through me; and what nonsense you talk!

Evans_Vashti_7510.23Her delicate hands were crossed over her heart,--her large, liquid, black eyes, raised in adoration,--her full, crimson lips parted as she repeated the '_Ave Maria_' in the most musical voice I ever heard.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_41820.22Beatrice returned his reproachful gaze with one equally reproachful, and raising her calm eyes to Heaven, said, in a tremulous voice, "You have no right to say so--least of all to _me_.
Bronte_Shirley_134870.21Her eye, always dark, clear, and speaking, utters now a language I cannot render; it is the utterance, seen not heard, through which angels must have communed when there was 'silence in heaven.'
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_241920.20said Andrea, who knew the delicate sense of hearing possessed by the walls; "for heaven's sake, do not speak so loud!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_243160.20said Andrea, who knew the delicate sense of hearing possessed by the walls; "for heaven's sake, do not speak so loud!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_130520.17When I had ceased speaking, he thankfully raised his eyes to heaven, but without uttering a word.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_131230.17When I had ceased speaking, he thankfully raised his eyes to heaven, but without uttering a word.
Evans_Beulah_22380.17The friendly stars looked kindly down upon the orphan, as she crossed the common, and proceeded toward the asylum, and raising her eyes to the jeweled dome, the solemn beauty of the night hushed the wild tumult in her heart, and she seemed to hear the words pronounced from the skyey depths: "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end."
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_3800.16She was no longer in her youth--a woman still in her thirties--but the face with the dark, flashing eyes possessed a strange fascination, and the same charm was in the voice, which, even in the whisper, was soft and deep, with a foreign accent, as if the German which she spoke so fluently was not her native tongue.
Evans_Vashti_30070.15"Which will not 'hearken to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.'
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_27190.14Browne, who never took his eyes from the paper, and seemed totally insensible to everything but the current of his own thoughts, now looked up, and fixing his dark and beetling look upon me, uttered in a deep, low tone,-- "You see, sir, the imminent danger of your present position, and at the same time the merciful leniency which has always characterized his Majesty's Government,--ahem!
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_46190.14He again struck his pickaxe into the earth, and encountered the same resistance, but not the same sound.
Cooper_Pathfinder_25110.14"Here, where they cross each other in sailing about," he added, cocking and raising his rifle; "the two -- the two.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_43550.14"Yes, that I am," asserted Adelaide, in an injured tone, while her eyes, earnest and reproachful, met the gaze of the man whose awful bitterness she could not explain.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_980.14"I don't want her to go to heaven yet," said Peter in a plaintive tone (for he regarded her as much the best possession he had), and, raising his voice, he complained to her as to one threatening to injure him, "Grandmother, you don't want to go to heaven just yet, do you?"
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_81250.14As it was she heard but of it in such words as alone could meet the ear of a great lady; she gazed at it only in pity from a far-distant height, and its terrible tragedy had solemnity and beauty for her.
Evans_Infelice_28240.14After a long while, during which she appeared absolutely deaf to all appeals, she rose, smiled strangely, and threw herself across the bed; but the eyes were beginning to sparkle, and now and then she laughed almost hysterically.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_61490.13A sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the earth.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_173430.13However unsteady his gait might be, his speech was not the speech, his eyes were not the eyes, of a drunken man.
Broughton_Nancy_67570.12There is such a depth of emphasis in his last words--such a wealth of reproachful appeal in the eyes that are bent on me--that I can answer nothing.
Bronte_Shirley_111870.12But the moment her _minois mutin_ meets my eye, expostulatory words crowd to my lips.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_2840.12His voice sank to a soft, coaxing whisper, while the large, dark eyes helped with the pleading only too effectively.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_164810.12Clement gazed at him with a puzzled but gently reproachful eye, for the tone was rude, and the words unintelligible.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_36380.11For, now, to sate her eyes with gazing on him, to hear the sound of his voice, to receive his smiles, seemed to her a joy she could only surrender with her existence.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_102530.11Single-heart sits fasting from all but grief before the door, and utters heartrending, lamentable cries to earth and heaven.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_28070.11Notwithstanding the reverence in which he was held, this saying could not be allowed to pass, and a dozen voices were instantly raised, and a dozen authentic stories told to confute him.
Cooper_The_Pilot_49840.11While these beautiful transitions were still before the eyes of the youthful admirers of their beauties, a voice was heard above them, crying as if from the heavens: "Sail-ho!
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_25000.11Exhaustion choked her voice, the vehemence with which she had spoken overpowered her, and her mother was compelled to lead her to a couch, and force her to sit down beside her.
Collins_No_Name_10480.11The grace and simplicity of her costume, the steady self-possession with which she looked out over the eager rows of faces before her, raised a low hum of approval and expectation.
Collins_Armadale_92420.11Mr. Bashwood obeyed her in tones that quavered with agitation, and with eyes that devoured her beauty in a strange fascination of terror and delight.
Collins_Armadale_98580.11he asked, with raised voice and threatening eyes.
Evans_Vashti_44440.10When she raised it, the dry, glittering eyes and firm mouth, betokened the bitterness of soul that no invectives could exhaust, no language adequately express.
Evans_Beulah_15330.10Her eyes were fastened on the picture, and, raising her hands toward it, she said in broken, indistinct tones: "I am dying down in the dark valley; oh, come, help me to toil on to the resting-place."
Cooper_The_Spy_39660.10She heard him, and fixed a gaze of tender interest on his face, but slowly shook her head as she replied,-- "It is not romance, but truth, that bids me speak.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_117410.10At last he reached that hollow which had been the scene of his encounter with Clark.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_34840.10All the beauty of her voice lent its charm to the next words that she said to him.
Bronte_Shirley_102220.10Yet again--a distinct voice passed between Heaven and Earth.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_3590.10Since the Baroness, perhaps because she has reached some rather delicate details in her medical treatise, sees fit to lower slightly her powerful voice, he can hear almost every word spoken by Stella.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_41320.10Tears shimmered yet in her eyes, but her voice was jubilant as she cried: "You come at last!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_91790.10magic of a lovely voice speaking the truths of Heaven!
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_32280.10The dark eyes looked up at him; the gravely quiet voice spoke.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_5340.10There was a certain pathos in the simplicity of the words, in the tone of his voice, in the look of his eyes.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_191620.09They started, and were horrified; and a babel of voices arose, some condemning, some excusing.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_93950.09"_ Uttered, under a scaffold, as the Italian utters it, this line is a revelation of womanhood.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_110750.09At the sound of the gold Aramis raised his eyes and Porthos started.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_68650.09It renders one weak and unsteady; nothing is fixed; the very earth under one's feet seems to tremble.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_16140.09Thinner, shriller, clearer came a far-away cry from the heights, and Ebbo thrilled from head to foot, then sent up another pealing mountain shout, responded to by a jodel so pitched as to be plainly not an echo.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_40190.09"For heaven's sake, Morel, don't speak so loud; the children are awake, and will hear you."
Reade_Foul_Play_82450.09However, after a period of general paralysis, Penfold whispered: "I heard it drop something on the shavings."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_129100.09Andrea read in a low voice -- "You are poor; a miserable old age awaits you.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71870.11Diana had a voice toned, to my ear, like the cooing of a dove.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18240.10The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27570.19The words should have been friendly, but the soft voice was sharper than usual, the tone was almost shrill.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27440.16"I know what happened then,"the girl interrupted him in a low, muttering tone, "the lonely tree was true to itself, and used the weapons which nature had provided it with."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37210.13she rejoined in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18930.10Felicitas heard her walking up and down with agitated steps, and then there came a sharp sound like the tearing of muslin.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_80.08I!
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_970.08The last word of command rang through the listening hall—six shots sounded like one—the sword whistled through the air, and twelve half-bullets rolled upon the floor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2740.07he asked hastily, but in a gentle, coaxing tone.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_350.16That was not pretty, Leo," she said ; but the tone of her voice had more of tenderness than of reproach in it.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38970.16"Too true," Henriette murmured, in a sad, subdued tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46540.15Quite true ; my uncle has had no voice whatever in the matter," Mainau said, composedly, and in rather a loud tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44650.14he said, in the tone of command which she knew so well.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5290.13asked the girl in a low voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51220.13He was angry, but he retained his self-command. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2000.13he repeated, in an agitated voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26110.13If one says A, B must come after it," she said, in a low tone; " and since I have begun I might as well unburden my- self.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12740.13he cried, in a tone of harsh command.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20880.13His voice was now as soft and gentle as it had been upon the moor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51410.13"Child, you must have long known of that," she said, in a subdued tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7590.12It was like an entreaty, and there was a kind of sob in her low voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34850.12she asked, in a faltering voice, but her form dilated proudly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47420.12I interrupted the sudden silence in a low voice. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44780.12It is true, it is all true, every word 1" she murmured, as she arose.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36090.12I heard you come," she said, in a low voice, breathing quickly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27490.12the old man con* tinued, in a louder tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13730.12a voice suddenly called after us in a rather displeased tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8480.12Gisela thought she could perceive vexation in his faltering tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8240.12"You are no more prudent than the rest, Countess," he said in-a low voice. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9800.12She completed her sentence hurriedly and almost in a tone of entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51190.12He, who——" She paused, as if terrified at the passionate tone of her own voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45460.11"No, Rudolph, it is love,—a love which first awoke in my heart,—does not this sound strangely,—when I saw in your angry eyes, and heard in the tones of your voice, how you detested cruelty and injustice!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32570.11but her low, deprecatory tone spoke of a kind of eager terror as it were.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15230.10How can I answer you," she re- plied, in a low tone, " since you do not believe that any girlish mind is strong enough to take warning from example ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_59800.10Pray open the door, Herr Doctor I" he said, in a clear tone of command.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11630.10Then, in a low tone, he said, " This Schnwerth is dangerous ground for tender feet, whether from India or from our German nobility.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41800.10Terror almost choked her utterance; hut, nevertheless, she once more took courage, and raised her head proudly, with an air of command.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51530.10She had spoken in what was almost a playful tone, until Kitty once more hastened towards the door, and then the authoritative word came like a command from her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18820.09He had a deep, agreeable voice in speaking, but his words were uttered with grave deliberation and emphasis, as if he prized them himself exceedingly. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_550.08The duchess also had approached.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55260.08she said, in a startled tone. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5540.08she asked, in an uncertain voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50120.08Do not leave me so," he said, in his gentlest tones. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46300.08Charlotte fol- lowed us. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30490.08Suddenly the crowd separated.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36740.08Despise the ' childish babble' if you will, Herr Clau- dius," he said, his sonorous voice was sharp as a knife, " it refreshes and strengthens me, and thousands of other true Christian souls.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57550.07she slowly asked, in a hoarse, changed voice. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19650.07she interrupted him, in a tone of ' gentle entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50650.07cried Mainau, in a tone of passionate anguish.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1850.07the little man mur- mured, with something like terror in his tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16930.07she asked, hei voice sounding sharp and stern.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50340.07I begged and implored in a beseeching tone that moved even myself.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41930.07The sound of the shrill laughter startled Hollfeld, and he looked up.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22440.07He vanished for eight days, and no one knew whither," he said, after a short silence, in an under-tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31600.07He spoke harshly, and his voice had a sharp, hard sound. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19610.07You belie yourself, madame," he cried, in a tone of almost humble entreaty. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1480.07I must upbraid you, Baron Mainau," she said, with a Blight tremor in her voice. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_760.07the miller hissed in his ear, in a strange, muffled tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44250.06I heard her gasping voice say again, " Use, put the necklace upon the child's neck.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10640.06But the fear of hearing still harsher explanations from the house keeper sealed her lips.

Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_51080.23The Attorney-General then in a low tone requested that all the witnesses might leave the court.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_8420.23"No," replied she in a low, mournful tone.
Cooper_The_Spy_42820.22said Colonel Singleton, in a subdued voice, after pausing a moment in respect for the agitation of the witness.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_23230.22"I didn't come out of kindness," she replied, in a low tone for his ear alone.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_17560.21"It's locked--go back;" and Arthur's voice had in it a tone of command.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_51190.20The dull quiet tone in which he had spoken hitherto was changed now; his voice grew sharper and louder, as he replied: "On mine, you mean?
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_13390.20Her tone, as she uttered the exclamation, had a plaintive and really exquisite melody thrilling through it, yet without subduing a certain something which an obtuse auditor might still have mistaken for asperity.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_43540.19"Miss Walton," he replied, in a low tone, "when can I make any return for all your kindness?
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_34530.19He never ought to hear an irritable word, or a sharp tone; but he does hear them, I must own with grief and shame.
Harris_Rutledge_56980.19Phil, bending down, was whispering in low tones to his companion in the pink domino.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_19160.19"Yes, you were right," said Gabrielle, in the same low tone.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_70060.19said he, likewise in a low tone.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_69930.18In a slight hollow of the ground before us stood a number of horsemen, who conversed together in a low tone as we came up.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_13720.18Mrs. Jones was over almost every hour, or if she did not come Tim was sent to inquire, his voice very low and subdued as he asked, "How is she now?"
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_11450.18"And as since that which you have said is too clear to require any explanation," replied d'Artagnan, in a low voice, "I beg you to follow me."
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_128350.18he repeated, in a low, soft voice, with a deep solemnity in the tones that was far different from his usual manner.
Collins_Armadale_144700.18The villainous smile died out of his face, and his voice dropped again distrustfully to its lowest tones.
Wood_East_Lynne_65220.18she rejoined, in a sharp tone of reproach; "you know too well.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_68760.18said Gabrielle, with gentle reproach in her tone.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_23820.18"Oh yes," replied Agnes, in a low voice.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_144590.18"I don't think she loved me much," said Ellen in a low voice.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_28200.18she said, in a sharp tone of command very unlike her.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_74550.18In a low, thrilling tone she said, "No, Walter, but you may."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_18200.18in a low tone of ineffable tenderness.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_77220.18"There he is," said Valentine, in his usual tone of voice.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_12690.18"That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice.
Harris_Rutledge_72650.18"I know it, sir," I replied, with what steadiness of voice I could.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_111520.18cried she, with tones of thrilling tenderness, "you are everywhere!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_153130.18"It is true," said he, in so low a tone that he could hardly be heard.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_112220.18cried she, with tones of thrilling tenderness, "you are everywhere!"
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_56070.18"No," said Zillah, in a mournful voice; "none nearer than Naples."
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_38170.18cried Zillah, in indescribable tones.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_46730.17I thought no one would ever speak to us again," she continued in a low tone, and with rising color, "and I have had kind, helpful friends sent to me already."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_52600.17But his voice had resumed that formal tone which ever and anon mingled strangely with its low, deep tenderness.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_77850.17At the lower end, which had been arranged for the work-folk specially, a group conversed in whispers, and with clouded looks.
Cooper_The_Pilot_8480.17The captain dropped his voice to tones of cautious respect, as he replied: "'Tis only Mr. Gray.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_25400.17"I have really been unwell," replied Gabrielle, in a low voice.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_245270.17"She'd do it, too," said Thenardier in a low tone to Brujon and the ventriloquist.
Harris_Rutledge_17810.17"Perhaps not, Arthur, perhaps not," answered his companion, in a low voice.
Harland_Alone_71150.17Her voice too, was tremulous, and had a cadence that might have been mistaken for tenderness.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_9450.17I beg pardon," with a tone half-mocking.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_137670.17exclaimed Villefort in an agitated tone; "at what number?"
Collins_No_Name_11880.17she said, in low, mournful tones -- and sighed bitterly.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_20920.17When the general voice proclaims him other than they believe, am I to regard what is in itself a mystery?
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_35550.17And the low dove-like tone and tender calm face continued upon Ebbo the spell that the chant had left.
Evans_Infelice_19780.17She did not reply; and bending toward her, he said in a low, winning voice entirely unlike his usual tone: "Lily, trust your guardian."
Warner_Queechy_119950.16"Dear Hugh," she said--and if ever love and tenderness and sympathy could be distilled in tones, such drops were those that fell upon the mind's ear,--"can't you look up at me?"
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_6270.16The voice was low and musical, and there was something in its tones which in a measure quieted Mary's fears, but she took good care to keep at a respectful distance.
Harland_Jessamine_14490.16Her eyes were darker, her voice a tone lower, her smile a trifle subdued all the evening, for the incident that preceded the festivities.
Evans_Beulah_21750.16Every word of the conversation, which had been carried on in anything but a subdued tone, reached her, and though the head was unbowed as if she had heard nothing, her face was dyed with shame.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_3920.17Mrs. Reed was rather a stout woman; but, on hearing this strange and audacious declaration, she ran nimbly up the stair, swept me like a whirlwind into the nursery, and crushing me down on the edge of my crib, dared me in an emphatic voice to rise from that place, or utter one syllable during the remainder of the day.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78240.06Hush!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2220.06"Well, who am I?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39700.17The two children, born in the Karolinenlust, are " "Hush, hush, not a word more 1 Do not sav it aloud !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46160.09The soothing calm in his face and bearing produced its effect ; the clamour was instantly stilled.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15830.06alone suited to his lungs.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1170.06I am blocking the Way."

Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_26180.17The stentorian tones of the auctioneer, calling out to clear the way, now announced that the sale was about to commence.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_5670.17He offered his arm to the nurse; the creaking of the baggage-wagon, starting on its journey, was heard outside, and the shrill roll of the drums was renewed in the distance.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_159750.17It was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation.
Bronte_Villette_6100.17When summoned by her nurse she rose and departed very obediently, having bid us all a subdued good-night.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_44970.16cried the Manager, as, in spite of the distance, rumours of the wild clamour and uproar were borne distinctly over to them.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_13500.15said the Colonel, in a voice that was a little husky,--for he had finished off the evening with an extra glass or two of "Madary," and had a somewhat rusty and headachy sense of renewed existence, on greeting the rather advanced dawn,--"Sally!"
Reade_White_Lies_74270.15cried Sergeant La Croix, in a stentorian voice, standing erect as a poker, and swelling with importance.
Collins_No_Name_138950.15Magdalen followed him, on her way back to the servants' offices, having heard nothing in the conversation of the slightest importance to the furtherance of her own design, from the first word of it to the last.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_50990.14She had no time, however, to learn what it meant, for, with a shout like a war-whoop, Johnnie's voice was heard below, and presently, as it were, driving his little brothers and sisters before him, Johnnie himself came blundering up-stairs at full speed with Crayshaw on his back.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_118720.14It was a strange, sweet sound, weak, but sweet beyond all words--a long, faint, lingering tone, which rose and died and rose again, bearing away the souls of those who heard it into a realm of enchantment and delight.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_87420.14And the Dons rose to depart, while the bishop went on maundering,-- "Farewell!
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_40190.14He seemed engaged in a mental conflict for a minute or two, and then he asked, in a low tone, "What is your price?"
Collins_No_Name_119310.13Before she had been long engaged in this way, she was startled by the sound of his voice, affrightedly calling her back.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_54910.12The pikemen of course were not to be outdone in loyalty; so they shouted with stentorian lungs "LONG LIVE THE DUKE!"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_13700.12"Half a moment, if you please, sir," said Moulder; and then he exclaimed with stentorian voice, "James, the dinner bill."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_23830.12She could hardly bear to listen to what her uncle was saying, and yet she caught greedily at every word; she could not bear to believe him, and yet she could not but distrust, now, what the pastor had taught her.
Harland_Alone_73190.12called the stentorian lungs of the footman; and Mrs. Read was as white, as if the hand of Death had smitten her.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_51850.12Her voice, borne afar over the wide waste of waters, died out in the distance, but brought no response.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_4560.12"Hush!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_12790.12"Jeer at me,--jeer at me!"
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_93050.12"Hush, hush!
Broughton_Nancy_9850.12Barbara has risen.
Broughton_Nancy_30840.12Barbara says, "Hush!"
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_25690.12Friedmund, anxious to prove that his new honours were not to alter his home demeanour, was drawing on a block of wood from a tinted pen-and-ink sketch; Ebbo was deeply engaged with a newly- acquired copy of Virgil; and their mother was embroidering some draperies for the long-neglected castle chapel,--all sitting, as Master Gottfried loved to have them, in his studio, whence he had a few moments before been called away, when, as the door slowly opened, a voice was heard that made both lads start and rise.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_73580.11The general said nothing until we approached the hotel where he resided, in Dover Street; and then he inquired, in a low voice, whether I could bear more excitement.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_20590.11The sounds of the conflict, amid which Darby's own voice rose pre-eminent, told me that all were too busily engaged to waste a thought on me.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_51260.11Two voices were heard to parley at a distance, great excitement prevailed up in Parliament, excepting in the mind of Anastasia, whose notion of her own part in this ceremony of hiding was that she must keep her little feet very even and close together beside Johnnie's great ones; so she took no notice, though hasty footsteps were heard, and a voice spoke underneath, "Whereabout can young Mortimer be?
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_78480.11It contained these words only: "NURSE--The old Romance will tell you all about me.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_92490.11I must urge on you what I bade you come to hear.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_3710.11As their excitement rose, their voices went down.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_99370.11The conversation between Cephyse and her sister was here again interrupted by a terrible uproar, above which sounded the sharp, shrill noise of Ninny Moulin's rattle.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_31440.11"Do as he bids you," said I; while at the same moment I sprang to my legs, and gave a loud, shrill whistle, the last echo of which had not died away in the distance ere it was replied to.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_36050.11Lady Gertrude could feel for others; twice had her carriage been announced, but she heeded not the summons; a third came just as Caroline had ceased to speak, and silently she rose to depart.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_22960.11Her voice had called me back to life.
Reade_Foul_Play_56550.11No, no, no, no; I didn't say read 'em _out_ with those stentorian lungs.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_32200.11cried the stentorian lungs of Kirkpatrick.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_130720.11Your conduct to me is cruelty itself; I will bear it no longer.
Evans_St_Elmo_58540.10"Mr. Hammond, your magnanimity unmans me; and if your words be true, I feel in your presence like a leper and should lay my lips in the dust, crying, 'Unclean!
Trollope_Orley_Farm_142660.10And then the one leg fell from the other, and he rose to do his grandson's bidding.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_5910.10He was too shrewd not to know this; but he was too quickly galled ever to bear to have it recalled to him.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_16240.10There was something in his voice not altogether strange to Dorothy, but she could not tell of whom or what it reminded her.
Harland_Jessamine_1900.10he heard Jessie say, softly, when dinner was announced.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_247530.10"Hush, gentlemen, here is the court; let us go back to our places."
Bronte_Villette_96380.10If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance.
Cooper_The_Prairie_28040.10Paul paid little or no attention to this reply, more than half of which was lost in the distance, but pursuing the humour of the moment, he called out in a stentorian voice to the naturalist to answer to his name.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_6940.10Smothered voices were next heard, as though men called to each other in the bowels of the earth, when a sudden light flashed upon those without, and laid bare the much-prized secret of the place.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_75220.09Tom stepped upon the block, gave a few anxious looks round; all seemed mingled in a common, indistinct noise,--the clatter of the salesman crying off his qualifications in French and English, the quick fire of French and English bids; and almost in a moment came the final thump of the hammer, and the clear ring on the last syllable of the word _"dollars,"_ as the auctioneer announced his price, and Tom was made over.--He had a master!
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_44150.09There was that in the widow's voice which made him get up, and he rose slowly to his feet.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_47320.09The doctor was the first to speak, in hushed and awe-struck tones.
Bronte_Villette_97470.09I asked in a whisper, half awed by the deep pervading hush.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_8410.44At the same instant his ear caught a sort of indistinct sound on the stairs, followed by the measured tread of soldiery, with the clanking of swords and military accoutrements; then came a hum and buzz as of many voices, so as to deaden even the noisy mirth of the bridal party, among whom a vague feeling of curiosity and apprehension quelled every disposition to talk, and almost instantaneously the most deathlike stillness prevailed.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_8450.42At the same instant his ear caught a sort of indistinct sound on the stairs, followed by the measured tread of soldiery, with the clanking of swords and military accoutrements; then came a hum and buzz as of many voices, so as to deaden even the noisy mirth of the bridal party, among whom a vague feeling of curiosity and apprehension quelled every disposition to talk, and almost instantaneously the most deathlike stillness prevailed.
Bronte_Villette_67060.20"Bon jour, mes amies," said he, in a tone that somehow made amends to some amongst us for many a sharp snap and savage snarl: not a jocund, good- fellow tone, still less an unctuous priestly, accent, but a voice he had belonging to himself--a voice used when his heart passed the words to his lips.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_166280.18When I again heard the rustling of a silk gown, for the first time, the sound quite affected me.
Collins_Woman_in_White_67010.16Nobody had disturbed her, no faint rustling of the silk dress had been audible, either in the ante-room or in the passage.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_32810.16Now was heard again the clamour of the music, and the measured tramp of the military escort issuing from the church door.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_25130.14The rustling sound of a silk dress had caught her ear.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_15480.12Every nerve in Richard's body had been quivering with curiosity to see that letter, but now, when the coveted privilege was within his reach, he refused it; and, little dreaming of all he was throwing aside, answered indifferently: "No, I don't know that I care to hear it.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_14400.12In a few moments the door was opened, and the rustling of a woman's dress was plainly audible in the hall.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_42390.11At the unusual noise which prevailed, added to the aspect of two strange men in the room, the poor idiot turned herself towards the wall, as though striving to hide from them, uttering all the time the most discordant cries and moans.
Warner_Queechy_93390.09The trade in nothings going on over the said green silk was very brisk indeed; but disregarding the buzz of tongues near at hand Fleda's quick ears were able to free the barrier and catch every one of the quiet tones beyond.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_286000.09Speech being a breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_79740.09Scarcely had they entered, when she motioned to Franz to assume the seat of honor.
Bronte_Villette_16080.09Imprimis--it was clear as the day that this swinish multitude were not to be driven by force.
Kingsley_Hypatia_65350.07He seemed to start lamely enough, in spite of the exquisite grace of his voice, and manner, and language, and the epigrammatic terseness of every sentence.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_42790.07he grumbled, in a deep gruff voice; "any young scamp prowling after the maids shall have sore bones for his trouble."
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_11090.06Oh no.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_74000.06Patent them all."
Reade_Foul_Play_51290.06"But think!"
Bronte_Villette_46460.06Do tell me about him.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_38900.10A charming plan I The Schn werth stables are full of horses, and there is a long row of comfortable and handsome carriages in the carriage-houses ; but the baroness prefers to leave the house on foot, because " "At the moment when I left the salon, resolved to go to- night, I ceased to be one of this family, or to own the right to avail myself of " "Because," he continued his sentence in a slightly raised voice, without heeding the interruption, " it would be such a heart-breaking, tragic piece of news to circulate in the capital to- morrow morning.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13240.05look at them !

Hugo_Les_Miserables_199130.21He pronounced the word enormous the second time with a jeering swell of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an enormous, ENORMOUS dog."
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_17790.18A suppressed exclamation of exultation answered the utterance of that name, and without further parley the arms of the countess were strongly pinioned, and with the quickness of thought the man who had first spoken raised her in his arms, and bore her through the thickest brushwood and wildest crags in quite the contrary direction to the encampment; their movements accelerated by the fact that, ere her arms were confined, the countess, with admirable presence of mind, had raised to her lips a silver whistle attached to her girdle, and blown a shrill, distinct blast.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_49460.17The struggle was not abandoned; it grew, on the contrary, in force and intensity, though carried on in quieter fashion; and now the city of R---- had the satisfaction of hearing that an echo of its discontent had sounded in the capital, an echo which quickly spread throughout the land.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_2900.15"Passe-partout," cried Mr. Fogg again, but without raising his voice; "this is the second time I have called you," said Mr. Fogg.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_148910.14"Wherefore hear now the benediction of him whom your clemency has raised from despair.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_11010.12"At the schoolroom as before (Up May Lane), or else next door (As last Monday) at the Boar, Hear the Wigfield lion roar.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_22560.10Voices varied, nature speaking, Call to me on every side; Friends and kindred give their greeting, In Thy sunshine I abide.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_45620.10He rowed lustily, but did not speak a word.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_7680.10Peg muttered something in Irish, but far too low to be audible.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_53130.09And with such intentions I hurried onwards, eager to reach my quarters.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_66470.09The long peals of sound rose up and spread far away over the city.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_5790.09The governor had noticed the old man's gestures as he repeatedly put his hand to his mouth, and while his wife, Orion, and the widow were besieging the merchant with questions, he whispered a few words to one of the slaves.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_31670.09When Passe-partout heard what the voyage was going to cost, he uttered a prolonged "Oh!"
Evans_St_Elmo_27530.09I saw him shoot Mr. Dent, and heard all that passed on that dreadful morning.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_271880.08Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_13390.07Disappointment was strongly painted on his handsome face; but, ere there was time for second thought, another voice was heard grumbling at the door of the saloon.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_149940.05"But who says so?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1070.09Several ladies fainted, and countless voices called out for a physician.

Harland_Jessamine_10750.14A stately young pine he remembered as a favorite of Jessie's, filled the air with its solemn sighing, while he awaited the answer to his knock.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_8280.14Lady Lundie put her ear close to them, and heard the dreadful question reiterated, in the same dreadful words: "She is Anne Silvester--as I was.
Alcott_Little_Women_14430.13She was rather a favorite with `old Davis', as, of course, he was called, and it's my private belief that he would have broken his word if the indignation of one irrepressible young lady had not found vent in a hiss.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_57600.13"It is an unmaidenly thing to do, certainly," said Lady Glencora very slowly, and in her lowest voice.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_10490.13Provoked with himself for his want of discrimination, in imagining Lady Helen so different to the being she really was; more than once discovering she did not speak the exact truth, or act with the steady uprightness he demanded, his manner became almost austere; and, in consequence, becoming more and more afraid of him, Lady Helen sunk lower and lower in his esteem.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_70350.13(Never had Lady Janet's voice sounded so sternly in Mercy's ear as it sounded now.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_62150.13But as to Lady Janet, he echoed the warning words which Julian himself had spoken to Mercy.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_94050.12How long she knelt she never knew, but she was roused by Anne's voice in a frightened sob--'My lady, my lady--come away!
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_84090.12Then, brokenly, in trembling tones, and not looking up, came Lady Helena's answer: "God pity him and you--he is not mad."
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_41910.12"I must ask you to spare me half an hour, Lady Audley," Robert answered, in a low voice.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_23830.12"Speak lower; if the lady under the bowsprit hear such treason against her favorite, I'll not answer for her good-will.
Collins_Woman_in_White_85920.12When I heard that astounding answer, all my thoughts were startled back on the instant to my parting with Lady Glyde.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_108540.11Ethel and Meta could, at first, have found it in their hearts to be frightened at those thundering shouts, but the young ladies were usually of opinions so similar, that the louder grew the cheers, the more they laughed and exulted, so carried along that no cares could be remembered.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_155880.11"It does not sound too romantic," said Meta.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_164860.11But it is mere childishness, and I must scold her for it."
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_42670.11A sharp pang of pain wrung her as she thought of the time when even the chance utterance of her name would become an unpardonable offense in Lady Janet's house.
Wood_East_Lynne_63340.10he inquired, in a tone of deep agitation.
Wood_East_Lynne_143980.10uttered Lady Isabel, startled.
Wood_East_Lynne_109270.10I say," dropping his voice, "did you know Lady Isabel?"
Marryat_Peter_Simple_28880.10inquired the captain and his lady, both in a breath.
Longfellow_Hyperion_9420.10"What young lady with the soft voice?"
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_57400.10(And it is exactly Lady Helena's voice that speaks.)
Disraeli_Lothair_48980.10The cheer was repeated, and there were steps about her tent.
Bronte_Shirley_77480.10We never quarrel--I don't call him harsh--he never scolds me.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_110800.10"Mr Fitzgerald will be there," said Lady Glencora, altering her voice altogether, and speaking in that low tone with which she used to win Alice's heart down at Matching.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_30650.10But there was still that tone in his voice which Lady Carbury feared.
Longfellow_Hyperion_9410.10But pray tell me, who was that young lady, with the soft voice?"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_18090.10said a hard voice, in tones that boded but little kindliness.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_82390.10The lips of Lady Helena moved, but no sound came from them.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_31800.10(Lady Janet lowered her voice to a whisper.)
Broughton_Nancy_55680.10I still speak in a subdued and snuffly voice, but the wrath has gone out of me.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_48110.10"Come in," cried Lady Audley, in her liveliest tone.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_14220.09Words of love, delicious music, together conspired at the moment to bereave Jacques Ferrand of his reason; and, half frenzied, he exclaimed: "Mercy, Cecily, mercy!
Wood_East_Lynne_148830.09And she never spoke of it; had the resemblance been to any one but Lady Isabel she would have talked of it freely.
Wood_East_Lynne_100330.09cried Lady Isabel, her tone one of bitter mockery more than anything else.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_50390.09"Except Chancellor of the Exchequer," said Lady Glencora in a low voice.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_83250.09In a husky voice, stifled in his scarf, he asked for Lady Helena.
Evans_St_Elmo_9670.09Those sweet, low, timid tones, "I am sorry for you," had astonished and mortified him.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_33700.09"It is about Lady Chetwynde," said Zillah, whose voice had died away to a whisper.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_119540.09Lady Lundie uttered a scream that rang through the room.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_25980.09The lady shook upon her companion's knees as she heard that boding sound.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_13580.09Then there are incomplete sentences, such as, 'Fell in with Lady Mary Chetwynde--'" "I know all that, but I have two ways of accounting for it."
The_Eichhofs_Clean_20850.08said Julutta Wronsky, indicating with a scarcely perceptible motion of her fan two ladies who were passing.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_29960.08But the people, who were in the cheering humor, cheered Hannah and the justices, and then cheered Ralph again.
Bronte_Villette_7760.08I had heard that very voice ere this, and compulsory observation had forced on me a theory as to what it boded.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_69370.08Lord Badenoch had listened with a different temper to the first breathings of Lady Mar on her favorite subject.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_80320.08The crew then hoisted the yard with the same rapidity and clatter as when they lowered it, all the while keeping silence as though they had neither voice nor breath.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_65820.06"Oh, Meta is different!
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_27390.06"I don't think so.
Wood_East_Lynne_76320.06"You should not have gone off at all, Afy."

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_26420.28So many loathsome animals inhabited the prison, that their noise did not, in general, awake him; but whether abstinence had quickened his faculties, or whether the noise was really louder than usual, Edmond raised his head and listened.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_26490.28So many loathsome animals inhabited the prison, that their noise did not, in general, awake him; but whether abstinence had quickened his faculties, or whether the noise was really louder than usual, Edmond raised his head and listened.
Cooper_The_Prairie_53950.25Though these several movements were made amid outcries, and a clamour, that likened the place to another Babel, they were executed with incredible alacrity and intelligence.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_30220.19By this almost all the Christians were on board, and the Moors, who were fainthearted, hearing their captain speak in this way, were cowed, and without any one of them taking to his arms (and indeed they had few or hardly any) they submitted without saying a word to be bound by the Christians, who quickly secured them, threatening them that if they raised any kind of outcry they would be all put to the sword.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_56150.16So profound was the stillness in the Coquette, that the rushing sound of the water she heaped under her bows was distinctly audible to all on board, and might be likened to the deep breathing of some vast animal, that was collecting its physical energies for some unusual exertion.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_39890.14cried Hawes suddenly; "his reverence is here, and he is not partial to the jacket."
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_16880.14Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this venerable witch-lady had heard Mr. Dimmesdale's outcry, and interpreted it, with its multitudinous echoes and reverberations, as the clamour of the fiends and night-hags, with whom she was well known to make excursions in the forest.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_75750.13The hallooing got louder and louder; the whole wood seemed to echo; her heart beat high; lights glimmered nearer and nearer, hares and rabbits pattered by and startled her, and pheasants thundered off their roosts with an incredible noise, owls flitted, and bats innumerable, disturbed and terrified by the glaring lights and loud resounding halloos.
Reade_Foul_Play_65260.12Presently a negro in white cotton, with a face blacker than the savages, stepped forward and hoisted a board, on which was printed very large, ARE YOU Having allowed this a moment to sink into the mind, he reversed the board, and showed these words, also printed large, THE _SPRINGBOK?_ There was a thrilling murmur on board; and, after a pause of surprise, the question was answered by a loud cheer and waving of hats.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_60490.11Her breathing quickened tremblingly.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_83890.10Edward Anderson himself fell in Norman's way in the street, and was shrinking aside, when a word, of not unfriendly greeting, caused him to quicken his steps, and say, hesitatingly, "I say, how is August?"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_22760.10"I like to hear you speak thus, and I augur well for Edmond from it."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_22820.10"I like to hear you speak thus, and I augur well for Edmond from it."
Evans_St_Elmo_62900.10The sound of the fall, the crash of a china vase which her hand had swept from the table, echoed startlingly through the silent house, and aroused some of its inmates.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_62830.10To this assertion there were but three dissenting voices, and one dissenting opinion.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_32940.10Amyas stopped, crouched down beside a gun, and laid his ear to the rampart, whereby he heard clearly, as he thought, the noise of approaching feet; whether rabbits or Christians, he knew not, but he shrewdly guessed the latter.
Cooper_Pathfinder_12130.09"It sounds more like the outcries of devils than anything that can come from the throats of Christians and men."
Bronte_Shirley_119750.09"I dare say he can be harsh as a saw-edge and gruff as a hungry raven."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_41530.05If I had not known you, I should not have been in prison."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_38080.05"What!
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_71270.05what damage it did!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_221570.05It is the rolling-mill.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_7230.05"Print!"
Broughton_Nancy_43260.05how has he been?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18130.14It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in every lonely chamber; though it originated but in one, and I could have pointed out the door whence the accents issued.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34350.10I should like to know how that lonely, girlish voice sounded on the moor," she said.

Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_50590.24Snap told me," said Mr. Parkinson, "this morning, that they would prove issue of Stephen Dreddlington, and issue of that issue, as clean as a whistle--that was his phrase."
Cooper_The_Pilot_34750.19The cockswain, after bending his looks along the whole line of the eastern horizon, gave utterance to a low and stifled groan; and then, striking the staff of his harpoon violently against the earth, he pursued his way along the very edge of the cliffs, muttering certain dreadful denunciations, which the conscience of his appalled listener did not fail to apply to himself.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_283250.17CHAPTER IV MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a strangely satisfied and terrible cry, funereal in sense and triumphant in tone: "Long live death!
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_33570.15Chapter XVII 'Her welcome, spoke in faltering phrase.'
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_34210.14So deepe this Sound, that though it speake, It cannot by a Sence so weake Be entertain'd.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_37130.12Had Mrs. Livingstone been less indignant, there would undoubtedly have ensued a clamorous call for hartshorn and vinaigrette, but as it was, she started up, and confronting the young man, she exclaimed, "How dare you ask such a thing?
Alcott_Work_7220.12The sound of approaching steps disturbed her reverie, and, recognizing them, she plunged into the heart of the story, reading as if utterly absorbed, till a shadow fell athwart the page, and the voice she had expected to hear asked blandly: "What book now, Miss Devon?"
Bronte_Villette_92420.12And presently the good lady proved that she was indeed no corpse or ghost, but a harsh and hardy old woman; for, upon some aggravation in the clamorous petition of Desiree Beck to her mother, to go to the kiosk and take sweetmeats, the hunchback suddenly fetched her a resounding rap with her gold-knobbed cane.
Cooper_The_Prairie_28730.12CHAPTER XVII Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight With a new Gorgon--Do not bid me speak; See, and then speak yourselves.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_76370.11Then suddenly seemed to ring in his ears - "Gyf the world prove harsh and cold, Come back to the hedde of gold."
Harland_Jessamine_47670.10What a godsend a big linen sheet would be to the good President, on a day like this, with a listener who is _hors du combat_ with a hoarse cold!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_179740.10The results of your denunciation will be stifled, because they are calumnious.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_161490.10Art stifling him; now change all his linen.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_96850.10He grew pale and murmured an incoherent denial.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_8590.09The incidents were in harmony with the abject physical tone of the company.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_12260.08"You struck me with that hand," said he, in a deep, distinct voice, as though every word came from the very bottom of his chest.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_63110.08As we came near, the very distinct denunciations that issued from the thicket proved pretty clearly the nature of the affair.
Cooper_The_Prairie_60370.08he repeated, in a voice that scarcely issued from his chest; "a man is surely safe among his kinsmen!"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_19660.06Yet it was with you.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_68600.06'Yes.'
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_61220.06I told him.
Collins_Armadale_4410.06"Yes," he said.
Alcott_Little_Women_15620.06"No, I don't."

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_228970.23"Valentine," said the count, "summon up all your courage; still the beatings of your heart; do not let a sound escape you, and feign to be asleep; then you will see."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_230190.20"Valentine," said the count, "summon up all your courage; still the beatings of your heart; do not let a sound escape you, and feign to be asleep; then you will see."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_262170.16"Yes; you have called Haidee your sister,--let her become so indeed, Valentine; render her all the gratitude you fancy that you owe to me; protect her, for" (the count's voice was thick with emotion) "henceforth she will be alone in the world."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_262730.16"Oh, I entreat you," exclaimed Morrel in a low voice, "do not speak another word, count; do not prolong my punishment."
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_530.15There was indeed a sudden confusion in the house, and, before the uncle and niece could rise, the door was opened by a prosperous apple-faced dame, exclaiming in a hasty whisper, "Housefather, O Housefather, there are a troop of reitern at the door, dismounting already;" and, as the master came forward, brushing from his furred vest the shavings and dust of his work, she added in a more furtive, startled accent, "and, if I mistake not, one is thy brother!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_164960.12Morrel listened to catch the last sound of her dress brushing the branches, and of her footstep on the gravel, then raised his eyes with an ineffable smile of thankfulness to heaven for being permitted to be thus loved, and then also disappeared.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_167510.11resumed Morrel.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_168410.11resumed Morrel.
Collins_Woman_in_White_64480.10"Most assuredly," said the Count's quiet voice behind me.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_216340.10Morrel went out, called Baptistin, and whispered a few words to him.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_209790.10Come, Morrel, it is not like a soldier to be so bad a judge of courage.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_217450.10Morrel went out, called Baptistin, and whispered a few words to him.
Collins_Woman_in_White_47820.10The Count only smiled and repeated the soothing application.
Collins_Armadale_118270.10The coarseness of the voices startled him, whether he comprehended the words or not.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_193400.09Baptistin, without answering, approached the count, and presented the letter.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_60550.08returned Trysail, whose voice the rattling of the throat had already nearly silenced "I have had misgivings--but no matter.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_50350.06"'Oh!'
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_14910.06asked she.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_66070.06'Still, he was a lover?'
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_60660.06"Certainly, Beatrix; haven't I said so?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_56400.06Morrel!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_261270.06"Oh, yes; oh, yes, I do indeed repent."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_23980.06"Do you think not?"
Bronte_Villette_35160.06"Not at all.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_9620.06Now for the portrait."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14850.14that was all I said; whereat she half laughed, half cried, and we both went into the parlour.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33990.11"It seems to—day that I am repeatedly tempted to appeal to the past," said Franz, in a bitter tone, interrupting the momentary silence.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2180.12And then, for half an hour, she talked to those men,—about what I could not hear,—I could only hear deadly terror in the tones of her voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3930.10The Minister uttered a half-suppressed oath.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17060.09You have never heard a reproach, or one word of warning from me, but since you use this hour in reviling me, I must tell you for whom I have ruined ‘myself.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30090.06What do you mean ?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_110.06[#] Pronounced Brook.

Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_66380.17She felt half inclined to cry, and half inclined to get up and box his ears.
Broughton_Nancy_58070.16"If _you_ are, I am," I reply, with a half-smothered sob.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_41640.15Presently he heard a half-stifled sob.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_115380.15Then, interrupting himself, he exclaimed: "Was it the half hour that just struck?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_39540.15Thus he remained sobbing and lamenting for more than an hour, when he was roused by hearing the coarse voice of Cut-in-Half calling upon him to descend.
Bronte_Shirley_92930.15If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_10880.14"I'm half inclined to join your church that I may call you sister."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_28940.14"Half-past three, old fellow," answered Diogenes, looking at his watch.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_67090.14cried he, and they joined the fugitives, and for a half-hour pressed forward as fast as was possible through the choked streets, Dennis merely saying an encouraging word now and then.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_62290.14Amid breathless expectation, Dr. Arten stepped forward, took down the envelope, and read in a loud, trumpet-voice-- "DENNIS FLEET."
Harris_Rutledge_34470.13he exclaimed; "we have been hunting you high and low for a good half hour."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_19970.13I stopped and listened, and was about again to move on, when a half-stifled sob fell upon my ear.
Evans_St_Elmo_48350.13I sit alone, amid the mouldering, blackened ruins of my youth; will you not listen to the prayer of my heart, and the half-smothered pleadings of your own, and come to me in my desolation, and help me to build up a new and noble life?
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_191510.12Presently he spoke half to them, half to himself, "Oh," he said, with a subdued but concentrated rapture, "I feel it buoyant.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_36680.12said Susanna, quickly and in a half-stifled tone, and I saw Klaus take her in his arms impetuously and kiss her.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_22420.12Then Florida said absently, in the husky murmur to which her voice fell when she was strongly moved, "Yes, I see it all, how it has been," and was silent again, staring, as if a procession of the events and scenes of the past months were passing before her; and presently she moaned to herself "Oh, oh, oh!"
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_25100.12The low, level, monotonous voice spoke the dreadful words, the small, light, glimmering eyes were fixed immovably upon her with a look, half-contemptuous, half-compassionate, in their depths.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_83150.12He grunted out some half-pronounced threat as they moved him; but he did not stir, and his wife knew that she was again mistress of the room for the next two hours.
Reade_White_Lies_3850.12"* * The French peasant often thinks half a sentence, and utters the other half aloud, and so breaks air in the middle of a thought.
Wood_East_Lynne_136100.12Half-past six!
Alcott_Little_Women_7430.12"We shouldn't enjoy ourselves half so much as we do now.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_25910.11Franz whispered to me, and of his few, sad words--half hope, half fear, all anguish--I cannot repeat the echo.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_78650.11I know not how incoherently the tale was told; I cannot say how often I interrupted my own recital by some appeal to the past,--some half-uttered hope that she had seen the passion which burned within me.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_51670.11In the adjoining room, he could hear his wife's voice raised shrilly, and the cries of half a dozen Legards.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_10490.11I cried with the bravest scorn, for she looked so kind and gentle; "there never was horse upon Exmoor foaled, but I could tackle in half an hour.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_13460.11She dropped the half-formed scarf from her hand; and listened, without daring to draw her breath, to the deep-toned lamentations.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_26030.11"Mr. Maldon," said Robert Audley, with a tone which was half-mournful, half-compassionate, "when I looked at my position last night, I did not believe that I could ever come to think it more painful than I thought it then.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_176950.10'I didn't speak half-a-dozen words.'
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_7260.10she exclaimed, in half-stifled accents.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_288010.10he murmured, in a half-stifled voice.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_82590.10Here goes--high, low, Jack, and the game."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_60690.10cried half a dozen voices together.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_55150.10cry half a-dozen voices.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_42880.10asked half-a-dozen trembling voices.
Kingsley_Hypatia_85690.10It wanted half an hour of the time of her lecture.
Kingsley_Hypatia_12330.10roared half a dozen voices.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_81070.10she whispered in half-stifled accents.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_253940.10After some minutes' silence, Djalma, shaking his head with an expression of tender pity, said to the half-caste, in his mild, sonorous voice: "Why betray me thus?
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_92740.10half a dozen shrill cabbies called, before and behind.
Alcott_Little_Men_26370.10Jack she did not like, because he was afflicted with warts and had a harsh voice.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_500.10The hours which we passed together in the interchange of reciprocal sentiments, the kind beaming of his looks, the thousand sighs that he breathed, the half-uttered sentences, all conspired to rob me of myself.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_10920.09The bitterness of spirit pervading his profession of faith escaped, indeed, in a great measure his girlish hearer, who listened half amazed, half indignant--listened and wondered.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_119940.09"There is no society about him," said Miss Sophia; "he don't say two dozen words a day."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_285960.09said the half-caste, in a hollow voice, and with a bitter smile: "I shall be there."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_40900.09If the matter is discussed, there may be half a dozen other projects started."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_5680.09But one look of his expressed as much as half-a-dozen sympathetic sentences of other people.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_41860.09asked half-a-dozen voices: for the Don was a general favorite.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_112850.09"Ah, really," said Monte Cristo in a half-stifled voice.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_113540.09"Ah, really," said Monte Cristo in a half-stifled voice.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_8260.09Did you hear the echo of a piece in the mountains, half-an-hour since?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28800.06yes.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17340.09It was the last blow hurled at the man who had been thrust from the sunny heights of a most distinguished position into the deepest abyss of degradation,—there were no more to come, and not one that he had received had had power to affect him as he was affected by these words from those rosy lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10430.08"The genuine, valid, last will and testament of Dom Enriquez was borne across the sea by the restless wanderer, who breathed not a word in reply to the Mar- quise’s declaration," he said in a solemn tone, putting his hand into his breastpocket and drawing forth a paper. "

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_99270.28I hid myself in the one nearest to the path Villefort must take, and scarcely was I there when, amidst the gusts of wind, I fancied I heard groans; but you know, or rather you do not know, your excellency, that he who is about to commit an assassination fancies that he hears low cries perpetually ringing in his ears.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_99720.28I hid myself in the one nearest to the path Villefort must take, and scarcely was I there when, amidst the gusts of wind, I fancied I heard groans; but you know, or rather you do not know, your excellency, that he who is about to commit an assassination fancies that he hears low cries perpetually ringing in his ears.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_38390.12[15] It was my companion who told me its name, whispering it into my ear; and I listened eagerly, having heard of its author in every key of praise.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_36800.12Such were his thoughts when the words of Thusa ha measg rung from Lady Mar's voice.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_39540.12I was curious to see the sable skins they catched; but I could never speak with any of them; for they durst not come near us; neither durst we straggle from our company to go near them.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_27850.12At last I heard the sound of a key moving in a lock, the bang of a door, and then came the noise of many voices as the footsteps mounted the stairs, amid which Bubbleton's was pre-eminently loud.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_11550.12As for me, who am of the whole blood of the whites, it is befitting that I should die as becomes my color, with no words of scoffing in my mouth, and without bitterness at the heart!"
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_35610.11He accordingly advanced to Governor Shute and addressed him in so low a tone that none of the bystanders could catch a word of what he said, although the sudden change of His Excellency's hitherto cheerful visage betokened that the communication could be of no agreeable import.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_31970.11Those words spoken, would have been terrible, almost awful in one so young--though a brief interval would have sufficiently calmed both the hearer and the speaker, to satisfy that they were _but words_, and that self-destruction is never breathed, if really intended: but _written_, the writer at a distance, imagination at liberty, to heighten every terror, every reality; their reader a young loving girl, utterly ignorant of the world's ways and temptations, and the many errors to which youth is subject, but from which manhood may spring up unsullied; and so believing, almost crushed by the belief, that her brother, the only one, her own--respected, beloved, as he was said to be--had yet committed such faults, as would hurl him from his present position to the lowest depth of degradation, for what else could tempt him, to swear not to survive it?
Warner_Queechy_121180.10The child's voice fell a little from its querulousness towards the sweet key in which the questions had been put, but he gave utterance to a very decided wish for "bread and butter."
Collins_Woman_in_White_110990.10I heard the key worked violently in the lock--I heard a man's voice behind the door, raised to a dreadful shrillness, screaming for help.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_7350.10--bang, bang, bang; but the echoes alone responded to his call, and the sounds died away at length in the distant streets, leaving all as silent and dreary as before.
Bronte_Villette_90960.10Oh, to approach this music nearer, to listen to it alone by the rushy basin!
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_93790.10but the gleam of his heavy eyes was such that I durst not contradict.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_20570.10I did not altogether like the way in which she said it with a sort of dialect, as if my speech could be laughed at.
Wood_East_Lynne_134310.09"There was no harm in it," shrieked Afy, with a catching sob of temper.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_33400.09She believed that he had told her, indirectly, of himself, when he had spoken those dreary syllables--"the game is changed.
Collins_Armadale_17110.09At those last words he became suddenly silent, as if for once his well-guarded tongue had betrayed him.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_16700.09"Clifford," said she,--still too agitated to utter more than an abrupt sentence,--"Clifford has a home here!"
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_22040.09But Beatrice saw nothing and heard nothing except the scene before her, with its grand inspiration and her own utterance of its praise.
Collins_No_Name_46330.08Her voice faltered softly, and she put the lock of hair, with a languid gentleness, to her lips.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_105130.06be satisfied!"
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_81920.06Was it you?"
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_93410.06"What for that?"
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_14880.06"It was a fancy of hers to come, and they let her have her way.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_21150.06Why do they?
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_16220.06'May I ask what he was?'
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_7410.06"What do you mean?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_127330.06I have but one portmanteau."
Cooper_The_Spy_34030.06Have you the countersign?"
Cooper_The_Pilot_18660.06Dillon!
Broughton_Nancy_81320.06"I _was_ there!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56290.23THOSE words did not die inarticulate on your lips.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10690.15These words fell like the knell of doom - "All those top-knots must be cut off."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14030.15There is something in that," I soliloquised (mentally, be it understood; I did not talk aloud), "I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words as Liberty, Excitement, Enjoyment: delightful sounds truly; but no more than sounds for me; and so hollow and fleeting that it is mere waste of time to listen to them.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85800.14I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4000.13Mrs. Reed soon rallied her spirits: she shook me most soundly, she boxed both my ears, and then left me without a word.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_88370.12The succeeding words thrilled me strangely as he spoke them: especially as I felt, by the slight, indescribable alteration in sound, that in uttering them, his eye had turned on me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55680.12"With what an extraordinary smile you uttered that word -- 'very well,' Jane!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37840.10he reiterated; and he went over the syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84310.09St. John called me to his side to read; in attempting to do this my voice failed me: words were lost in sobs.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10790.08It came.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43690.08I'll pledge my word on it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12880.08I should not have suspected that it meant she was dying; but I knew instantly now!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38810.20279 posule,--—shc opened her lips, but they refused to utter a word.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_90.12’TWould be the first time in my life," were the words upon the lips of the other; but a terrible crash interrupted him, and the voice of the speaker was silenced effectually.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2250.12Not another word did Madame’s White lips utter.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41250.11Did those tight-drawn bloodless lips ever utter the curse?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_32200.11She listened breathless to every word uttered by that tradueing tongue.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16730.11There was the sternest disapproval ex- pressed in these few words uttered gently but most decisively.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12690.07Madame uttered a short contemptuous laugh.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26160.19Stammering some inarticulate words, she covered her face with her hands and burst into tears.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22460.17As the last words were uttered, Liana, as if accidentally, looked towards him ; he encountered a glance so cold, so chilling, that it might have come from an utter stranger.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24420.17With much pains I uttered a few formal words of acknowledgment.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25840.15The tone was as gentle and entreating as that in which the words ‘ Be kind!’ had been uttered yesterday.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15200.14And then, in a voice that trembled with pain, he told her the sad story of his drowned brother, and described the utter agony with which he had accompanied -the betrayed man through the castle and along these paths.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46420.14The unthinking girl promised all that he asked,—and in addition vowed solemnly that no human being should hear one word from her lips until she could proclaim her proud secret to the world.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32630.1419& yet I could not utter a word.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51440.14"And was that really all that was said, word for word?"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45350.14But she opened her lips in vain to repeat after him the words which he uttered so solemnly, with the most profound emotion.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27430.13A joyous shout of exultation that would hardly be suppressed rose to his lips, and his heart throbbed as though it would escape from his bosom.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_920.13that he was about to utter died upon his lips.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54640.13This one word came almost like a groan from her lips.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24240.13"The final word must be spoken.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47130.13It irritated him to hear from those lips the name he so loved. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7970.12No word of song was ever allowed to escape my lips at the Dierkhof, and, oh !
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43820.12Nevertheless she made one attempt, and uttered a loud cry.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25760.11Undeserved as was the reproof, it sounded very cutting from the boy's lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40210.11not one word from Fraulein Fliedner, who knows every- thing, but who would rather die than reveal what she knows.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26110.11She could not utter a sound; but all the anguish, the compassionate pity, that filled her soul shone in the brown eyes raised to his in a mute entreaty more eloquent than words.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14870.10How strange that a few whispered words should so thrill one to the very core of one's being Suddenly there lay before us the " Karolinenlust."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47300.10I have never since known him to touch the keys of the piano, I have never since heard him utter a hasty word or seen him use a violent gesture.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16710.09And now the utter despair which the listening man had hitherto suppressed and crushed down, asserted itself and wracked his frame.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34270.08And then there came a time when she grew less restless,—’tis true she glided past him as though he were a shadow, a nothing,—she never lifted her eyes when he approached her and addressed her in the tenderest tones of entreaty,—it was long since she had spoken to him, and still no words passed her lips; but she no longer beat her tiny hands against the window-bars, tearing her hair, and calling with shrill shrieks upon those who passed through the forest without, enjoying all the sweets of liberty.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10070.08she asked, in sharp reproof. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14200.08"I shall not accompany you."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41970.08With these words she turned to go.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32580.08I leaned towards him and softly uttered his name.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17410.08into a bitter, scornful laugh. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16260.08he asked, emphasizing his words strongly.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7660.08He was evidently mortified and painfully embar- rassed, while the old man's lips and eyelids quivered with suppressed laughter, and Herr von Rdiger had another attack of coughing. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37830.07For myself, it would be a waste of words to open my lips to you in self-defence."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48810.07With these words the breathless listening figure awoke to life.

Hugo_Les_Miserables_254800.26Napoleon had died uttering the word army, Lamarque uttering the word country.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_47930.23Erna uttered no word of reproof, but this utter selfishness inspired her with horror.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_132840.23And she must herself have believed this at the time; otherwise she would have died rather than have uttered those words.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_26130.23"But how shall I attempt to describe to you what I felt while reading that--oh, it is a dreadful word to utter!--that will, each word of which breathed only care and solicitude for my future welfare?
Evans_Inez_10790.23He struggled in vain to utter words of comfort; they died away in whispers, and, with a slight moan, the spirit returned to the God that gave it.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_35420.22She, however, caught the words, "And I was fool enough to promise not to say a word.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_126910.22"Ernestine," said Johannes, "those are the dearest words you could utter.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_155840.22One by one, the frantic words of her prayer died away on her lips.
Bronte_Shirley_36240.22Sympathizing was the word on Caroline's lips, but it was not uttered.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_24760.22There was evidently a desire to speak, to utter some inquiry, but he looked on that sweet face upturned to his, and the unspoken words died in an inarticulate murmur on his lips.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_8190.21"Hedwig," he murmured, and his lips quivered; for a moment the strong man was unable to utter a word.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_21050.21He could swear positively to the name she had uttered, to the words both had spoken, if he were dying.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_63810.21Insensibly the words of supplication died away on Julian's lips.
Bronte_Shirley_18470.21had been on Caroline's lips hundreds of times before, but till now she had never uttered it.
Collins_Woman_in_White_60110.21he cried suddenly, as the last cadence of those noble Italian words died away on his lips; "I make an old fool of myself, and only weary you all!
Cooper_The_Pilot_34670.20Once or twice, Dillon ventured to utter a word or two; but a stern "silence" from the cockswain warned him to cease, until perceiving that they were approaching the cliffs, he made a final effort to obtain his liberty, by hurriedly promising a large bribe.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_71180.20Hilda's voice was low but impassioned, with a certain burning fervor of entreaty; her words had become words almost of prayer, so deep was her humiliation.
Reade_White_Lies_29430.19Now if the mayor had not snubbed Picard just before, he would have uttered those jocose but true words aloud.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_7040.19Every word that she spoke seemed to be a mere formality, the precursor of the real words which she wished to utter.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_46880.19He had hitherto spoken mechanically, rather than as one conscious of what he uttered, or whose feelings had any connexion with his words.
Collins_No_Name_108610.19But no further reference to the marriage would pass her lips, and without an other word she abruptly left the room.
Harris_Rutledge_61370.19The words died on my lips.
Collins_No_Name_8000.19Those were the only words he had spirit enough to utter.
Collins_No_Name_103150.19Ere long words fell by ones and twos from her lips; words whispered in her sleep, growing more and more co ntinuous, more and more articulate, the longer the sleep lasted -- words which seemed to calm her restlessness and to hush her into deeper repose.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_21960.18"And how," said Seyton, hesitatingly and laying deep emphasis on each word he uttered, "if by a miracle, a chance, an almost impossibility, your daughter were still living, tell me how you would support such a discovery."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_12040.18Laura had bent down and kissed her father's lips as the spirit left the body; but she did not sob, or utter any ejaculation; her tears flowed silently.
Evans_St_Elmo_16110.18These words were uttered aloud, and the echo of her own voice seemed sepulchral; then the chill silence again fell upon her.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_5720.18Fernand opened his mouth to reply, but his voice died on his lips, and he could not utter a word.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_37380.18To describe the tone of utter despair, the recklessness as to the effect her words would produce, is impossible.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_135100.18In such affairs as these very little, as I take it, depends on the words that are uttered.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_90290.18To them the interest was already made before the first word came from his lips.
Harland_Alone_44280.18The words arose unexpectedly to her lips.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_27050.18It was the first word of censure Aunt Barbara had uttered, and Ethelyn felt it keenly, as was evinced by her quivering lip and trembling voice, as she said: "Don't auntie, don't you scold me, please.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_241760.18These words were uttered in so mournful a tone that their real meaning did not escape Albert; he felt his heart beat, and taking his mother's hand within his own he said, tenderly, -- "Yes, you will live!"
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_11530.17Her lips uttered no word of entreaty; but her eyes besought him earnestly, pleading for the doomed fountain.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_101890.17At these words, which came quite unexpectedly to him, Denys leaned his head on Margaret's high chair, and groaned aloud.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_44170.17The dying general murmured a few words more, and turning his face inward, breathed his last sigh on the bosom of his last friend.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_96450.17What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone,--whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!
Wood_East_Lynne_117890.17The words were uttered in a spirit of remorseful wailing.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_24420.17No answer to words of love, such as she had never uttered to him before, nor thought she could utter.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_3530.17"Leave me," cried she, in an inarticulate voice, "or see me die."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_216960.17Then he slowly uttered these words, "Who is now dying in your house?
Bronte_Villette_31970.17I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_64380.17She looked almost like a spirit, and, without uttering another word, she left the room.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_10540.17He inquired his way to a neighboring church, and every word of prayer, praise, and truth fell on a glad, grateful spirit.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_103080.17She felt his lips move with the promise he could not find voice to utter; and she thanked him with that old child-like smile that had lost nothing of its light.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_35020.17As I nodded in acknowledgment, Duchesne turned slightly around, and I saw in his eyes he had overheard the words, though uttered in a mere whisper.
Cooper_The_Spy_34350.17The sergeant ceased to utter aloud, but the motion of his lips continued, and a few scattering words of prayer were alone audible.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_26650.17Caroline's breaking heart had lost that proud spirit which, a few days before, would have called a haughty answer from her lips.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_313270.17Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other side of an abyss: "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43580.12" My plaidie to the angry airt, to share it a'," rang in the ears of my excited girlish fancy.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_177670.20Albert had often heard--not from his father, for he never spoke on the subject, but from strangers--the description of the last moments of the vizier of Yanina; he had read different accounts of his death, but the story seemed to acquire fresh meaning from the voice and expression of the young girl, and her sympathetic accent and the melancholy expression of her countenance at once charmed and horrified him.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_178680.20Albert had often heard -- not from his father, for he never spoke on the subject, but from strangers -- the description of the last moments of the vizier of Yanina; he had read different accounts of his death, but the story seemed to acquire fresh meaning from the voice and expression of the young girl, and her sympathetic accent and the melancholy expression of her countenance at once charmed and horrified him.
Evans_Vashti_68840.19For some seconds Salome did not speak, for the shadow on his countenance fell upon her heart, and looking reverently up at him, she thought of Richter's mournful _dictum_,--"Great souls attract sorrows, as mountains tempests."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_176590.16Then from time to time there came to him an Albanian who said something to which I paid no attention, but which he always answered in the same tone of voice, either 'Kill,' or 'Pardon.'"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_177530.16Then from time to time there came to him an Albanian who said something to which I paid no attention, but which he always answered in the same tone of voice, either `Kill,' or `Pardon.'"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_27050.13Barton approached nearer to him, and muttered something in a low, mumbling tone, to which the other seemed to pay little if any attention.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_13650.12repeated the Chouette, in an undertone, without paying the least attention to Tortillard's supplication, and putting her shoes off hastily.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_640.12Can you not fancy the strident emphasis on the last syllable, revealing how often the poor materialist had been victimized before he made a stand at last?
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_3130.11I can pay for--" began Christina; but her father squeezed her arm, and drowned her soft voice in his loud tones.
Harland_Jessamine_56900.11She was his blithe, lovesome witch again.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_115750.11I have a claim to be heard--and after what you have said to me, I _will_ be heard!"
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_26740.10answers the sympathetic toll-gatherer.
Broughton_Nancy_65470.10Our murmuring must per force be stilled now, though indeed, were we to _shout_ our discontents at the top of our voices, there would be small fear of our being overheard by the master of the house, he being the boundlessly deaf old gentleman who paid his respects at Tempest on the day of Mrs. Huntley's first call, and insisted on mistaking Barbara for me.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_150510.08Then the waiter, still speaking with suppressed and melancholy voice, suggested that there was some port left.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_311250.06What do you want with him?"
Evans_Beulah_32130.06"Analects from Richter."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_150660.06"At Yanina?"
Collins_Man_and_Wife_64730.06No!
Broughton_Nancy_26040.06"Oh, all right!"

Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_11340.19Mr. Townsend had assured him that it would meet every emergency; but for once Mr. Townsend was at fault, for with the sound of Ethelyn's angry voice ringing in his ears, Andy lighted his tallow candle and creeping up to his chamber knelt down by his wooden chair and sought among the general prayers for one suited "to a man and his wife quarreling."
Broughton_Nancy_69420.19He has helped _himself_ down; and, without a word or a look to any of his fellow-travellers, has thrown himself down on the heather at Mrs. Huntley's feet, and is relieving his mind by audible animadversions on our late triumphal progress.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_3630.16"But, my dear fellow--_Saffron Hill!_--Low that--devilish low, 'pon my soul!
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_24240.14Nevertheless, aunt, my resolve stands firm, for I love Susanna Mattoni, love her with all her childish faults, which are hardly to be called faults.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_66730.14Jack Brimblecombe read the daily prayers, and the prayers before a fight at sea, and his honest voice trembled, as, in the Prayer for all Conditions of Men (in spite of Amyas's despair), he added, "and especially for our dear brother Mr. Francis Leigh, perhaps captive among the idolaters;" and so they rose.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_11380.12--"Yes," answered Oswald, "you have conjectured what will suit the present disposition of my soul;" and he pronounced these words in so dolorous an accent, that Corinne was silent some moments, not daring to speak to him.
Wood_East_Lynne_4740.11"Plenty of sticks, Jasper, that it may burn up quickly," said Mrs. Hare, in a pleading voice, as if the sticks were Jasper's and not hers.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_275010.11"If I allude to that little innocent playfulness on your part, my dear sir," said Rodin, in his softest tone, approaching the two sisters with a wriggle which was peculiar to him; "if I allude to it, you see, it was suggested by the involuntary recollection of the little services I was happy enough to render you."
Harland_Jessamine_18360.11Dear, _dear_ Roy!
Harland_Alone_36840.11I do not know what suits your voice or taste."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_57030.10shrieked the Chouette, in a strangling voice.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_17430.10I have never heard such a laugh as Susanna Mattoni's.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_9600.10These words of the "one-eyed's" reminded the Schoolmaster of an unpleasant affair, and, altering his tone and language with the Chouette, he said, in a surly tone: "Yes, I was getting tired of being all by myself with these honest people.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_38800.09His heart would be heavy did he believe his red warriors paid him so little respect!"
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_56110.09he said, with slow emphasis, 'long drawn out'; "he's gane, is he, honest man?
Harland_Alone_58860.08Josephine burst forth with a torrent of invective: which Ida did not stay to hear; nor did she see either of them again for two days.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_700.08Then, discreetly ignoring what Bassett had said last, and lowering her voice almost to a whisper, she said, hurriedly: "You should not blame him for the faults of others.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_15470.06"The Chouette does not know you?"
Reade_White_Lies_43440.06"No."
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_15490.06I _don't_ know."
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_38210.06"Of course she'd be to hum,--where else should she be!"
Evans_Beulah_15990.06May I?"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_78590.06"How is that you know all about it?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26160.12Something gurgled and moaned.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74690.06"What then, Die?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_69420.06"Not you.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1470.10In a. voice choked by sobs her husband promised what she asked.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32950.18I should not like to have the Herr Forester for a father confessor——" A loud burst of sobbing, that sounded almost like a stifled shriek, interrupted Sabina’s whispering.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33010.11Only stifled sobs ensued.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30720.11My stifled emotion almost chokes me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12320.11Just hearken to these two children 1 they really be- have as if the little one's throat were to be cut !"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3760.10I know, papa, that I cannot serve God more truly than by living for mankind, by devoting all my powers " A shrill burst of laughter interrupted her; it echoed hoarsely from the walls. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2810.10the young man could say no more, his voice choked in his throat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45000.09Without, the tempest beat against the walls ; but within, it died away into a low, sobbing moan.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22660.09His voice sounded half stifled, as if it were choked with anger and disappointment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45050.06I will tell you what would have happened.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12970.06he exclaimed hoarsely.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30330.06He was interrupted.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7410.06Be still I" Use ordered, in stifled accents. "

Reade_White_Lies_33550.19A sob and a moan as of a creature dying in anguish answered him.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_25490.18is it for this I came up from my little peaceful place in the west [_sob, sob, sob_]?--General, George, dear; Lucy, my love, I'm taken bad.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_58950.18"Oh, yes, it is," said Tom, his voice cut short by gasps, the remains of the sobs.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_10010.18A low and interrupted moan was the voice of her heart's anguish, and it did not fail to move the sympathies of many who mistook their involuntary virtue for a sin.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_25660.17Lucy's pathetic tones, which were fast degenerating into sobs, were agreeably interrupted.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_43400.17Here sobs prevented her utterance; but after a short pause, with many vehement lamentations over the virtues of the dead, and imprecations on his murderers, she related that as soon as the woful tidings were brought to Monktown kirk (and brought too by the Southron, who was to take it in possession!)
Alcott_Little_Women_62460.17Then just as the gangway was about to be withdrawn, it suddenly came over her that a whole ocean was soon to roll between her and those who loved her best, and she clung to Laurie, the last lingerer, saying with a sob... "Oh, take care of them for me, and if anything should happen... " "I will, dear, I will, and if anything happens, I'll come and comfort you," whispered Laurie, little dreaming that he would be called upon to keep his word.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_25510.16The words came with quiet, gasping sobs, for in his hour of bitterest anguish, Arthur had never for an instant wished HER gone--the little blue-eyed creature clinging so confidingly to him and asking if he would miss her when she was dead.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_94610.16But she had locked herself in with Lucy, and he could hear her violent sobs, and Lucy's faint voice entreating to know what was the matter.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_25980.16Her voice died out in a choking sob.
Collins_No_Name_80790.15A dull sound of sobbing -- a sound stifled in her handkerchief, or stifled in the bed-clothes -- was all that caught his ear.
Kingsley_Hypatia_89120.15The shrieks had died away into moans; the moans to silence.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_98450.15We have been parted long enough; let me be with you until--" again her voice choked and died away.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_19660.15Cries were soon heard, and then moans, which someone appeared to be endeavoring to stifle.
Harris_Rutledge_27470.15Then the laugh dies, as some winding of the river brings suddenly before us a picture too grand to be looked at with trifling words and laughter on our lips.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_9060.15She had struggled to the very last to speak calmly, but now sobs, the more convulsive because the more suppressed, rose choking in her throat, and rendered the last words almost inaudible.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_31180.14But he heard Gerard sob, and sob, and Margaret moan.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_158870.14she exclaimed, in so plaintive an accent that it seemed to stifle a sob; "really, you pain me."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_159670.14she exclaimed, in so plaintive an accent that it seemed to stifle a sob; "really, you pain me."
Broughton_Nancy_47460.14Though I stand in the free clear air of heaven, I could not feel more choked and gasping were I in some close and stifling dungeon, hundreds of feet underground.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_55800.14[Illustration: The Chouans 327] "Not so," said another, in a low, determined voice; "this is a surer weapon.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_17820.14But still there was no answer; and Mrs. Miller thought she could distinguish a low, stifled sob.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_151210.14"CORBLEU--I am more your friend than you think--for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to the cardinal have had your throat cut!"
Alcott_Work_26670.13She took the stage with some difficulty, for the unevenness of the turf impaired the majesty of her tragic stride, and fixing her eyes on an invisible Thane (who cut his part shamefully, and spoke in the gruffest of gruff voices) she gave them the dagger scene.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_42900.13It would be worse than death, for I did have a faint hope--" He was interrupted by an audible sob, and turning, saw Annie with her face buried in her hands, weeping as if her heart would break.
Alcott_Little_Women_51340.13Whatever his feelings might have been, Laurie found a vent for them in a long low whistle and the fearful prediction as they parted at the gate, "Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next."
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_44810.13but his words were scarcely heard, for the page had bounded within the extended arms of Nigel, had clung so closely to his heart, he could feel nothing, see nothing, save that slender form; could hear nothing but those deep, agonized sobs, which are so terrible when unaccompanied by the relief of tears.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_103630.12I fancied that I still heard faint moans, and imagining that the unfortunate jeweller might not be quite dead, I determined to go to his relief, by way of atoning in some slight degree, not for the crime I had committed, but for that which I had not endeavored to prevent.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_35700.12To Bernhard it seemed stifling.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_69840.12gasped Annie.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_128240.12The friar moaned.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_107830.12sobbed Bertha.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_7640.12well may she be blessed--well may the saints stoop to greet her," murmured Christina, with strangled voice, scarcely able to control her sobs.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_128850.12He said this in short disconnected phrases, often pausing to gather voice, but forced to resume, by her inquiring looks and pressure of his hand.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_76740.12Suddenly, a dull, heavy sound, like that of a falling body, was audible just above her head; she thought she could even distinguish a stifled moaning.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_27260.12Guy's lips worked and moved, but no sound came from them, except an irregular catching of the breath and a gasping rattle in the throat.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_319070.12The grandfather, trembling at having so inopportunely introduced Andre Chenier, resumed precipitately: "Cut his throat is not the word.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_45750.12A stifled moan of agony came from Dr. Lacey's parted lips, and he asked in a voice which plainly told his suffering, "Oh, why was I suffered to go thus far?
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_21710.12It took much entreaty on the part of Andrew and much weeping and kissing on the part of Wilhelmina to move the heart of the terrified Gottlieb.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_92840.11he said, in a sort of stifled sob.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_77830.11said Guy, in a stifled voice.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_25680.11Thérèse almost chokes with laughter.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_190710.11he cried; but choked with anguish, could say no more.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_151450.11He was down, but only for a moment; then he appeared again choking and gurgling.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_32790.11But sobs choked him, and he could not utter more.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_36940.11He was choking, and could hardly gasp out the words.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_144090.11His voice was stifled by sobs.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_25790.11"Just now, when you used the word pity, I did not interrupt you; but now that you repeat the word, or at least one quite as bad, I must tell you quite plainly that I feel neither pity nor compassion for you, but quite a different--Stay, I will try and explain myself as well as I can.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_16760.11An expostulation followed, but it was indistinct; and it became lost amid a low peal of laughter, which was hardly distinguishable from the gurgle of the tiny whirlpools outside.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_88150.11Her voice died away in a sob, though without tears.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84690.09It was as if I had heard a summons from Heaven -- as if a visionary messenger, like him of Macedonia, had enounced, "Come over and help us!"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21680.10"I pray you to believe," she continued, "that I had not the faintest suspicion that you were in the house at the timel" The word singing awoke the remembrance of Felicitas‘ tears in little Anna's mind.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11590.20The kitchen was so quiet that the buzzing of an imprisoned bee and his thumps against the window-pane were distinctly audible.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_11100.08Yes, the maid, Sanna," the bailiff affirmed, in a loud tone of voice that cut off what she was about to say. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43690.08I must assign you some place now whether I will or not, and I have twelve bridesmaids already,—you see yourself I cannot want a thirteenth——" She paused with a faint exclamation.

Collins_The_New_Magdalen_16920.20She sank lower on the cushions--her eyes closed--the monotonous ticking of the clock on the mantelpiece grew drowsily fainter and fainter on her ear.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_25990.19Not improbably, he beheld Miriam through so dim a medium that she looked visionary; heard her speak only in a thin, faint echo.
Collins_Armadale_42650.17The changeless influence of one monotonous pursuit and one monotonous habit of thought was next expressed in the dull, dreamy self-absorption of his manner and his look while his daughter was speaking to him.
Collins_Woman_in_White_110010.16The rapid, regular thump of their feet grew fainter on my ear, and I calculated by the sound that I was far enough in advance to take to the fields with a good chance of their passing me in the darkness.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_22360.13Ever as they went, the noise of the water grew fainter and the noise of the engine grew louder, but just as they stepped from the stair, it gave a failing stroke or two, and ceased.
Cooper_The_Pilot_16040.13The sounds of the retiring footsteps, however, gradually grew fainter, and the return of her guardian alone recalled the recollection of the young lady to the duties of her situation.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_242250.13As she pronounced these last words, the speaker's voice grew fainter and fainter.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_75340.13He is silent; the auctioneer grows warmer; but bids gradually drop off.
Evans_St_Elmo_34460.13It is like deep-toned thunder blended with whispering rain-drops."
Cooper_Pathfinder_52680.13I think I hear groans that grow fainter and fainter, and fear that they will all be tomahawked!"
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_82680.13The clamor grew stronger and louder, and insulting speeches were shouted at her.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_75730.13The sounds increased and increased, and then there was a temporary silence; and after that a faint hallooing in the wood to her right.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_23240.13how even the faintest would strive to catch his eye and gaze with parted lips on him as he spoke, as though drinking in his very words,--the balm to their bruised hearts,--and the faint cry of "l'Empereur!
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_30180.13The hoarse and careless laugh, the deep-toned voice of some old campaigner holding forth his tale of flood and field, were the only sounds I heard; and gradually I strolled beyond the reach of even these.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_71640.12During these words she leaned upon me, half in gay imitation of what I had so often made her do, and half in depth of earnestness, as the thrice-repeated word grew stronger, and grew warmer, with and to her heart.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_61140.12The word was scarcely spoken when the loud cheer answered the welcome sound, and the same instant the long line of shining helmets passed with the speed of a whirlwind; the pace increased at every stride, the ranks grew closer, and like the dread force of some mighty engine we fell upon the foe.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_69610.11I fancied I heard, even now, a faint echo of that peculiarly sweet and careless laugh, indicating how light were all impressions on a temperament so plastic and weak--so easily remoulded by the very next influence that fate might throw across her perilous way.
Cooper_The_Prairie_24670.11Paul continued in a tone which, for the gay, light-hearted bee-hunter, sounded dolorous and reproachful.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_52910.11she whispered with desperate impetuosity.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_2510.11But still he murmured some faint objection.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_14350.11"No answer from us but a faint snore.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_87560.10"Yes, father," said Frances, in a still fainter voice.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_199640.10The clamor was indeed approaching, and grew more and more distinct.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_59520.10He got a kick from the horse when he was down, and he thinks he fainted with the pain.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_75210.10It was so faint at first that the outer noises were almost sufficient to drown it.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_59050.10The strains rose just so loud as to become intelligible, and then grew fainter and more trembling, until they finally sank on the ear, as if borne away by a passing breath of wind.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_177790.10This voice made every one bow before it, resembling in its effect the wind passing over a field of wheat, by its superior strength forcing every ear to yield obeisance.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_39380.09He grew excited--so much so, indeed, that he fainted, and, in falling, struck his head.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_92280.08Some were uncoupling the dogs, whose hoarse, savage bay added not a little to the animation of the scene.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_124380.08They ride lovingly together, close to one another, and forgetful of the whole world, as they should do, for they have scarcely come to the end of their honeymoon.
Disraeli_Lothair_49860.08When the wound had been examined and probed and dressed, Theodora in a faint voice said, "Is it desperate?"
Cooper_The_Pilot_17170.08His breathing was hard and quick, and something like the low, rapid murmurings of a confused utterance mingled with his respiration.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_38490.07[9] The majestic phrase with which the symphony opens, and which also appears in the vocal parts ("All that has life and breath"), is the Intonation to the second tone of the Magnificat.
Lewald_Hulda_30850.07Those wretched words, "Mieux aime mon martyre," with their strange foreign sound, mag in his ears.
Collins_Armadale_66510.07Listening carefully as the slight sound which had disturbed him grew fainter, he recognized in it the rustling of women's dresses.
Wood_East_Lynne_143700.06"Is he off in another faint?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_19150.06'Oh!
Stael_Corinne_vol1_25430.06"What do you tell me?"
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_68900.06hush!"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_42670.06"Flebotomy!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_85580.06Yes, I was rather faint.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_144420.06jug!
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_103490.06"Hush!"
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_14150.06Thank you!"
Harland_Alone_21920.06"What a Babel!"
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_18680.06Oh!
Evans_Beulah_56130.06"Cornelia has fainted!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_4440.06At first they saw nothing around them.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_196850.06He again fainted.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_148560.06Danglars did not even look at her, though she did her best to faint.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28820.06I was terrified.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_14170.32The obscurity augmented the acuteness of his hearing; at the slightest sound he rose and hastened to the door, convinced they were about to liberate him, but the sound died away, and Dantes sank again into his seat.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_14230.25The obscurity augmented the acuteness of his hearing; at the slightest sound he rose and hastened to the door, convinced they were about to liberate him, but the sound died away, and Dantes sank again into his seat.
Reade_White_Lies_66880.18Presently she raised her head quickly; a sound had reached her ear,-- a sound so slight that none but a high-strung ear could have caught it.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_192830.17As the last stroke died away, the count thought he heard a slight noise in the dressing-room; this first sound, or rather this first grinding, was followed by a second, then a third; at the fourth, the count knew what to expect.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_193950.17As the last stroke died away, the count thought he heard a slight noise in the dressing-room; this first sound, or rather this first grinding, was followed by a second, then a third; at the fourth, the count knew what to expect.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_26890.16"No matter; here 's the whole, full, thrue, and particular account--" And so he turned the angle of the building, and I could hear his voice mingling with the street noises as he wended his way down Dame Street.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_113210.16"But I am not a foreigner, sir," said she, with an accent as pure as ever was heard between Portsmouth and Manchester; "my name is Lady Clarik, and this measure--" "This measure is general, madame; and you will seek in vain to evade it."
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_63830.15Presently he came opposite, and she believed from his voice that he was one of the boys on her own farm.
Reade_White_Lies_6710.14Presently she uttered a slight ejaculation; and her daughters looked up directly.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_24750.14A short whirr from the old clock, and two hollow strokes were heard.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_20430.14She was standing by a chest, examining the strangely elaborate and mysterious-looking scutcheon of its lock, when his lordship's hammering ceased, and presently she found that he was by her side.
Reade_Foul_Play_51450.13Presently the creeping ceased, and was followed by a louder and more mysterious noise.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_54380.13It soon appeared to him that he heard a slight noise within--a timid noise which seemed to tremble lest it should be heard.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_55410.13The noise had ceased; but it seemed that Morrel expected something -- something had occasioned the noise, and something must follow.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_27690.13"In the name of heaven," cried Dantes, "speak again, though the sound of your voice terrifies me.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_11540.13The stroke was measured, and the noise low and distant, but it was too familiar to be mistaken.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_208460.13It was just five o'clock in the morning when a slight noise like a stifled sigh reached his ear.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_25640.13Nothing was audible; no sounds but the ordinary sounds of the street disturbed the dreadful silence.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_167270.13She heard the strokes of a hammer, and then a noise as of some heavy piece of furniture being moved.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_21120.12As she went up, however, certain sounds of it came again, and grew louder till they seemed close to her ears, then gradually died away and once more ceased.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_1420.12The noise of his fall sent up a hundred echoes in the silent building, and terrified us both dreadfully.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_25820.12Dantes spoke for the sake of hearing his own voice; he had tried to speak when alone, but the sound of his voice terrified him.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_25890.12Dantes spoke for the sake of hearing his own voice; he had tried to speak when alone, but the sound of his voice terrified him.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_12510.12monsieur, I was terrified, my head was in a whirl, I did not dare, I could not pronounce a word,--yet I was anxious to speak and defend myself.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_75830.12the regent's answer laid the interrogator's head at his feet; but the voice had awakened the ever watchful king.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_174350.12The sound ceased.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_19080.11Having thus heard the signal plainly, I laid me down; and it having been a day of great fatigue to me, I slept very sound, till I was something surprised with the noise of a gun; and presently starting up, I heard a man call me by the name of governor, governor; and presently I knew the captain's voice; when climbing up to the top of the hill, there he stood, and pointing to the ship, he embraced me in his arms: "My dear friend and deliverer," says he, "there's your ship, for she is all yours, and so are we, and all that belong to her."
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_12770.11"The slightest noises startle me.
Broughton_Nancy_34300.11it does not sound like your gibing voice!"
Collins_Woman_in_White_39930.11I hear the croaking of frogs, faint and far off, and the echoes of the great clock hum in the airless calm long after the strokes have ceased.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_29040.11A bugle sounded twice or thrice sharply without, and occasioning some bustle at the lower part of the ball, interrupted for a brief space the converse of the lords.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_13020.10Presently he heard a slight rustling.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_5670.10sounded the anxious voice of the aunt.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_45550.10said he, in a measured tone of voice, while his eye fell with a peculiar meaning on a chair which stood opposite to mine, on the opposite side of the stove.
Harris_Rutledge_38240.10A thick, suffocating fog, possessed the earth, through which the distant lights blinked drearily; even the noises of the streets sounded muffled and subdued.
Collins_The_Moonstone_18790.10Had they heard any suspicious noises during the previous night?
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_189900.10Suddenly, she heard the sounds of a bugle horn.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_61080.10As soon as the cart came opposite the spot the old man rose from his lofty seat, and standing up said in a loud voice, "I am the sage Lirgandeo," and without another word the cart then passed on.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_39310.09The sounds of the hammers, that were in incessant motion in the village, were faintly heard across the water; but the dogs had crouched into their lairs, satisfied that none but the privileged had approached the forbidden ground.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_81990.09Presently he caught Mary's voice in expostulation: "How could you not come to read?"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_166920.09A whoop sounded in his ears; it seemed to ring inside his head it was so near.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_41800.09As she ceased, a measured voice, with a foreign accent, thrilled through her.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_25580.09As she uttered a slight cry, Johanna hastened in with a light.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_9760.09Ah, execrable fury, cease,--cease, or I will strangle thee!"
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_14270.09The sounds of drill had long ceased, but those of clanking hammers were heard the more clearly, now one, now two, now several together.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_27620.09"In the name of heaven," cried Dantes, "speak again, though the sound of your voice terrifies me.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_52540.09Presently she heard awful sounds, like the subdued growling of wild beasts.
Harland_Jessamine_21710.09Jessie was tying on her hat, and the action might have caused the slight quaver and weakness in her voice.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_29660.08"Quick then, and let me hear no more," said Ebbo, about to descend the pass, as if hastening from the execution of a wolf taken in a gin.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_44410.08But through all the noise of the streets is heard a dreamy, monotonous murmur, the slow drip of melting snow.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75690.13He said this, in his peculiar, subdued, yet emphatic voice; looking, when he had ceased speaking, not at me, but at the setting sun, at which I looked too.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_93390.12Besides, there is that peculiar voice of hers, so animating and piquant, as well as soft: it cheers my withered heart; it puts life into it.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84650.09"My heart is mute, -- my heart is mute," I answered, struck and thrilled.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41970.11Had that voice, whose quiet tones had thrilled through every fibre of her frame, once pmnouncea a curse upon the recreant daughter of the Hirsch- sprungsf The stranger’s name was precisely the one borne by his ancestor who had left X to seek his home in distant countries.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47700.15Am I not to sneer at your treating her like a princess——" "No, not like a princess,—like the best beloved of my heart, like my first and only love," he interrupted her, in a deep, melodious voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15550.14Madame," said the young Countess, in tones of gentle entreaty, " you spoke upon the forest-meadow of the love which was the first precept of Christianity.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_14970.10Helene cried to her, as she saw her turning over the music-sheets.

Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_34750.25Little Ernest is the life and soul of the house; the sound of his feet pattering about, and all his prattle, are the sweetest music to my ear; and his heart is brimful of love and joy, so that he shines on us all like a sunbeam.
Cooper_The_Prairie_47170.16The Master of Life has an ear for every language!"
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_65910.15So the face of the exile lightens up at the throbbing of his heart, when, in some foreign land, he suddenly and unexpectedly hears the sound of his own language.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_40730.14She wiped away those dew-drops that I would have caught upon my heart, and answered, her voice of music all quiet now,-- "I have had a strange letter from the gentleman you love so well.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_21140.14When she returned to Frankfort none but the most acute observer would have suspected that the sparkling eye and dancing footstep were the disguise of a desolate, aching heart and that the merry laugh and witty repartee were but the echoes of a knell of sadness, whose deepest tones were stifled ere they reached the ear of the listener.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_4960.14The silence to which Dagobert had condemned himself, almost choked him; this song afforded him some relief.
Evans_St_Elmo_81590.14He came nearer, and the sound of his low, mellow voice thrilled her heart as no other music had ever done.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_25120.13What is said of Divine Grace, which suddenly transforms the heart, may humanly speaking be applied to the power of melody; and among the presentiments of the life to come, those which spring from music are not to be despised.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_90510.13Her hearer did not answer; the words made her heart ache; they cut her to the soul.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_90950.13But her outcries were no longer accompanied with that fierce and dreadful language in which she sought relief at first.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_141260.13And then the same sun that had warmed his little heart at home came glowing down on him here, and he gave music back for it more and more, till at last--amid breathless silence and glistening eyes of the rough diggers hanging on his voice--out burst in that distant land his English song.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_44430.12What a strange thrill it sent through me to think that I was privy to the deepest secret of that important step on which the peace of Europe was resting,--that I had heard the very words as they fell from the lips of him on whom the destiny of millions then depended!
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_10410.12"In the midst of life, we are in death--" There was a universal sound as of a sort of sob, that Etheldred never disconnected from those words.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_86020.12She lifted her head, and all the unutterable love she bore her country and her people thrilled through the music of her voice.
Cooper_Pathfinder_70330.12"Jasper," Pathfinder commenced, in a tone so solemn as to thrill on every nerve in his listener's body, "this _has_ surprised me!
Broughton_Nancy_43840.12Now, he is whispering to me--a whisper accompanied by one of those powerful and painful nudges, with which he emphasizes his conversation on his listener's ribs.
Lewald_Hulda_54990.12Michael asked, with a sneer.
Collins_Woman_in_White_90320.12my love!
Evans_Vashti_65320.12There were hours when his heart ached for the sight of that white face he had loved so madly, and the sound of the mournfully sweet voice,--and his hand trembled at the recollection of the soft, cold, snowy fingers, that once thrilled his palms; but he treated these utterances of his heart as mercilessly as the hunter who cheers his dogs in the chase where the death-cry of the victim rings above bark and halloo.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_24750.12No word did Percy speak, but his choking sobs were heard; there was no movement in the drooping form of his brother to say that he had heard the sound; he did not raise his head from Percy's shoulder, or seek to speak of comfort.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_36410.11She turned round, but could not disengage herself from the spirit that was within her; his half-suppressed sighs seemed yet to thrill in her ear and weigh upon her heart.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_17940.11She possessed the gift of song, and that, too, so naturally, that you would as little think of inquiring whence she had caught it, or what master had taught her, as of asking the same questions about a bird, in whose small strain of music we recognize the voice of the Creator as distinctly as in the loudest accents of his thunder.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_53080.11'It is half-past eight,' she said in a low voice, which had a peculiar music in it, seemingly born of a thrill of pleasure at the new proof that she was beloved.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_78400.11As soon as the robbers heard this they raised a shout of "Long life to Roque Guinart, in spite of the lladres that seek his ruin!"
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_5460.11Elinor Hadden's sweet child-face, always gentle and good-humored, though visited little yet with the deep touch of earnest thought,--smiling upon life as life smiled upon her,--looked lovelier to Leslie as this whisper made itself heard in her heart; and it was with a sweeter patience and a more believing kindliness that she answered, and tried to enter into, her next merry words.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_18540.11What is death, compared to such a life as is waiting for _me?_" She looked him over, in one disdainful glance from head to foot; her voice rose to its loudest and firmest tones."
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_44140.11The name of his beloved, his devoted Agnes, trembled on his lips, but fearful of betraying her to unfriendly ears, ho checked himself, and started up, exclaiming, "Who comes?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_17140.11And you will not break your heart, sir, because of music."
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_23240.11"Because it is only in that land they call music 'Tone.'"
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_24480.11Lottie is a little peculiar, and went there as a stranger upon a frolic."
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_29690.11His tones seemed to thrill, and stir my very heart.
Collins_No_Name_100550.11"Granted, with all my heart," persisted the captain.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_46260.10The crowds, the executioner at his post, the guard already round the scaffold, too truly told the hour was at hand, and though her heart turned sick with apprehension, and she felt as if to know the worst were preferable to the hour of suspense, she could not look again, and she would have sought the inner chamber, and endeavor to close both ears and eyes to all that was passing without, when the Earl of Berwick suddenly entered, and harshly commanded her to stir not from the cage.
Cooper_The_Pilot_5050.10The young man paused one moment, in astonishment, as the clear, distinct tones of the stranger struck his ears so unexpectedly; but turning his eyes to seaward, he sprang on the deck, and proceeded to obey the order, as if life and death depended on his dispatch.
Kingsley_Hypatia_68580.10What accusations might he not send off on the spot to the Byzantine Court?
Bronte_Villette_50930.10And he mentioned a name that thrilled me--a name that, in those days, could thrill Europe.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_162610.10We have words for everything about us and can imitate all objects, and, over and above that, we have music and pure thought.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_29640.10I was so used to call him, and to hear him called, the Chevalier, that at first I started, but was soon in a deep monologue of all that had happened to me in connection with him and his music, only suppressing that which I was in the habit of reserving, even in my own mind, from my conscious self.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_73270.10But the music of her voice had so charmed him that he did not like to interrupt it even to speak of that which was nearest his heart.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_33900.10At first it seemed to me that my life must have uttered a very uncertain sound if those who saw it could misunderstand its language.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_39910.10(I nodded slightly, for if my life depended on it, I could not have uttered a word.)
Broughton_Nancy_40220.10coming a step nearer, and speaking without a trace of sneer, sloth, or languor.
Broughton_Nancy_31450.10As he speaks, an arrow of animosity toward Algy shoots through my heart.
Bronte_Shirley_17350.10His quiver is not seen; if his arrows penetrate, their wound is like a thrill of new life.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_23720.10There was no stir about the house--no sign of life, only the crimson blaze shining across the fields, and the sound of a voice, feeble now, and sunk almost to a whisper, for Nina's strength was giving way.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_8680.10"Lady," returned the scout, solemnly, "I have listened to all the sounds of the woods for thirty years, as a man will listen whose life and death depend on the quickness of his ears.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_71830.09Here out on the mountain, with nobody near us, with Nature all round us, I ask you on your solemn word as a woman, do you love him?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_10190.09Why, there is no night-owl with a cold in her head which is not music to the governor's voice."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_178680.09He then confided, in very broken language, that the storks with their great flapping wings.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_53450.09At length the sage, on whom alone the decision depended, said, in a firm voice: "Huron, depart."