Bronte_Jane_Eyre_9470.11Sometimes I think I am in Northumberland, and that the noises I hear round me are the bubbling of a little brook which runs through Deepden, near our house; -- then, when it comes to my turn to reply, I have to be awakened; and having heard nothing of what was read for listening to the visionary brook, I have no answer ready."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26160.10Something gurgled and moaned.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2150.09I 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.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2590.05I want to be alone with you and papa!"

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_12120.12All 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-AtTheCouncillors_25750.08Robust 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_110.05[#] Pronounced Brook.

Wister_Schillingscourt_8230.19In the vicinity of the atelier she suddenly paused, startled, to listen; from the conservatory was heard a rushing and plashing, as of the falling from a height of a mountain brook; she need no longer fear that her hasty step across the gravel path would be heard, this rushing noise drowned all other sounds.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_52280.18I 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.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_80250.18She awoke to see the tawny moonshine streaming in, to hear the soft whispers of the night wind, the soft, sleepy lap of the sea on the sands, and to realize, with a thrill and a shock, she was Sir Victor Catheron's wife.
Evans_St_Elmo_19160.15But 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.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_154080.14* The rushing of the waters and the rustling of the forests sound so strangely at night, and yet the rushing and rustling are unceasing.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_35760.14The river murmured solemnly along the shore.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_41600.14The tempest has lulled by degrees, and nothing is heard from afar but the hoarse murmur of the waves, as they wash heavily the shore.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_50040.13cried he in a stentorian voice, as he rushed frantically from his lodge.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_27720.13the dull echo of the vault and the gurgling waters alone replied.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_63030.13Intermingled with its plash and murmur came those voices which are heard only in the stillness of the night, strange, unfamiliar voices, mysterious as the night itself The wind was hushed.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_253660.13Her eyes were straining to see the ship which was carrying her son over the vast sea; but still her voice involuntarily murmured softly, "Edmond, Edmond, Edmond!"
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_35780.13The moon seemed enlarged to the dimensions of a sky; the murmur of the river sounded like a cataract, and in the vast murmur I heard voices which seemed then like the voices of the dead.
Cooper_Pathfinder_14840.13After a short pause, a dull roaring sound was heard, which at times resembled the mutterings of distant thunder, and then again brought with it the washing of waters.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_10690.12Thou dost mark well, faithful and trusty squire, the gloom of this night, its strange silence, the dull confused murmur of those trees, the awful sound of that water in quest of which we came, that seems as though it were precipitating and dashing itself down from the lofty mountains of the Moon, and that incessant hammering that wounds and pains our ears; which things all together and each of itself are enough to instil fear, dread, and dismay into the breast of Mars himself, much more into one not used to hazards and adventures of the kind.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_103730.12And one dark, dreadful night he went out, and down to the river, and--Nellie followed, and found him there.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_27600.12Nothing 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.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_58480.12exclaimed Guy, shouting as loud as he could, for the noise of the winds and waves was tremendous.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_37760.12exclaimed Madeleine, in a querulous and impatient tone, "since there is nothing but water for me to drink, let me at least have a draught of that!
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_114080.11She had heard a noise among the trees, and had hurried out, when suddenly a figure rushed up to her--an awful figure!
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_57260.11How sharply and with what harsh clamor does the sea rake back the pebbles as it momentarily withdraws into its own depths!
Aguilar_Home_Influence_47320.11A sharp report sounded suddenly from the sea--whether it was the first, or that others might have been lost in the tumult of the winds and waves, who might answer?
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_30790.10Again that choked, stifled moan, and a ring of blood told where the sharp nail had been, but Edith heeded nothing save Richard's voice, saying to her, "You have heard of little streams trickling from the heart of some grim old mountain, growing in size and strength as they advanced, until at last they became a mighty river, whose course nothing could impede, Such, Edith, is my love for that singing bird.
Lewald_Hulda_37740.10The prospect of sitting her whole life long at the IJttJe window where she had sat from earliest ohildhood, seeing only the ehurch and church-jai'd, hearing only the plash and murmur of the waves, or the screams of the sea-hirds, was terrible to her.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_3640.10Thousands of brilliant sparkles danced upon the water; the rushes whispered low and mysteriously as the air breathed through them.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_1040.10Oswald listened as much as he could to the noise of the wind and to the murmuring of the waves; for all the voices of nature conveyed more gratification to his soul than he could possibly receive from the social conversation indulged in at the foot of the Alps, among the ruins, and on the borders of the sea.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_23820.10He remembered how the little noises that made rings of sound in the silence of the woods, like pebbles dropped in still waters, had reached his inner consciousness.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_149020.10In the middle of the stream he stopped the boat, and suspending his burden over the water cried in a loud voice, "Let the justice of God be done!"
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_15830.10Nothing was heard in reply to the signal but the gurgle and cluck of one of these invisible wheels -- together with a few small sounds which a sad man would have called moans, and a happy man laughter -- caused by the flapping of the waters against trifling objects in other parts of the stream.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_6050.10After 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!"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_180870.10He even thought that he had once heard her sing, and that her voice had been audible above the rushing and roaring of the water, and it was a strange coincidence that most of the herbs of which he was in search could be found in the neighborhood.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_79330.09I do remember how when very young, I saw the great sea first, and heard its swell As I drew nearer, caught within the spell Of its vast size and its mysterious tongue.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_7750.09Is't the wind or the water That sighs in my ear?'
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_6170.09murmured Cecil, with an expostulatory wave of his cigar.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_3770.09And hark, the pleasant murmur, the gurgle, the plash!
Harse_Luck_of_Roaring_Camp_410.09Above the swaying and moaning of the pines, the swift rush of the river, and the crackling of the fire rose a sharp, querulous cry,--a cry unlike anything heard before in the camp.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_111120.08Passing rapidly across the vast court-yard and approaching the porter's lodge, to ask him to let her out, she heard these words pronounced in a gruff voice: "It seems, old Jerome, that we are to be doubly on our guard to-night.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_8170.08Words rang in his ears, muffled words, as though muttered in the storm, and his mind, which had brooded so long over his father's letter, now gave shape to the noise of winds and waves. "
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_10300.08Gualtier began to murmur his thanks, Hilda waved her hand.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_77030.08Thousands re-echoed the shout, and the horsemen waved their hats in exultation.
Cooper_The_Prairie_12990.08cried Ishmael, lifting his powerful voice a little above the rushing of the element.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_26910.08It was a low and almost inaudible movement of the water, and was succeeded by a grating of pebbles one against the other.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_186680.08In the short pause that followed these words, the stream murmured louder than before, as if it, too, had something to say.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_23670.08Dantes 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.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_41770.08It was very early, and in the perfect stillness the soft gurgle of the little brook came distinctly to her ear.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_92520.08All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and said in a harsh voice:-- "My horse has not been watered."
Harland_Alone_42440.08The rain was plashing against the window; there was no other sound except a subdued murmur of distant voices.
Collins_The_Moonstone_31800.08But, now my attention was roused, I heard the dogs uneasy, and the wind moaning low.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_56150.08So 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.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_17180.07And they heard her cry and answered her, those murmuring forests, those precipitous brooks and vaporous valleys.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_43260.07His kind words were to her as the voice of him that calleth for the waters of the sea that he may pour them out on the face of the earth.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14030.14There 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_76500.09he repeated, in a voice low and hollow as an echo.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_51000.09Jewels for Jane Eyre sounds unnatural and strange: I would rather not have them."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18980.09The 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_95980.09"Jane, I ever like your tone of voice: it still renews hope, it sounds so truthful.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57150.14Before 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_6120.12Did she not hear the noise, the dreary sound that echoed back from the rafters of the old Dierkhof ?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46070.09Two 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-GoldElsie_43670.09Her terrible voice echoed eerily against the narrow walls of the tower.
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.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9930.06But without there were sounds of reawakening ex- istence.

Cooper_The_Pioneers_40480.19Edwards started, as a full cry broke on his ear, changing from the distant sounds that were caused by some intervening hill, to confused echoes that rang among the rocks that the dogs were passing, and then directly to a deep and hollow baying that pealed under the forest under the Lake shore.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_3290.19Did the distance and the doors always deaden the sounds of late revels, so as not to break Lady Catharine's slumbers?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_27580.18said 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.
Cooper_The_Prairie_24670.18Paul continued in a tone which, for the gay, light-hearted bee-hunter, sounded dolorous and reproachful.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_63270.17As we marched along a low vaulted corridor, the sounds of the court grew fainter and fainter; and at last the echoes of our own steps were the only noises.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_19720.17The Palace of the Caesars has gone down thither, with a hollow, rumbling sound of its fragments!
Bronte_Villette_59090.17Now Methusaleh, though so very old, was of sound timber still; only there was a hole, or rather a deep hollow, near his root.
Evans_Beulah_95610.16These well-worn volumes, with close "marginalias," echoed her inquiries, but answered them not to her satisfaction.
Collins_No_Name_106630.16The sound came on, faster and faster, nearer and nearer -- the trivial sound to all other ears; the sound of Doom to hers.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_135660.15With the exception of your reverence, nobody approached me during that long space of time; no human voice but yours sounded in my ear.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_34370.15The 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.
Harland_Jessamine_27260.15A faint echo came back from the hills.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_27650.14said 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.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_15250.14The intervening rocks and bushes confined all sounds within a very narrow space; but at length a faint unintelligible noise broke on the stillness, it came nearer, nearer still, a moment more and the tread of horses' hoofs echoed amongst the rocks--a shout, a joyful shout proclaimed them friends.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_35230.14A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group.
Bronte_Villette_96380.14If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_159330.14Listening keenly, his fine ear heard the nugget go down the fork, striking the wood first one side then another, and then at a certain part sound no more.
Warner_Queechy_84260.14Its faint echo of the old-time laugh was blended now in Fleda's ear with a gentle wail for the rushing days and swifter fleeing delights of human life;--gentle, faint, but clear,--she could hear it very well.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_10290.13But he could not tell what he knew, and all that he said sounded so hollow and hypocritical that it made him feel guilty.
Cooper_The_Prairie_50150.13He even affected to laugh at the conceit of exchanging his long-tried partner for the more flexible support of the youthful Tachechana, though his voice was hollow and unnatural in the effort.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_16050.13But Ralph's own faith was weak, and his words sounded hollow and hypocritical to himself.
Wood_East_Lynne_4870.13The faint echo of footsteps in the distance stole upon her ear, and Barbara drew a little back, and hid herself under the shelter of the trees, not choosing to be seen by any stray passer-by.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_76890.12There was most certainly a sound in the next room--a faint cry, quickly smothered--a very human cry.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_12250.12The agonized shriek of Catharine was answered by the faint--the very faint--voice of a child.
Evans_St_Elmo_3870.12There was a brief silence, and Edna answered slowly: "Yes, Mrs. Wood, I know it is; but God can protect me there as well as here, and I have none now but Him.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_34160.12Almost 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.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_5680.12"If ever I meet you," said the veteran, in a suppressed and hollow tone, "when my children have no longer need of me, I will just say two words to you, and they will not be long ones."
Harris_Rutledge_17600.12It was a sound far fainter and less appalling than those I had been listening to, unmoved, so long, but it roused the keenest terror.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_300.12The sensible horses stood -- perfectly still, and the waggoner's steps sank fainter and fainter in the distance.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_167810.11While each was giving some wild opinion or another, a faint voice issued from the bowels of the earth, invoking aid.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_58870.11Mohegan pointed toward Elizabeth, who, forgetting her danger, had sunk back to a projection of the rock as soon as she recognized the sounds of Edwards' voice, and said with something like awakened animation: "Save her--leave John to die."
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_2950.11echoed George.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_67100.11echoed Edwards, "whither do you go?"
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_25990.11Not improbably, he beheld Miriam through so dim a medium that she looked visionary; heard her speak only in a thin, faint echo.
Evans_Infelice_38340.11She put out her hand, which shook, despite her efforts to keep it steady, and her own voice sounded far, far off, like an echo lost among strange hills.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_31040.11"I recollect hearing you speak of your first visit to these woods, but the impression is faint, and blended with the confused images of childhood.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_49460.11The 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.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_58700.11The words of one human being, faint and broken by distance, suggested a sense of sympathy which nerved my courage and braced my arm; but the dreary silence that followed, only broken by the booming of the sea below, was awful beyond measure.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_10650.11The sound cheered them greatly; but halting to make out by listening from what quarter it came they heard unseasonably another noise which spoiled the satisfaction the sound of the water gave them, especially for Sancho, who was by nature timid and faint-hearted.
Evans_Vashti_39380.11Pretty words, and musical; but empty as those polished shells yonder that echo only hollow strains of the never silent sea.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_139260.11For two hours the servants at the villa heard singular noises in the woods, and passers-by heard with awe the same mysterious sounds.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_22970.10"Each sound seemed but an echo of tranquillity."
Cooper_Pathfinder_59760.10All human sounds had ceased.
Bronte_Shirley_1240.10It sounded to me much more like settling his co-apostles.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_195260.10The sound was echoed again and again from the mountains.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_35030.10Though without the faintest respect for grammar or idiom, he spoke their language with perfect composure, confidence, and self-satisfaction, and his tones were so well adapted to the slow, soft, languid tongue, that his blunders sounded better than other men's correctness of speech.
Kingsley_Hypatia_1150.10He had never heard a human being shriek but once.... a boy bathing on the opposite Nile bank, whom a crocodile had dragged down.... and that scream, faint and distant as it came across the mighty tide, had rung intolerable in his ears for days.... and to think of all which echoed through those vaults of fire-for ever!
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_57400.10Loud 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!
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_22970.10shouted the former speaker, in the awful tones of parental agony, the sound reaching even to the woods, and rolling back in solemn echo.
Collins_Woman_in_White_39930.10I 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.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42160.10she asked, with a slight tremor in her voice.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45050.09"Then we did not know of the secret hidden in the ruins," said Elizabeth, in an almost inaudible tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_18870.07Just then there was a rustle upon the balcony steps,—a slight, almost inaudible sound, as of the velvet tread of a cat.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2680.07I brought home a headache, mamma, and Ulrika loosened my braids for me,*' was the answer, and there was a slight shade of timidity in the voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44930.07I scarcely heard her sarcastic words: I could only think with a tremor of EckhoPs declaration that the dead had wandered restlessly within the sealed apartments.

Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_154720.16There was, too, in his wife's voice the slightest hint of mockery, which, slight as it was, he perhaps thought she might have spared.
Wister_Schillingscourt_8990.15- She cast a dark look towards the winding stair, where a quickly-suppressed rustle betrayed life and motion.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_8000.14The words fell soothingly on Ellen's ear, and the slight tremor in the voice reminded her also that her mother must not be agitated.
Cooper_The_Prairie_8140.14"The family is stirring," cried Ellen, with a tremor that announced nearly as much terror at the approach of her friends, as she had before manifested at the presence of her enemies.
Cooper_The_Pilot_36880.14"When the tide falls," he said, in a voice that betrayed the agony of fear, though his words expressed the renewal of hope, "we shall be able to walk to land."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_8090.13As an angry man after many hard cutting words relents somewhat and speaks calmly if still coldly, so nature, that had been stingingly severe the evening before, was now quietly letting fall a few final hints of the harsh mood that was passing away.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_6140.13I detected a slight tremor in his voice as he put that question.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_36740.12Her voice betrayed something of the perplexity within her; it wavered between pride and soft submission.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_37670.12The Khalifa took the long pipe from his mouth and spoke; his slow, sonorous accents falling melodiously on the silence in the lingua sapir of the Franco-Arab tongue.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_17090.12"Gabrielle does not resemble you in the least, Matilda," he said suddenly, and his tone betrayed a secret satisfaction.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_15910.12At this name Corinne was visibly agitated, and with a faltering voice refused what Oswald solicited.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_5780.12Was there ever so slight a tremor in the grave, steady voice, or did Reuben Kent only fancy it?
Lewald_Hulda_21300.11Oh, what a delicious, glorious time it was " She had told it all as if it were the story of some third person, nothing betraying her emotion except now and then a slight tremor in her voice.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_49750.11"I don't call those friends who betray and ruin you," murmured the wife in her turn, in a low, muttering voice.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_27220.11He had seen strong men die hard, mangled and shattered by sabre or bullet, but he had never heard a sound so terribly significant of agony as the dull, heavy groan that just then burst from Livingstone's lips.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_4200.10"She certainly betrayed herself by no look or gesture.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_15040.10Ellen whispers in terror.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_50450.10The fourth bottle of port was ebbing beneath my eloquence, as responsively her heart beat, when I heard a slight rustle in the branches near.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_8110.10His senses, refined and rendered acute by long vigils and slender diet, seemed to detect audible words in the voice of the storm.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_26660.10She writhed beneath those stern unpitying accents, which perhaps in such a moment of remorseful agony might have been spared, but she replied not; and, after a brief silence, the Duchess again spoke.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_22800.09I think he has been what folks call a 'hard customer.'"
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_23940.09Again I thought I detected a suppressed sob in her voice.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_160370.09And, strange to say, when I take the bullet in my hand and look at it, it agitates me greatly.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_11380.09--"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.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_90090.09Her weakness had disclosed his secret, and sunk her beneath him, and he must hear it from others.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_25580.09As she uttered a slight cry, Johanna hastened in with a light.
Cooper_The_Pilot_46560.09"Let it then be forever, John," she returned, with a slight tremor in her voice.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_38400.08I do not know whether I heard, but I was aware of a stretching and breathing; the old bones stirring underneath the pavement would have shaken me less, but could not have been less to my liking; the rush, however soft, the rustle, however subdued, were agony, were torment: I could only feel, "Oh that I were in heaven!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_208470.08He turned his head, looked around him, and saw no one; but the sound was repeated distinctly enough to convince him of its reality.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_13610.07returned Myndert, with a joyful tremor of the voice, that betrayed his deep and entire satisfaction.
Cooper_Pathfinder_13870.07said the guide in the dialect of the other's people, a tremor shaking his voice that betrayed the strength of his feelings.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_11160.07Not a bird fluttered, not a leaf stirred; from the Nixies' Well alone came a mysterious murmur, breaking the deep stillness.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_36460.07Just 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.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_49870.07"I don't call those friends who betray and ruin you," murmured the wife in her turn, in a low, muttering voice.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_46710.07I am afraid I should never see precisely the right moment for welcoming a new bird into my nest, dearly as I love the rustle of their wings and the sound of their voices when they do come.
Whitney_We_Girls_9640.05A dozen of us are not enough, and as soon as you go beyond, there gets to be too much of it.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_53390.05She ought not to be there.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_139990.05"I remember.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_170180.05Very well.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_34610.05Let your hate fall upon them!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_9450.05He didn't stir.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_47530.05"To keep my secret.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_43890.05It shall be as I say!
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_17200.05She had, and to many other natures also.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_73950.05"I will try," she said, softly, "but it is hard."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_7990.05Here they are."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_335270.05.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_3190.05"How do you do?"
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_52380.05She had said enough.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_7140.05Come!"

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10430.12"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. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14480.05Oh, how charming !

Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_59990.14He told her them as they had been uttered, adding no more; she saw the construction they had been intended to bear, and that which they had borne naturally to his ear; she listened earnestly to the end.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_7550.10"plaintively murmured Isabel, as the menial train reappeared, bearing the supper they had ordered and set it smoking down.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_56010.10'I should like you to go to-day, though; and see if, after all, there may not be a message for us.
Harland_At_Last_8430.10reiterated Rosa, testily.
Bronte_Villette_76180.10They paced the centre-alley for nearly an hour, talking earnestly: he--looking grave, yet restless; she--wearing an amazed, expostulatory, dissuasive air.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_259940.09A servant followed him, bearing a light.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_5910.09He was too shrewd not to know this; but he was too quickly galled ever to bear to have it recalled to him.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_141030.09In a furious voice, he cried: "I meant to shoot Bruno, and now it's you!
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_17360.08Could it by any possibility be the one which passed by him when he strove so earnestly to gain her attention!
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_43790.08"Miss Roseberry," she said, "I have borne without a murmur the bitterest words you could say to me.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_118390.08But here you have my hand and my word of honor that not a word shall pass my lips."
Evans_St_Elmo_44030.08We moved ten paces apart--and a couple of students, who happened accidentally to pass along the road and heard our altercation, stopped at our request, gave the word of command, and we fired simultaneously.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_37670.08More than once have I heard the muttered sentences around me which boded like this,-- "Go the pace, Harry, never flinch it!
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_6900.08At last the train came to a stand, and Isabel wailed forth in accents of desperation the words, "O, disgusting!"
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_56490.08Animating his followers by his voice, and his own example, Hawkeye then gave the word to bear down upon their foes.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_96830.07The crew, of course, though they were a little vexed at losing their pet, consoled themselves with the thought that she was a "real born lady," and Mr. Oxenham's daughter, too; and there was not a man on board who did not prick up his ears for a message if she approached him, or one who would not have, I verily believe, jumped overboard to do her a pleasure.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_164830.07Almost mad with grief, and determined to venture everything in order to see Valentine once more, and be certain of the misfortune he feared, Morrel gained the edge of the clump of trees, and was going to pass as quickly as possible through the flower-garden, when the sound of a voice, still at some distance, but which was borne upon the wind, reached him.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_23830.07She 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.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_45500.06As soon, therefore, as David gave the preconcerted signal, a low hissing sound was heard in the lodge in place of the fierce growlings of the bear.
Wood_East_Lynne_144970.05My child, how restless you seem!"
Warner_Queechy_123170.05"What does he mean?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_3730.05'I have just come away.'
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_24930.05"Because I'm a _freeman_!"
Reade_White_Lies_82710.05I will baffle them all.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_2670.05"Ay!
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_98160.05He is not there."
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_15120.05"I'm overmatched now," thought he.
Lewald_Hulda_9380.05That was more than she could bear. "
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_64110.05But what was that behind her?
Evans_Beulah_33930.05any messages?"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_32980.05At the end of three days he tried again.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_38820.05"I 'd rather be shot.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_112150.05This parting will not bear a farewell.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57410.06It was.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26880.05"But you heard an odd laugh?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20650.05The child had been playing for a long while, but.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_17260.14I 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_26180.11I had never known, like that happy child, that one word from the tender voice of a mother suffices to soothe all childish Borrow.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35120.10Did you hear the ring drop, child?
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22590.06"You make me impatient.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40340.05You shall never hear another sound from them,—I will take care of that.

Hugo_Les_Miserables_39180.18Fantine heard the gossips say, as they looked at her child: "Who takes those children seriously!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_78710.16But when the physician repeated, in the softest tone of affectionate interest: "Well, my poor child!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_58550.14She saw him only,--the grace of his motions, the tender care that he lavished upon the child,--and, like molten lava, the words burst from her lips, "Oh that I were that child!"
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_35280.13'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.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_51570.13The countess breathed again; and almost deceiving herself with the idea that Helen was indeed ignorant of her treachery, listened with emotions of another kind, when she heard of the rescue of her daughter-in-law.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_38540.13Bonacieux was repeating, word for word, a sentence which he had heard from the Comte de Rochefort; but the poor wife, who had reckoned on her husband, and who, in that hope, had answered for him to the queen, did not tremble the less, both at the danger into which she had nearly cast herself and at the helpless state to which she was reduced.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_26250.13Rose answered by a low cough, which her mother did not hear, or at least did not notice.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_11330.13Once she spoke, and Mary caught the words, "My child, my poor child."
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_53100.13Judith listened intently, and she heard the words - "husband" -"death" -"pirate" - "law" - "scalps" - and several others of similar import, though there was no sentence to tell the precise connection in which they were used.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_43900.13shrieked a voice of sudden anguish, startling all who heard, and even Edward, by its piteous tones, and the form of a page suddenly fell prostrate before the monarch.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_182440.12Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- "The scoundrel!
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_89590.12She softly repeated to the child: "mother," and it suddenly called out "mother" in a loud voice.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_65820.11The last words were spoken with a certain emphasis as the young wife threw a peculiar glance at her mother-in-law.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_181970.11All at once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, who lay in her bed with a stupid and dejected air, and said to her in a rapid but very low tone:-- "Take a look at that man!"
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_116470.11He heard her approach.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_25530.11"Hear, hear!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_253100.11Did you ever hear of such an idea?"
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_31760.11These were harsh words for a daughter to speak to her mother, under any provocation, and even Zell said: "Edith, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to speak to mother so."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_184190.11He heard the shrill, hard voice of Jondrette utter these words, which were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- "I tell you that I am sure of it, and that I recognized him."
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_59520.10You would not even hear me--that roused my pride.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_55680.10On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_73830.10Knight's voice was low and unequal.
Collins_The_Moonstone_58340.10I have lost every interest in life, but my interest in you.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_22680.10And in like manner, though his grandmother's allegation that his mother had been bent on captivating Sir Kasimir in that single interview at Adlerstein, had always seemed to him the most preposterous of all Kunigunde's forms of outrage, the recollection would recur to him; and he could have found it in his heart to wish that his mother had never heard of the old lady's designs as to the oubliette.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_47480.09Then, as if void of reason, he arose, and over the craggy hillside and down the dark, rolling river echoed the loud, shrill cry of, "Julia, Julia, oh, my child!
Collins_No_Name_57380.09Drawn by an irresistible fascination, Magdalen followed them again, gained on them as they reached the gate, and heard the voices of the two children raised in angry dispute which way they wanted to walk next.
Wood_East_Lynne_134270.09Mr. Ball coughed an insinuating cough.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_117090.09"No, she doesn't," said the poor mother in a tone of voice that was very lachrymose.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_26310.09I found that I had no words at command, but that he was able to talk to me as though I were a child.
Reade_Foul_Play_95740.09I only wanted to hear the sound of your voice, Joe Wylie."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_96430.09Never since she bore him had his mother heard her name uttered in such a tone.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_40710.09The next morning they found him with--"that across his throat that you had scarcely cared to see."
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_21530.09She paused between the two last words, and their imploring accent was almost piteous.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_191040.09He had seated himself in silence on the nearest bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly seen.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_8930.09Gertrude heard the complaining voice of her mother more clearly than before.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_84580.09Knight's voice had now become mild and gentle as a child's.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_75160.09Beatrice was not impatient, for she had no idea of trying to escape before midnight.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_54240.09And then a little sob disturbed us, and mother tried to make believe that she was only coughing.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_33360.09How else could he have answered me: 'Yes, the Highlanders have great affection for their rulers.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_25460.09added Fan, with sudden interest in her voice.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_24230.09"It is the Duchess of Rothbury's voice and step--my child!"
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_39650.09He found him, standing with one arm cast about the protecting post, and breathing thick and hard, after his exertions, but disdaining to permit a single sign of suffering to escape.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_73890.09And as the poor thing never spoke, and several of her servants and her baggage looked so foreign, and she herself died in a collar of lace unlike any made in England, all Watchett, without hesitation, pronounced her to be a foreigner.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_18950.09I know my last prayer to you is granted ere even it is spoken: you will protect and think of my poor mother; you will not permit her to droop and die of a broken heart, with no kind voice to soothe and cheer.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_75040.09"Palliser is coming without her," he said in his loud clear voice, thinking nothing of his wife's nephew.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_26610.09"Mother," exclaimed Clara, in the most piteous tones, "are you then so merciless?
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_62440.09and, drawing him on one side, objected, in an injured and piteous tone.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_60470.09The word was uttered softly, hardly above a breath, yet the mother heard it.
Lewald_Hulda_19500.09" Yes," she answered ; " but my poor mother has gcte i"' He did what ho could to soothe her.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_26800.09She heard her mother's voice, and approached slowly through the forest.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70500.09They would whisper sentences of this sort at my bedside - "It is very well we took her in."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63450.08I was surly; but the thing would not go: it stood by me with strange perseverance, and looked and spoke with a sort of authority.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60760.09From where I sat I could see his look grow grave at the physician's whispered words. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1230.05Come, do not be angry!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5350.05she whispered, agitated.

Broughton_Nancy_69420.18He 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.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_221330.16He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_58280.14"I have written to her," she whispered to her son in the evening, "and think she will come to see me."
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_106340.14"I--I am too late," he says in a hoarse sort of whisper.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_55000.13There are angels of mercy flying toward you, though you cannot hear the rustle of their wings.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_79150.13The former it will at once be seen was the officer who had been named with so much feeling in the parting dialogue between Judith and Hurry.
Cooper_The_Prairie_27920.13Flapping his sides with his hands, as the conquering game-cock is wont to do with his wings, he raised a loud and laughable imitation of the exultation of this bird; a cry which might have proved a dangerous challenge had any one of the athletic sons of the squatter been within hearing.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_57310.12"I do not speak of that flight and that breaking of his word, although they weigh heavily with the son of an officer.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_39480.12Zalika had whispered it to her son when he struggled against flight--against the breaking of his word of honor.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_9340.11"Come with me, my Hartmut," implored Zalika, now in those sweet, coaxing tones which were so effectively at hers as well as at her son's command.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_29390.11Here Mrs. Anderson grew very angry, and vented her spleen in a solemn exhortation to Andrew to get ready for the coming of the Master, not three weeks off at the farthest, and she warned him that the archangel might blow his trumpet at any moment.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_59880.10Eustace speaks: 'My dear fellow, be particularly careful not to make any noise; don't bowl your chair up and down the corridor to-night.'
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_224200.10"Hurry, hurry!"
Disraeli_Lothair_27870.10"We have struck him down once," said Mirandola.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_67560.10I 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!'
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_34130.10"Be warned, then," whispered Alice.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_95980.10His lower limbs were paralyzed.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_1500.10"_Was to have been_," she repeats, in a sort of whisper; "was to have been.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_112640.10she's aff, without a word at parting!"
Collins_Armadale_101000.10He is down with a sort of low fever.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_1200.10"Endeavour to get sufficiently near to him to be enabled to whisper, so that he alone can catch the words, while you carefully avoid allowing him to see the person who utters them, this sentence, 'You are late, my angel!'"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_156580.09The old physician read the signs aright.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_90660.09A small voice whispered "Fly."
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_24050.09"If he stirs, I'll strike," muttered the other.
Broughton_Nancy_26400.09cries Bobby, holding out the fruit to which he alludes, and speaking in a wobbly, quivering voice, with a painfully _literal_ imitation of my late address, "here's--here's--here's a _peach_!"
Collins_The_Moonstone_43410.09My own good sense ought to have warned me, I know, to let the matter rest-- but, there!
Broughton_Nancy_75160.09"You are late," I say presently, in a voice of low constraint, "are not you?
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_23720.09There 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.
Alcott_Work_37440.09But the little Quaker cap went down on the broad shoulder, and the only answer he heard was a sob that stirred the soft folds over the tender old heart that clung so closely to the son who had lived for her so long.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_116610.09"Shall I read you the rest "I shall be much beholden to you," shouted the sonorous atom.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_70720.08Bel hurried off, for Baby Karen "stirred" more emphatically at this moment.
Disraeli_Lothair_52500.08"I have a dream of angels," said Lothair; "and sometimes I listened to heavenly voices that I seemed to have heard before."
Reade_Foul_Play_82450.08However, after a period of general paralysis, Penfold whispered: "I heard it drop something on the shavings."
The_Eichhofs_Clean_9080.08No light was burning here either, but from below came a dull gleam, and the smothered sounds of hurried words and whispers.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_115360.08Then Andrew spoke, and said in a trembling, hardly audible voice, 'Are you my son?--my boy Robert, sir?'
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_2690.07There was an ominous sound of parting stitches, and an abrupt period in the young lady's graceful progress.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_61190.07cried the fellow, with a strange blending of irony and compassion in his voice; "be gorra, I knew how it would be,--the major has ye!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_99370.06The 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.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_9810.06"Hurry Harry, that is a lesson you might learn and practise on to some advantage," said the sweet, but spirited voice of Judith, from the cabin; a proof that she had over-heard all that had hitherto been said.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_23810.05"Yes; but he will be so angry.
Wood_East_Lynne_6750.05What a mouthful they all are!"
Wood_East_Lynne_42820.05It was a sort of checkmate.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_38980.05Not a breath was stirring.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_82070.05But Montague wouldn't go up.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_48320.05Will you come?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_29270.05Stop!
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_62380.05Not a leaf stirred.
Reade_White_Lies_44840.05And why not do it?"
Reade_White_Lies_22560.05he has"-- "Oh!"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_169260.05TOO LATE!"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_14850.13that was all I said; whereat she half laughed, half cried, and we both went into the parlour.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35700.13It soars no longer," he murmured, in half-stifled tones. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1700.12the girl exclaimed in a tone half of command and half of entreaty, as she tried to walk 011.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_2180.11And 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_57290.09self to recover our rights I" she implored, in half-stifled accents. "

Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_37130.15Edwin sobbed aloud.
Kingsley_Hypatia_85690.14It wanted half an hour of the time of her lecture.
Broughton_Nancy_58070.14"If _you_ are, I am," I reply, with a half-smothered sob.
Bronte_Shirley_92930.13If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_41640.13Presently he heard a half-stifled sob.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_115380.13Then, interrupting himself, he exclaimed: "Was it the half hour that just struck?"
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_28940.13"Half-past three, old fellow," answered Diogenes, looking at his watch.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_19970.12I stopped and listened, and was about again to move on, when a half-stifled sob fell upon my ear.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_39940.11"I--don't know," drawled Tom, in the voice, half sullen, half piteous, which he always assumed when out of sorts.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_191510.11Presently he spoke half to them, half to himself, "Oh," he said, with a subdued but concentrated rapture, "I feel it buoyant.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_26460.11Who, indeed, can look at that mouth,--with its lips half apart, as innocent as a babe's that has been crying, and not pronounce Beatrice sinless?
Trollope_Orley_Farm_83150.11He 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.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_55380.11A loud noise was heard on the stairs of people moving hastily, and half-stifled sobs.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_51670.10In the adjoining room, he could hear his wife's voice raised shrilly, and the cries of half a dozen Legards.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_10490.10I 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.
Wood_East_Lynne_136100.10Half-past six!
Alcott_Little_Women_7430.10"We shouldn't enjoy ourselves half so much as we do now.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_39540.10Thus 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.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_74210.10After 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.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_176950.09'I didn't speak half-a-dozen words.'
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_7260.09she exclaimed, in half-stifled accents.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_288010.09he murmured, in a half-stifled voice.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_60690.09cried half a dozen voices together.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_55150.09cry half a-dozen voices.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_42880.09asked half-a-dozen trembling voices.
Kingsley_Hypatia_12330.09roared half a dozen voices.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_19080.09said 'Lena, unconsciously and half aloud.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_81070.09she whispered in half-stifled accents.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_92740.09half a dozen shrill cabbies called, before and behind.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_59040.09Half an hour passed like a moment, in such an occupation.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_22130.08"No, mamma," said her daughter, in a low, half-stifled voice.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_5680.08But one look of his expressed as much as half-a-dozen sympathetic sentences of other people.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_41860.08asked half-a-dozen voices: for the Don was a general favorite.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_112850.08"Ah, really," said Monte Cristo in a half-stifled voice.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_8260.08Did you hear the echo of a piece in the mountains, half-an-hour since?"
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_90800.08"Half an hour," said Mrs Greenow, not without some little tone of command in her voice.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_32860.08The man's voice swelled half in anger, half in pain.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_650.08It was, at least, for half an hour that the banging, accompanied by a tremulous hissing, continued.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_5820.08"None but you, George," said William, with a voice half stern, half quivering.
Reade_Foul_Play_38320.08AFTER a long silence, Hazel asked her in a low voice if she could be there in half an hour.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_85610.08He murmured a prayer half aloud, and was quite unconscious that two others were standing within a few yards of him.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_114180.08Jack gave a murmur, and half-stopped, as a frightful suspicion crossed him.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_78900.07He started with a thrill of almost superstitious fear as through the silence he heard a name whispered--the name of his childhood, of his past.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_19710.07cried out half a dozen together, pretty much with the same tone and emphasis as though he had said a twopenny postman; "the devil they are."
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_22390.07Don Ippolito gave a low cry, half sob:-- "His words, his words!
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_37720.07Her voice had a half-angry, half-contemptuous sound as she answered: "I do not believe in this coincidence, Herr Count.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_68860.07When the hymn ceased, in harshest discord the voice of a half-drunken man grated on their ears.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_30560.07half-whispered Trysail, perhaps afraid to trust his voice within hearing of a creature that seemed almost endowed with the faculties of life.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_11900.07The spectral images of the eye in fever are not one half so terrible as the strange discordant tones that jar upon the tympanum in such a state as this.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_10920.06The 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.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_78240.05Hush!

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_39700.08The two children, born in the Karolinenlust, are " "Hush, hush, not a word more 1 Do not sav it aloud !"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12550.05Halloo !
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10570.05We will hear you farther at our leisure!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_19540.05Why not tell Bertha——" "Hush!

Cervantes_Don_Quixote_45090.16"Hush, Sancho," said Don Quixote in a weak and faint voice, "hush and utter no blasphemies against that enchanted lady; for I alone am to blame for her misfortune and hard fate; her calamity has come of the hatred the wicked bear me."
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_22360.16Ever 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.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_58680.16The old man's voice, as he muttered a prayer for my safety, grew fainter and fainter, till at length it ceased to reach my ears altogether.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_21120.15As 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.
Broughton_Nancy_79630.14Where formerly one could hardly make one's voice heard for the merry clamor, there is now no noise, but the faint buzzing of the house-flies on the pane, and now and again, as it grows toward sunset, the loud wintry winds keening and calling.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_103570.14"I cannot speak as I would," she said at length, while her voice grew very faint.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_61140.13The 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.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_23080.13Then the trending of many feet trampled their way out from beneath the loggia; their voices and their rapid steps grew fainter and fainter as they hurried away through the night.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_44590.13The wind was momentarily increasing, and I began to fear lest I should have taken my last look at the old craft, when my attention was called off by hearing a loud voice cry out, 'Halloo there!
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_26580.13As he spoke, the low murmuring sound of distantly moving cavalry crept along the earth, growing louder and louder, till at length we could detect the heavy tramp of the squadrons as they came on in a trot, our pace being merely a walk.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_21100.13They had not gone far down the _close_, when a roaring sound fell upon her ear, growing louder and louder as they went on; till, turning a sharp corner, there they saw the smithy fire.
Cooper_Pathfinder_52680.12I think I hear groans that grow fainter and fainter, and fear that they will all be tomahawked!"
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_18710.12Louder and louder grew his passion, but Mrs. Greville heard him not.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_75730.12The sounds increased and increased, and then there was a temporary silence; and after that a faint hallooing in the wood to her right.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_18770.12At this instant the minister of police appeared at the door, pale, trembling, and as if ready to faint.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_2410.12There came a deep rumble from the hollow stairway beneath him, which grew nearer and louder every moment.
Broughton_Nancy_59970.12do not be any harder upon me than you can help, for indeed, _indeed_ I have paid sorely for it, and it is the first lie that ever I told; then, at length, with a face as wan as the ashes of a dead fire-- with trembling lips, and a faint, scarcely audible voice, I say, "No, it is not true!"
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_59380.11A mean-spirited, skulking, bullying--" "Hush, hush, Tom, he is bad enough, but now you know what he is, you can keep clear of him for the future.
Evans_Inez_38570.11There came a faint sound of rising voices--it swelled louder, and louder still: "God bless our noble Colonel!
Wood_East_Lynne_37240.11You would like me to hush; what is my misery to you?
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_157510.11"You are very hard upon him, Cora."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_7760.11[Loud cheers.]
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_48850.11Hush!
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_19180.11"Hush, hush!"
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_75750.10The 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.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_74220.10At length, after a night spent in bitter moanings and lamentations, day came, and by its light Sancho perceived that it was wholly impossible to escape out of that pit without help, and he fell to bemoaning his fate and uttering loud shouts to find out if there was anyone within hearing; but all his shouting was only crying in the wilderness, for there was not a soul anywhere in the neighbourhood to hear him, and then at last he gave himself up for dead.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_65950.10As they shouted others took up the cry, louder, louder, and louder still, till his name burst forth in one sublime sound from thirty thousand lips.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_2990.10However, he began to murmur mellifluously.
Collins_Woman_in_White_60660.10--at first softly, then louder and louder.
Collins_No_Name_57400.10They only grew the louder and the angrier for what she said.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_199640.10The clamor was indeed approaching, and grew more and more distinct.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_30250.10"Hush, hush, Anna Maria!"
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_58640.10A hush that seemed like the hush of death lay over all.
Collins_No_Name_16260.10"Hush, my love," he said, almost in a whisper; "hush!"
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.
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.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_241740.09No 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.
Evans_Inez_190.09The tones grew louder and louder, and now the words were very audible: "My father did not send me here to come to prayers, and Madame has no right to make us get up before day to hear him read his Bible!"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_7590.09"Hush, Harry," she said; "mustn't speak loud, or they will hear us.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_1710.09But his voice was drowned in the loud panting of the engine, and they were off.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_32190.09But even when the minister's voice grew high and commanding--when it gushed irrepressibly upward--when it assumed its utmost breadth and power, so overfilling the church as to burst its way through the solid walls, and diffuse itself in the open air--still, if the auditor listened intently, and for the purpose, he could detect the same cry of pain.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_41670.09He received no answer, but the sobs grew louder, more passionate.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_3730.09"Hush--not so loud--your companion might hear us, and I must speak with you, Hartmut--with you alone."
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_58420.09asked Emily with a faint attempt at the tone of ordinary interest.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_38660.09At the end of an hour, he heard a faint noise, which increased.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_21910.08So said Mr. Furnival to himself, out loud;--speaking out loud in order that he might convince himself.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_242300.08said Cephyse, in a voice which was also growing faint, as she pressed her closer to her bosom; "it will soon be over."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_242250.08As she pronounced these last words, the speaker's voice grew fainter and fainter.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_221530.08his eyes grew both more brilliant and more sunken, and his voice sharper and louder.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_43620.08But, through it all, another sound was heard, faint at first as a mere whisper, but growing ever nearer, ever more distinct.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_89170.07I exclaimed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67840.06she exclaimed, "there is a woman wants me to give her these porridge."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33920.15said the Professor suddenly, in a clear ringing voice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17840.14The Professor started as if waking from a dream, as their voices struck upon his ear.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15590.10"She does not look in the least like it," said the Professor suddenly, in a clear, decided voice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18100.07asked the Professor, harshly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12550.06"Ah, I am just in time to hear sentence passed," she said.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13700.05Such a question in his study from girlish lips sounded strange and naive to the grave physician.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36780.14he 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_32600.13I did not mean to startle him ; my voice was weak and timid ; yet he started as if the last trump had sounded in his ears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_51220.11He was angry, but he retained his self-command. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12740.11he cried, in a tone of harsh command.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36750.11"You will always have my confidence, Helene," he broke silence at last.
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.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22180.10he asked, brusquely; his voice had not lost its former harsh tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_46130.10281 fused noise of voices raised in command and complaint.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43410.10Henriette started up in alarm; the words sounded so harsh.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22870.09That 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_The_Second_Wife_28800.09Had 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?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61370.09Eckhof started as the gentle tones fell upon his ear more crushingly than the severest denunciation.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9750.09And she " She paused suddenly and bit her lip, as if to recall the utterance of the sharp answer that had escaped her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42000.08The harsh, rude voice of the baroness sounded like sweet music in her ears, for it brought her succour.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13930.07And 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_55260.07she said, in a startled tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49430.07I was startled.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9050.07"I cannot be harsh.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_250.07‘ The man looked startled.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13890.07she exclaimed solemnly. '
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_26830.07Yes, yes!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44650.07he said, in the tone of command which she knew so well.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41390.07how angry you can be!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28800.07exclaimed the councillor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19620.07said a boy’s voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12300.06You mu3t have lost your wits, Lhn.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57550.06she slowly asked, in a hoarse, changed voice. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45740.06the Frau President murmured, with a start.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24320.06he asked, so suddenly, so sharply, that she started involuntarily.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20610.06And she turned to Flora and elevated her voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44680.06she exclaimed, blowing away the thick dust that had gathered there.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_13730.06a voice suddenly called after us in a rather displeased tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41930.06The sound of the shrill laughter startled Hollfeld, and he looked up.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_13850.06For one moment he seemed to be startled by the sound of the voice so unexpectedly addressing him.

Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_233680.18"Now that my wounds are dressed, I will get up," said weak, but sharp and imperious voice.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_11170.16After a pause of some length, Morel replied, in a low, hasty tone: "Yes, yes; it is bad, very, very bad; cannot be worse!"
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_13350.16"Father," said the impulsive boy with a voice of trembling eagerness, "if you will let me go to college next fall, I'll do my work and yours too.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_18060.16"It's enough to startle any one to be waked up with such a noise," said Ethel.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_44910.16My father's sharp voice roused him.
Collins_Armadale_27060.16he asked, in a voice that dropped suddenly to a whisper.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_145920.15That was the first question which Chaffanbrass asked, and Bridget Bolster gave a little start as she heard his sharp, angry, disagreeable voice.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_236120.15A slight color appeared suddenly on his livid and icy cheeks; his voice though still very weak, became less tremulous, and he exclaimed, in a tone of conviction that startled Father d'Aigrigny and the prelate, "This first success answers for the others.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_108230.15He looked; and while she was thinking whether she ought not to depart, he exclaimed, in a tone that startled her, "Ha!
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_49500.15called a woman's voice, sharp and authoritative.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_53800.15"I think I hear the voice of my father," said Agricola suddenly.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_5070.15said my father to me, in a voice feeble, but still angry and imperious.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_17730.15"But, Father Châtelain," exclaimed another voice.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_21060.15His angry voice drops to a pleading cadence.
Wood_East_Lynne_151930.14returned Afy, dropping her voice to the most insinuating whisper.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_17740.14I cried in such a scared tone that she dropped her work into her lap.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_60700.14"I am well, my father," returned she, in a faltering voice; "and may it indeed please the Almighty to preserve him!"
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_49960.14The weak, querulous voice--that awful longing for rest!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_6790.14Suddenly the Staatsrthin cried out in a startled tone, "Little Ernestine has gone!
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_11270.14exclaimed she, as soon as she could find voice amid her sobs, "It's too bad!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_51900.14These words were uttered in so hasty and low a voice that Dagobert did not hear them; but as Agricola stopped suddenly, with a start, the old soldier said to him, "Well, boy, what is it?"
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_31850.14exclaimed the voice of one standing close beside him, and in a tone of most disagreeable confidence.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_6030.14"Perhaps something worse, father," said Ulric, curtly, "but he would not have grown into a milksop like that, you may take my word for it."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_6550.14John Halifax started up at the sharp tone of command; but when he saw me he smiled.
Collins_No_Name_19810.14Miss Garth started, and looked up drowsily from the book which was just dropping out of her hand.
Bronte_Villette_82030.14I returned to my books; Sylvie's sharp bark suddenly ceased.
Alcott_Little_Women_65670.13Returning suddenly to her admonitory tone, she said, dropping her voice, "If you must have a `went', Teddy, go and devote yourself to one of the `pretty, modest girls' whom you do respect, and not waste your time with the silly ones."
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_9270.13She had taken up a book, but it dropped in her lap as the terrible word 'elopement' fell on her ear.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_4840.13"Give me my bandeau of coral," she said to one of her women, in a voice which, although weak, was imperious and abrupt.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_75920.13He had lain a long time with his face down upon the books, when he suddenly started and listened.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_61490.13A sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the earth.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_12600.13She started as she heard Jenny's voice, and immediately after her sister came in, angry and excited.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_4220.13"To be sure you won't," said a loud, harsh voice, and instantly large drops of water were thrown in her face, while the same voice continued: "You don't have such spells often, I hope, for Lord knows I don't want any more fitty ones here."
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_7150.12He was startled by a big, hearty voice at his side, exclaiming: "What makes yer so down in the mouth?
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_7650.12The black eyes emitted an angry flash, the voice that answered was sharp and petulant.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_37130.12"Hurry," said a gentle, soothing voice at his elbow, "it's wicked to be so angry, and God will not overlook it.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_161470.12exclaimed Ethel.
Wister_Schillingscourt_2590.12It was a harsh command.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_9370.12said a voice, suddenly.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_231730.12exclaimed several voices; "they are `in' with one another!
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_14980.12I exclaimed, startled.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_11540.12returned the harsh voice, even harsher for very grief, "thou hast naught to fear, girl.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_42020.12He suddenly startled Annie by saying, in a tone of harsh and intense bitterness, "Her death made 'havoc' for me.
Reade_White_Lies_26450.12The light, imperious hand that touched that battered cap, and the quiet clear tone of command told.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_30120.12Then, suddenly losing her self-command, she broke out, pointing through the window at Highmore, _"He_ has got a fine boy--to take our place here.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_45840.12Covering her face with her handkerchief, she exclaimed in a tender and broken voice, "Ah, why did Icuting the whole transaction alone.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_89310.12Lady Helena dropped her book, Inez started to her feet; neither spoke, both waited breathless.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_8480.12The harsh voice of the scold died out, and the gentle and courteous voice of Hartsook filled her soul.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_3710.12The exclamation, and the start which accompanied it, were caused by hearing her father's voice close to the door, which had been left partly open.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_25150.12"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?"

Evans_Beulah_1230.15The latter was standing on a chair, mimicking Miss Dorothea, and haranguing her sole auditor, in a nasal twang, which she contrived to force from her beautiful, curling lips.
Broughton_Nancy_30530.11cries Bobby, in a mock hortatory tone, trying to swell himself out to the shape and bulk of our fat rector, and to speak in his wheezy tone, "that a young woman so richly dowered with the good things of this life; a young woman with a husband and a deer-park in possession, and a house-warming in prospect--" "But I have not," interrupt I, speaking for the first time, and with a snuffliness of tone engendered by much crying.
Broughton_Nancy_29710.11Then I mumble off into an indistinctness, whence the nouns "House--warming," "Bobby," "Gold Coast," crop out audibly.
Bronte_Shirley_49420.10He contrived, notwithstanding, to command a little; because the deeper voice, however mildly modulated, the somewhat harder mind, now and then, though involuntarily and unintentionally, bore down by some peremptory phrase or tone the mellow accents and susceptible, if high, nature of Shirley.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_25630.10The crowd was mean enough, as the loafers about a tavern usually are, to give a faint cheer at the prospect of a treat, even though accompanied by words equivalent to a kick.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_20340.08"You--you ought to do it before the whole shop, if you're in earnest," replied Titmouse, a little relenting--"for they've all seen your goings on."
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_23780.08He gave to the white-faced keys a hundred voices.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_177900.08And at the sound of my voice the slaves redoubled their cries and prayers and lamentations.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_178920.08And at the sound of my voice the slaves redoubled their cries and prayers and lamentations.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_71140.08cried the Senator, in an awful voice--"Off; you white-livered sneaks!
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_32320.08Dorothea could not help laughing to hear how like a child Dona Clara spoke.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_43240.06Murray and Graham, struck with sounds never breathed over the vulgar dead, lingered at the porch wondering what noble Scot could be the subject of lamentation in so lowly an abode.
Wood_East_Lynne_1120.05"Killed him!"
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_11550.05Titmouse!"
Cooper_The_Spy_53330.05Do I go alone, or not?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74550.09It is right, noble, Christian: yet it breaks my heart!"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34650.08In the delirium of fever you called my name repeatedly in tones of ardent love,—but then too there were times when your cry for me seemed to come from the depths of a wounded heart and to breathe revenge,—when I spoke to you, you looked at me with strange eyes in which was no recognition, and pushed my hand away.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40950.08The woman spoke in a monotone, but what she said sounded agonized, heart-breaking.

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_240190.14"I was going to ask you," replied the baroness with a beating heart.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_62130.13I know not how it was; for many a long month I had schooled my heart, and taught myself to believe that time had dulled the deep impression she had made upon me, and that, were we to meet again, it would be with more sorrow on my part for my broken dream of happiness than of attachment and affection for her who inspired it; but now, scarcely was I near her--I had not gazed upon her looks, I had not even heard her voice--and yet, in all their ancient force, came back the early passages of my love; and as her footfall sounded gently upon the ground, my heart beat scarce less audibly.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_155960.12Ruby was still loud with complaints against the ruffian who had beaten her lover who, perhaps, had killed her loved one.
Lewald_Hulda_25080.12cried Emanuel, with emotion, " think what yoa are doing I You are speaking to me, to your lover ; your heart has no part in what you say.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_34230.12her heart hurt her so all at once, and it beat so loudly in the deathly stillness which surrounded her that she thought she could hear it.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_25760.11Every word he uttered penetrated to her heart; every glance of his eyes shook her frame like electricity.
Wood_East_Lynne_8820.11The brother and sister cowered together, scarcely daring to breathe; you might have heard Barbara's heart beating.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_256800.11Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and firing by platoons becomes audible, the shopkeeper says:-- "It's getting hot!
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_119940.10It 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.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_2030.10Yet here it was again, and her head was resting against it, while her heart beat almost audibly, and her voice was even petulant in its tone as she answered her lover's questions.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_55810.10noble heart!"
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_2470.10Still later, he got very maudlin indeed, and was heard to murmur, looking at his scarred knuckles, that "he was afraid he must have hurt some one that night," with an accent of heartfelt sorrow and contrition which was inimitable.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_39060.09Then she sat silent beside the half-open door, hearing the murmur of Tom's voice across the hall, and hoping, with all her heart, that he would n't have a very hard time.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_169860.09cried he, in a heart-rending tone.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_64420.09A sigh--from the very depths of the father's heart.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_260780.09Well, Morrel, let us both examine the depths of your heart.
Evans_Infelice_21380.09My mother, from the day when the doom of my love was decreed, has been as deaf to my pleadings, and my heart-breaking cries, as the golden calf was to the indignant denunciations of Moses.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_254770.09Every reverberation was echoed from the depth of Adrienne's heart.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_43380.09Perhaps, perhaps my voice may penetrate him once more, when he thinks of all that we have lived through in common, when he thinks how I love him!'
Cooper_The_Pioneers_62830.09To this assertion there were but three dissenting voices, and one dissenting opinion.
Evans_St_Elmo_48350.09I 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?
Trollope_Orley_Farm_6070.08"I know you think that I have done wrong," she then said, appealing to him; and there was a tone of sorrow in her voice which went to his heart.
Reade_White_Lies_89620.08Stern and indignant as the baroness was, yet these words pierced her heart.
Collins_No_Name_28990.08Those natures, which she believed herself to have sounded through all their depths, had been suddenly tried in the sharp ordeal of affliction.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_61690.08Entreaty, remonstrance, the assumption of hurt and injured tones, were alike unavailing.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_83680.08But his face was bloodless as that of a corpse, and the loud beatings of his heart were audible on the stillness.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_31930.07And I have had time to carry my tired, oppressed heart to my compassionate Saviour, and to tell Him what I cannot utter to any human ear.
Lewald_Hulda_61510.07Why do you listen to the hisses, and not rather to the sten- torian hravas of our country nobles, who quite conquered the few hissera, whose motives, of course, you divine ?
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_12540.06The smile ever rested on her lips in the presence of her parents; her voice was ever joyous, and no sigh, no repining word, betrayed the breaking heart within.
Warner_Queechy_99450.05It is curious!"
Warner_Queechy_32890.05"You said you would."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_12200.05"With all my heart!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_41030.05and then was silent.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_34230.05scoundrel!
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_24770.05A LOVER QUENCHED.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_116150.05"Better not; he is a knowing one.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_52150.05said he.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_52110.05"Yes, I am tired," she said, "but what of that?
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_82030.05asked she.
Lewald_Hulda_61060.05You must not take it so to heart.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_17840.05"And we must have those Jesuits."
Kingsley_Hypatia_72130.05'Is she still within?'
Hugo_Les_Miserables_348770.05"What!"
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_71070.05You loved him, remember.'
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_14370.05I am doing what is right."
Collins_Woman_in_White_90320.05my love!
Bronte_Villette_71800.05I know you all by heart.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_157400.05I was never unreal, but was more than I really am.
Alcott_Little_Women_28510.05My heart!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_34540.05Will the hate, which gnaws at your heart, be without fruit?"

Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_119090.14"You were right, my Lord," said Felton, with a tone of profound disgust which sounded to the very bottom of the heart of Milady, "you were right, my Lord, and I was wrong."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_108080.13Lord Ravenel's case would hardly come under this category; yet the difference between seventeen and thirty-seven was sufficient to warrant in him a trembling uncertainty, and eager catching at the skirts of that vanishing youth whose preciousness he never seemed to have recognized till now.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_106680.12He was an Englishman, lately succeeded to a baronetcy and estate; his name--how we started to hear it, though by Lord Ravenel and by us, for his sake, it was both pronounced and listened to, as if none of us had ever heard it before--Sir Gerard Vermilye.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_71280.11Listen, Lady Chetwynde"--and here Lord Chetwynde raised his right hand with solemn emphasis.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_13660.10and Phillis bustled up to the old lady, who, uttering a loud outcry, exclaimed, "The Lord, Phillis; you needn't done trod on my fetched corns.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_95030.09Every word fell from Mr Fitzhoward with the elaborate accuracy of a separate pistol-shot; and as he became pleased with himself in his progress, and warm with his work, he accented his words sharply, made rhetorical pauses, even moved his hands about in action, and quite disgusted his own party, who had been very well satisfied with Lord Cinquebars.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_81520.09cried Lord Chetwynde, in deep emotion; "what is it?
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_450.09repeated Lord Chetwynde, in a mournful tone.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_94990.08Lord Cinquebars moved the Address, and I must confess that he did it very lamely.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_81580.08asked Lord Chetwynde, in a voice which was tremulous from suppressed agitation.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_141380.08"Do not talk so," faltered Lord Chetwynde, in deep emotion.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_1690.07Lord Nelville demanded so impatiently what house that was, that at length a man informed him it was the madhouse.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_38440.05Oh, what!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_27660.05Go on!
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_15360.05'I must go with him myself, my lord.
Cooper_Pathfinder_14270.05"Sharks!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1070.08Several ladies fainted, and countless voices called out for a physician.

Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_69370.15Lord Badenoch had listened with a different temper to the first breathings of Lady Mar on her favorite subject.
Bronte_Shirley_92280.14And then you speak like a young lady, with such a clear, fine tone, and you sing better than any young lady I ever heard.
Harland_Jessamine_10750.13A 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.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_21370.13The young lady now rose in her turn, vibrating with indignation.
Alcott_Little_Women_14430.12She 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.
Wood_East_Lynne_98700.12The word "stepmother" rose up rebelliously in the heart of Lady Isabel.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_23830.11"Speak lower; if the lady under the bowsprit hear such treason against her favorite, I'll not answer for her good-will.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_14630.10"My father wishes me to consult a physician," the young lady now made answer, in a low, soft-toned voice.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_32880.10Thaddeus had not for a long time heard such sentiments out of Lady Tinemouth's circle; and he now looked up to take a distinct view of the speaker.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_42070.10Lady Mar durst not breathe for fear of disturbing the horrid stillness which seemed to lock up his grief and indignation.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_17510.10Then Mrs. Furnival sank into silence; and we need not follow, word for word, the conversation between the young lady and the young gentleman.
Kingsley_Hypatia_93460.10But to his astonishment, instead of the burst of bigoted indignation which he had expected, Miriam answered in a low, confused, abstracted voice-- 'And did He send you hither?
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_42670.10A 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.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_30390.10"Not sixpence," echoed the lady.
Wood_East_Lynne_96330.09asked Lady Isabel, in a low tone.
Wood_East_Lynne_143980.09uttered Lady Isabel, startled.
Wood_East_Lynne_109270.09I say," dropping his voice, "did you know Lady Isabel?"
Longfellow_Hyperion_9420.09"What young lady with the soft voice?"
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_57400.09(And it is exactly Lady Helena's voice that speaks.)
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_186570.09Villefort ceased to contend; he only groaned.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_31800.09(Lady Janet lowered her voice to a whisper.)
Collins_Man_and_Wife_123080.09Lady Lundie tried the effect of a gentle remonstrance.
Wood_East_Lynne_49330.08repeated Lady Isabel, in a sharp tone of consternation.
Wood_East_Lynne_148830.08And 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_109340.08"I knew her by hearsay," murmured Lady Isabel, arousing to recollection.
Wood_East_Lynne_100330.08cried Lady Isabel, her tone one of bitter mockery more than anything else.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_50390.08"Except Chancellor of the Exchequer," said Lady Glencora in a low voice.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_119540.08Lady Lundie uttered a scream that rang through the room.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_45590.08"And because they are cousins as well," said Lady Macleod, in a softly sad, apologetic voice.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_52230.08But Lady Mar was near the door, listening impatiently to the voices beneath.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_118900.08He could not speak up on her behalf with eager voice, and strong indignation against her enemies, as had formerly been his practice.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_94050.07How long she knelt she never knew, but she was roused by Anne's voice in a frightened sob--'My lady, my lady--come away!
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_36800.07Such were his thoughts when the words of Thusa ha measg rung from Lady Mar's voice.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_14200.07The indignation and strong emotion still lingering in her voice convinced St. Eval that he might urge no more.
Wood_East_Lynne_118910.07Lady Isabel sat with her mouth open, as if she could not take in the sense of the words; and when it did become clear to her, she utterly rejected it.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_74270.07--D'Aigrigny said to the speaker, with a peculiar inflection of the voice: "I think, your highness, we may trust the lady to the doctor's care."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_3330.07"The Russian columns are in motion, Monsieur le Maréchal; the artillery moving rapidly towards our right."
Collins_Woman_in_White_85920.07When I heard that astounding answer, all my thoughts were startled back on the instant to my parting with Lady Glyde.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_70540.07Lady Lundie expressed the necessary surprise, in the properly graduated tone of reproof, at her step-daughter's want of punctuality.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_28080.05"Oh!
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_27520.05But where was the speaker?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_276300.05said one of the two speakers, looking through the window.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_46360.05"I!
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_29900.05"No, I didn't say that; I only mean--" "Well, well, it 's all the same.
Harland_Jessamine_42240.05"Oh!
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_25950.05"That's enough -- that's enough!
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_99600.05Where did you see him?"
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_35780.05"What!"
Cooper_Pathfinder_47790.05"None father?"
Reade_White_Lies_58010.05Go and play first trumpet to some other lady."

Reade_White_Lies_2580.16Riviere, lost in his own thoughts, attended to him as men of business do to a babbling brook; until suddenly from the mass of twaddle broke forth a magic word--Beaurepaire; then the languid lover pricked up his ears and found Mr. Dard was abusing that noble family right and left.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_5850.13Then, assuming a falsetto voice of much endearment, she added: "What, did they abuse and assassinate him,--the dear old darling, the delight of his 'Stasie, eh?"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_54680.10the ear that has never heard anything but abuse is strangely incredulous of anything so heavenly as kindness; and Topsy only thought Eva's speech something funny and inexplicable,--she did not believe it.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_283350.10"Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in useless expenditure of them.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_20500.08shrieked her husband, in shrillest Devon falsetto, "be you mazed?

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_5980.09All at once I heard a clear voice call, "Miss Jane!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19760.06It revealed, too, a group near the mantelpiece: I had scarcely caught it, and scarcely become aware of a cheerful mingling of voices, amongst which I seemed to distinguish the tones of Adele, when the door closed.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48590.06"I believe you must, Jane.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2740.14he asked hastily, but in a gentle, coaxing tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11510.08"And do not think the worse of me, aunt, now that I have opened my heart to you," she cntreated in gentle ° tones.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25840.13The tone was as gentle and entreating as that in which the words ‘ Be kind!’ had been uttered yesterday.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_20720.11"Always ridicule when I look for sympathy," rejoined the lady, endeavouring to lend a gentle, melancholy tone to her harsh voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50120.10Do not leave me so," he said, in his gentlest tones. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_20880.10His voice was now as soft and gentle as it had been upon the moor.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19650.10she interrupted him, in a tone of ' gentle entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2320.09"I never cared for blondes," she added, in her gentle, low tones.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15530.06her grave if she knew it."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16030.06she said to herself, with a gentle smile.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38170.05Her passionate complainings ceased in a kind of stammer.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_22440.05He vanished for eight days, and no one knew whither," he said, after a short silence, in an under-tone.

Cooper_The_Pilot_18270.16There is something soothing to a female ear in the offer of even protracted justice, and Alice spoke with less of acrimony in her tones, during the remainder of their conference, if not with less of severity in her language.
Whitney_Real_Folks_34270.15"That is what I wanted you for, Miss Desire," he said in a pleased, gentle way, lowering his tone to her especial hearing, as he stood beside her in the window.
Warner_Queechy_31140.15Mrs. Carleton, really distressed, tried coaxing, soothing, reasoning, promising, in a way the most gentle and kind that she could use.
Bronte_Shirley_55330.15"Gentlemen," was uttered in Miss Keeldar's silvery but vibrating tones, "spare my locks, if you please.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_42090.15Miss Euphrasia smiled; "sweet," especially in the silvery tone in which Mrs. Argenter uttered it, was the last monosyllabic epithet she would have selected as applying to grave, earnest, downright Desire.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_32940.15She trembled, and her lips moved on seeing Miss Aubrey, who, sitting down on a stool beside her, after laying aside her snow-whitened shawl and bonnet, spoke to her in the most gentle and soothing strain imaginable.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_27360.14"Now, Charles, you _can't_ escape," said Miss Aubrey, presently, assuming a cheerful tone; "now for dear old Yatton!"
Collins_The_Moonstone_83270.14Will you say something kind of me then-- in the same gentle way that you have when you speak to Miss Rachel?
Bronte_Shirley_94860.13"A want easily supplied," whispered the listening Miss Keeldar.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_45150.13He stood for a moment in the doorway, and his straining ears caught the gentle tones of his mother's voice, speaking in a low but cheerful tone.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_9270.13The 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!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_790.13Perhaps a tone more gentle, sweet, and silvery never fell on human ear.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_89750.12I am sorry you have parted with that, my dear; it was one of your best," said Mr. Rivers, in his soft, sleepy, gentle tone.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_33100.12"While there's life," whispered Miss Aubrey, in a subdued, hesitating tone, "there's hope--_they say_."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_77400.12But he had assisted her attempt at love by no gentle word, by no gentle look, by no gentle motion.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_39240.12Even Miss Eulie's gentle patter of words would fall with a sting of pain.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_840.12His tone of voice was soft, melodious, and grave; his pronunciation faultlessly pure.
Evans_Inez_29510.12Mary heard from her couch of suffering the cheerful blending of voices, though nothing distinct reached her ear; and as none approached to soothe her by affectionate inquiries, a sense of neglect stole over her.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_27960.12At first he hardly understood what she said to him, hearing only the sweet, gentle voice, as kind in its tone as it had been before in 'fairy-land.'
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_98770.12I heard the poor lad's fretful tones, and the soothing, cheerful voice that answered them.
Collins_Woman_in_White_57070.12I was still searching with my back to the doorway, when I heard a soft, strange voice behind me say, 'Miss Fairlie.'"
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_41030.11His wife said, in a grave gentle tone: "Would ye might learn to know Him who said, 'Be of good cheer, I have overcome the wourld.'"
Reade_Foul_Play_56280.11She trembled and waited for a lull, hoping then to soothe him with soft words and tones of tender pity.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_20980.11For once her father's manner softened toward her and the tones of his voice were gentle and his words kind while speaking to his first born.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_60220.11Hurry received so little sympathy at his departure that the gentle tones of Hetty, as she thus called after him, sounded soothingly.
Alcott_Little_Women_34070.11"I'm very sorry to hear of this, Miss March," he said, in the kind, quiet tone which sounded very pleasantly to her perturbed spirit.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_37530.11"From whom did you desire a greeting?"
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_26380.11I defy any man to hear the rich tones of Miss Aubrey's voice without feeling his heart moved.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_72200.11And then I 've almost thought I could hear his kind, soft voice ringing in my ears; for it is kind and soft as a woman's, when he pleases, though, parbleu!
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_31070.11Miss Darrell listened to all this, uttered in the sleepiest, gentlest of tones, her brown eyes open wide.
Evans_Inez_210.11The chaplain turned toward them, and said, in a grave yet gentle voice, "My little friends, I am afraid you did not kneel beside your bed this morning, and ask God to keep your hearts from sinful thoughts, and enable you to perform all your duties in a humble, gentle spirit.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_97230.10The gurgling sound of the brook a few steps off was a great deal more soothing to her ear than Miss Fortune's sharp tones.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_118590.10He was now soft and gentle as a lamb.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_11290.10"It is almost too soft and gentle for a man's."
Evans_Infelice_39300.10She dreaming of that golden future that had opened so unexpectedly before her; he listening to memory's echoes of a beloved tone long since hushed in the grave.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_34330.10said Mr. Aubrey, in a low tone.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_6010.10Miss Walton's voice sounded far away.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_41900.10Did it come from the grave, that unearthly tone and word?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_206760.10We desire progress with a gentle slope.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_178820.10said Selim, in a voice at once so gentle and yet so proud.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_40200.10He addressed himself again to his aunt, in a gentler tone.
Collins_No_Name_28350.10"Don't try to speak yet," she said, in softer and gentler tones.
Collins_Armadale_28500.10he repeated, in his lowest, gentlest tones.
Bronte_Shirley_61860.10He moved on, and spoke to Miss Keeldar.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_20450.10"Look not on me thus," she continued, in that same pleading and soothing tone.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_1310.10CHAPTER II Not all the whispers that the soft winds utter Speak earthly things-- There mingleth there, sometimes, a gentle flutter Of angels' wings.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_76420.09'You have been very kind to me,' he proceeded, in a low, reflecting tone.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_41270.09Paul came in, looking grave; and greeted her with a gentle reserve.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_16740.09What anguish curled beneath those coaxing tones!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_12000.09It was the tone of austerity answering the tone of severity.

Evans_Vashti_38930.15Dr. Grey escorted the party to their carriages, and as he handed Mrs. Spiewell in, she said, in her sharp nasal tones,-- "I heard that Mrs. Gerome was devotedly attached to the poor old creature who had nursed her, but she certainly seems to me very indifferent and heartless."
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_15020.14Mrs. Hamilton watched her with extreme uneasiness, and when dinner was over, whispered, as it seemed, an earnest entreaty in her husband's ear.
Collins_Armadale_60360.12Mrs. Pentecost elevated her trumpet, and Allan elevated his voice.
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?
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_20510.12Every word Mrs. Hamilton so gently said on her conduct being more guarded now than when under her eye, her mild entreaties that for her sake Caroline would behave with reserve, all fell on a poisoned ear.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_33850.11"I am sorry I cannot," Mrs. Hamilton replied, in a tone that plainly betrayed to the quick ears of her husband that she was more than usually disturbed.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_30200.10There was something commanding in the tones of his voice, and Mrs. Graham, now really alarmed at the deathly appearance of 'Lena, hastened to obey.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_85930.10Mrs Forbes saw that she had been too hasty.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_129690.10Mrs. Orme was most anxious to speak, if it might only be for the sake of breaking the horrid stillness of their greeting; but she could think of no word which it would be proper on such an occasion to say, either to Lucius, or even before him.
Alcott_Little_Men_870.09said Mrs. Bhaer, in a low tone to her husband, who was looking at the boy with a skillful pair of eyes that marked the thin temples and feverish lips, as well as the hoarse voice and frequent fits of coughing that shook the bent shoulders under the patched jacket.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_42880.09The noise of Mrs. Bruce's carriage disturbed her a little; but she was soon in so sound a sleep that, when Mr. and Mrs. Graham departed, the loud voice of the latter did not startle her in the least.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_22470.09asked Mrs. Forbes suddenly, after a pause.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_55420.09"Law, you niggers," she would say to some of her auditors, "does you know you 's all sinners?
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_22590.09I shouldn't wonder if Grey thinks he has sound Church notions.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_6060.09A groan was Mrs. Livingstone's only answer.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_37000.09said Mrs. Anderson in a broken voice.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_84310.09said Mrs. Hart, in a low voice.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_5300.09"Yes, all is well," said Mrs. Hart, in a low voice.
Collins_No_Name_64890.09asked Mrs. Wragge, in a tremulous whisper.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_19810.09Mrs. 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!
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_6020.09But by a strong effort he turned his attention away from Dr. Small, and listened carefully to the words which the Squire did not pronounce very distinctly, spelling them with extreme deliberation.
Wood_East_Lynne_72540.09murmured Mrs. Hare from between her dry lips.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_84610.09Here tears choked Mrs. Bazalgette's words, for a while.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_108690.09repeated Mrs Forbes, with discomposure in her look and tone.
Collins_No_Name_58180.09"No," answered Mrs. Lecount, with another little cough, rather harsher than the first.
Warner_Queechy_13580.08"It would not do to flatter you so far as to tell you why we waited," said Mrs. Evelyn's soft voice.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_94650.08'I've spoken to Mrs Pipkin, and while you're here she will see that you don't keep such hours any longer.
Harris_Rutledge_15870.08Mrs. Roberts groaned, and turned away, silenced temporarily.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_130990.08As he spoke of Mrs. Hart's miseries his voice trembled.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_8310.08And why was the interchange of greetings, the few words at meals, worth all the rest of the day besides to her?
Wood_East_Lynne_50510.08"I wish I could," answered Mrs. Hare, breaking off a particle of her dry toast.
Whitney_Real_Folks_10980.08I always thought it was rather a pity that was said, _just so_," Mrs. Megilp proceeded, with a mild deprecation of the Scripture.
Warner_Queechy_45010.08If there was not much in the reasoning there was something in the tone of the words to bid Mrs. Rossitur bear herself well.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_153160.08'She don't come back no more here, Sir Felix,' said Mrs Pipkin, in her most solemn tones.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_47220.08Instantly 'Lena turned whiter, if possible, than she was before, and in an unsteady voice she replied, that "she did not know."
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_13190.08It was the energetic voice of Mrs. Anderson rousing the house betimes.
Alcott_Work_44440.08You have done so much these last years you must be tired," interrupted Mrs. Sterling, with a look of tender anxiety.
Alcott_Work_23990.08Mrs. Sterling dropped her voice over that last sentence; but Christie heard it, and was pleased.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_36390.08Mrs. Hamilton spoke in a voice so low, as to be heard only by Caroline.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_1700.07"Why, mamma," exclaimed her husband, elevating his eyebrows in comic surprise, "that I should live to hear you say that!"
Collins_No_Name_103690.07She fell into deep thought, roused herself after a while, and, opening the door, called to Mrs. Wragge to come and speak to her.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_1850.07I should have _liked_"--Mrs. Goldthwaite's tone was only half, and very gently, objecting; there was an inflection of ready self-relinquishment in it, also--"to have had your _first_ journey with me.
Warner_Queechy_106530.07But ears could not be fastened as well as eyes; and the mere sound of Mrs. Evelyn's voice sometimes sent a thrill over her.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_21240.07Ferris's merriment died away in something like a groan, and when Mrs. Vervain again spoke, it was in a tone of sudden querulousness.
Collins_No_Name_89800.07"I was sorry to her that you were ill to-day, from Mrs. Wragge," said the captain, unconsciously dropping his voice almost to a whisper as he spoke.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_900.07I know not yet whether I shall not scold you for this almost needless infliction of pain, and for the deception it involves towards me," said Mrs. Hamilton, with reproachful tenderness.
Evans_Vashti_49980.07It was not unusual for messengers to summon Dr. Grey during the night, and she was not surprised when, some moments later, she heard his voice in the hall.
Harris_Rutledge_7740.07I made Kitty an agonized gesture, which she promptly understood, but which Mrs. Roberts also caught sight of, and was at her elbow in an instant.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_157010.05Oh!
Wood_East_Lynne_88180.05It seemed to be ever so!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39770.22But since Mr. Rochester's visit it seemed spellbound: all the night I heard but three sounds at three long intervals, -- a step creak, a momentary renewal of the snarling, canine noise, and a deep human groan.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_48540.11he said, and sighed and paused.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6690.17She paused, and, after a deep-drawn sigh, said, with an embarrassed smile, "Oh, what a coward I am!
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22120.10It sounded monotonous, like the tones of one making confession from a burdened soul, and was often interrupted by _a long breath or a distressing sigh.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6490.10Now there issued thence, through the carpet-hung window, harsh, passionate mutte rings, interrupted by long-drawn, Bobbing sighs. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_640.10he completed her sentence, with a bitter sigh.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2260.09Claudine heard him breathe a long sigh of relief.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14200.06"I shall not accompany you."

Evans_St_Elmo_81730.22There was a brief pause, and she heard a heavily-drawn sigh escape him.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_29360.20Once, too, she heard a long-drawn sigh, or groan, which made her start suddenly, for something in the tone carried her to Olney and the house on the prairie.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_49450.17A deep sob or a long-drawn sigh alone would be heard, as the venerable father, with impassioned eloquence, depicted the happiness of those who sought the blessings of religion, and could tear themselves from the world and its ambitions.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_56940.16Throughout her long confession she never lifted it; throughout her long confession her voice was never broken by a tear.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_23180.15Here she paused and listened,--he was wont to breathe heavily in his sleep,--but she could hear nothing: a proof that he was still awake.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_53310.15"And now there was heard a great outcry and lamentation, accompanied by deep sighs and bitter sobs.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_9250.15A long deep sigh.
Wood_East_Lynne_97020.14A bitter groan--and it nearly escaped her lips.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_3330.14You are right, there is but one hope, our Saviour, for the sinner--it is mine--" were the broken sentences that, in a voice which was scarcely audible, and uttered at long intervals, escaped Mrs. Fortescue's lips, and then her head sunk lower on Mrs. Hamilton's bosom, and there was a long, long silence, broken only by Edward's low and half-suffocated sobs.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_37520.14Quickly her fading cheek glowed, and her eye sparkled with something of its olden light; but "George,--George," was all she had strength to say, and when Mary, who had accompanied him, approached her, she only knew that she was recognized by the pressure of the little blue-veined hand, which soon dropped heavily upon the counterpane, while the eyelids closed languidly, and with the words, "He will not come," she again slept, but this time 'twas the long, deep sleep, from which she would never awaken.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_16160.14Halbert groaned heavily at these words, but he did not speak.
Harris_Rutledge_4230.13Something almost as human as a sigh escaped from Mrs. Roberts' blue lips, as his steps echoed across the hall, and his door closed heavily.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_42250.13A long sigh escaped him, and he muttered a few broken words.
Evans_Beulah_85620.13A half-smothered groan escaped her, and there was a short pause.
Evans_Vashti_61790.13A long pause followed, and a heavy sigh, only partially smothered, indexed the contest that raged under Mrs. Gerome's calm exterior.
Lewald_Hulda_49130.13No sound was audible in the room save her own long-drawn sighs.
Evans_Vashti_11840.13Miss Jane sighed heavily,--cleared her throat, and sighed again.
Bronte_Shirley_26630.13Here followed an interval of clamorous prayer, accompanied by fearful groans.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_38750.12"Yes," said Margaret, pausing; and then, with a sweet look, though a heavy sigh, she said, "It is very odd how things turn out!
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_57900.12And by so doing put the last seal on my misfortunes, was the meaning of the heavy sigh which accompanied his last words.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_26370.12Arthur groaned a sharp, bitter groan, and rocking to and fro replied, "Must I tell you?
Evans_Beulah_39870.12How long she sang on the present occasion she knew not, and only paused on hearing a heavy sob behind her.
Collins_Woman_in_White_53950.12We both heard distinctly a long, heavy sigh behind us, in the black depths of the trees.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_18970.12And poor Fleur-de-Marie tried to suppress the deep sigh that would accompany her words.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_51290.12A deep sigh, almost a groan, from the bed, reminded them that they were talking too much and too loud for a sick-room.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_78580.12He uttered a long guttural sigh -- there was a contraction -- an extension -- then his muscles relaxed, and he lay still.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_44170.11The dying general murmured a few words more, and turning his face inward, breathed his last sigh on the bosom of his last friend.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_141710.11A cry of horror from Blanche, a low murmur of dismay from the rest, followed the utterance of those words.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_52460.11He sighed heavily.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_10570.11it was almost a sigh.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_41950.11It was quite enough for Mr. Edmonstone; the accuracy of the details seemed to strike him dumb; and there was a long silence, which he broke by saying, with a deep sigh,-- 'Who could have thought it?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_17680.11I had been sitting silently by his bedside; for hours he had not spoken, but an occasional deep-drawn sigh showed he was not sleeping.
Cooper_The_Spy_36560.11said the trooper, riding up to his men; then, speaking a few words of encouragement, he led them down the valley at a rate but little less rapid than his approach.
Alcott_Little_Women_68550.11I forgot my bashfulness, and pegged away (no other word will express it) with all my might, tumbling over long words, pronouncing according to inspiration of the minute, and doing my very best.
Harland_Alone_38830.11Mr. Lacy was bent upon expelling the regrets reflection might beget; and wiled into confidence by his gentle endeavors to induce a trust in him as a friend, Ida spoke freely, though not unguardedly, of feelings and thoughts which had been so long hushed, that their speech was slow and imperfect; but he interpreted and prized their stammered story.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_70960.10she groaned; "and yet how can I escape such an engagement?"
Reade_White_Lies_68080.10"Speak out then," groaned Raynal.
Collins_The_Moonstone_83450.10He looked up slowly, with a heavy sigh.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_15720.10They were echoed by a heavy sigh.
Bronte_Shirley_115420.10"I relieved myself by what should have been a sigh, but it became a groan.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_14180.10Then recollecting how mamma would have shaken her head at that very thing, she regretted the temper she had betrayed, and in a larmoyante voice, sighed, "I wish I could pick my way better.
Evans_Macaria_36690.10The delay seemed intolerably long, and for the first time an audible moan escaped Irene just as Cyrus came back accompanied by a muffled figure.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_2180.10"The blow is a heavy one," said Brandon; "so heavy that every thing else in life must be forgotten except the one thought--how to recover from it; and perhaps, also," he added, in a lower voice, "how to return it."
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_30410.10"He must die," were the words which broke a long and anxious pause, and fell in deep yet emphatic tones from the lips of Seaton; "yes, die!
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_135610.10"Why, I will say that I will do it, of course," said Ellen, with a little smothered sigh of regret, however; "if you wish it."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_93720.10A bitter sigh broke from him as he heard.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_8570.10"He gave a deep sigh, but he didn't say _nothink_."
Harris_Rutledge_21720.10"'There is nothing left in life for me to do,' I said, with a bitter sigh.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_59670.10There was a pause; then May spoke in a fluttering little voice.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_253600.10and a bitter laugh escaped the count.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_63470.05" Heavens 1 And you never told me that before ?"

Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_5960.13I 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.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_19350.11I rise as I sat down, Messieurs," he said, gayly; while he added, in a lower tone, "Sauf l'honneur."
Collins_Woman_in_White_17180.11"Mind you keep that comfortable warm cloak on," said the same voice which I had already heard--the voice of the woman in the shawl.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_122750.11George at once told me that he disbelieved me, and when I sat quiet under this insult, he used harsher words, and said that I had conspired to lower him before the world.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_42380.11A distant murmur of voices, the tones of a harp, were all I heard; and I sat, I know not how long, thus wrapped in ecstasy.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_16890.11Suppose you trust in my assertion, and try the experiment; and if you want a second voice on my side, I appear to your friend Ellen for her vote as to the truth of what I say."
Cooper_The_Pilot_10720.08A word was spoken by the latter in a low voice to a midshipman, who skipped gayly along the deck, and presently the shrill call of the boatswain was beard, preceding the hoarse cry of: "Away there, you Tigers, away!"
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_20120.08Burket, with a distant, respectful voice; "will your ladyship sit down?"
Bronte_Shirley_37580.08; but the impracticable Mr. Helstone presently found himself somewhat deaf.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_24880.08"No, no, no, no," reiterated the lieutenant, in a shrill, half-screaming voice; "no, no!
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_19950.08There was no doubt that Ulric gave the girl up freely .... but he had no time to ponder over it, for at this moment Berkow's sharp voice was heard outside, saying in very ungracious tones to the officials who accompanied him: "And now I must beg of you, gentlemen, to have done.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_50180.08But the pale and trembling lieutenant had no sooner spoken the first word than Mar discerned it was a suppliant, not an executioner, he saw before him, and he was even promising that clemency from Wallace, which he knew dwelt in his heart, when Murray's trumpet sounded.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_56540.08The letters are all ready; the sloop is off the coast; the wind is fair--" "And not a moment to be lost," added a deep, low voice, as the figure of a tall man, wrapped in a travelling cloak, darkened the doorway.
Evans_St_Elmo_18780.07The orphan looked up appealingly, but an imperative gesture silenced her, and she sat down before the table, bewildered and frightened.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_35030.05"Heard you not?
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_11090.05Oh no.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_91880.05How did you know?
Warner_Queechy_141730.05"Do you remember that?"
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_19840.05I think somebody said something about liberality.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_41720.05"* * Ps.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_43750.05"You seem to believe all the Bible says, as if it were actually right before you."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_169450.05"Why, I have seen him."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_70040.05For France!
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_25020.05she begged.
Evans_Vashti_21850.05"Certainly, if you wish it."
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_123560.05what mean you by that?"
Collins_Woman_in_White_96700.05Have you nothing more to tell me?"
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_6740.05Her references!
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_73470.05"Can you read?"

Cooper_The_Pilot_44830.19The shrill, piercing whistle of the boatswain once more rang among the galleries and ceilings of the abbey, and was followed by the deep, hoarse cry of: "Away, there, you shore-draft!
Cooper_The_Pilot_43240.15He had not done speaking, before the shrill whistle of a boatswain rose gradually on the ears of the listeners, until the sense of hearing became painfully oppressed by the piercing sounds that rang under the arched roof of the hall, and penetrated even to the most distant recesses of the abbey.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_37650.14The whistle of the boatswain was again heard at the hatchways, and the hoarse summons of 'all hands make sail, ahoy!'
Cooper_The_Pilot_3700.14The silence was first broken by the sound of the boatswain's whistle, followed by the hoarse cry of "All hands, up anchor, ahoy!"
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_17790.13A 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.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_147030.13The reverend father bowed, and dictated these words in a hoarse and hollow voice: "All our hopes, which of late had become almost certainties, have been suddenly defeated.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_4750.13A succession of shrill whistles denoted the approach of the steamer.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_52690.13As soon as she rose, she blew a shrill whistle upon a little silver call.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_39710.11Exasperated as much by his composure as by his good-fortune, their words became unintelligible, and were succeeded by shrill, piercing yells.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_8860.10And then with the shrill whistle, and "Away with her!"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_169570.10There was a piercing whistling going on in his ears.
Bronte_Shirley_24920.10He whistled shrill and loud.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_44960.10At intervals she blew her whistle, and ever kept her keen eyes and ears awake, looking and listening before and behind, in the hope of hearing her dog, or seeing him come bounding through the moonlight.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_44980.08Dorothy's shrill whistle came once, twice--and just as it began to sound a third time, 'Here he comes!'
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_16590.08here is--" A shrill whistle sounded among the shrubbery, and the speaker became mute.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_149610.08He considered with himself; consulting his memory--visibly, unmistakably, consulting it before he spoke again.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_40090.05But what is the that, that it is, or is not?'
Wood_East_Lynne_96030.05"No.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_80410.05And she knew him too.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_186060.05"How much shall you need?"
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_5470.05It was done!
Harland_Jessamine_20810.05"Not that I ever liked him.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_13720.05and then he whistled.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_128950.05Whence came the blow?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_63290.05"Yes.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_161780.05It was to be thus.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_660.09A 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.

Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_28740.15The smothered noise of gathering steam came from above, and most strange was it to hear the many footed tramp overhead, as we sat upon the sofa, and spread beneath the oval windows all around.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_67140.14It 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.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_330.13screams of infantine rage and feminine remonstrance, feet pattering, and a general hullabaloo, cut the soft recital in two.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_189380.12A moment more, and Marius heard the sound of the two young girls' bare feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- "Pay strict heed!
Harland_At_Last_36350.12no more hearkening, with aching, never-to-be-satisfied ears for the patter of the "little feet that never trod."
Kingsley_Hypatia_39570.11And as he spoke, the tramp and jingle of horsemen rang along the lane, approaching rapidly.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_55640.11"Your ears might not have profited much by the exchange, had you been quicker of foot," returned the scout a little dryly.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_19690.11He thought he heard them crackle, and he stood still to listen; but he could not be sure that it was not the snow sinking and _crisping_ beneath his feet.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_61010.11"You have been so completely monopolized all evening, Dithy," said a familiar voice beside her, "that there has been no such thing as speaking a word to you.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_64070.10Just as the major finished speaking, the distant clatter of horses' feet and the clank of cavalry was heard approaching.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_48560.10I 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.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_91780.10reiterated the Little One with a stamp of her boot.
Kingsley_Hypatia_35790.09moaned a voice beneath his feet.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_3100.09On the stairs there was no patter of childish feet.
Alcott_Little_Women_72130.09with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_30800.08That's the way she takes it," said he in a low whisper, "with a blinking about the eyes and a pattering of the feet.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_25470.08The bough, now entirely dead, which had broken beneath her when she was trying to escape from him, still hung there.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_5720.08Ulric had listened in silence so far, but at the last few words he stamped his foot angrily.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_111560.08And scarce was I awake, when sudden the truckle bed was gone with a loud clang all but the feet, and the floor yawned, and I heard my psaltery fall and break to atoms, deep, deep, below the very floor of the mill.
Lewald_Hulda_14990.08Emanuel heard the closing of the earriage-door, the loud crack of the coachman's whip, and the adieux interchanged by the travellers and those remaioing behind, soon drowned by the noise of the horses' hoofe and the rolling of the wheels.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_1240.07The next moment she was gone, and Richard heard the patter of her feet far up the gravelled walk ere he had recovered from his surprise.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_35170.07Once he spoke in low, quick tones to his companion, and he stirred the boughs with his feet like an animal that is restive.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_37050.06The light Satisfied him that a message was coming, and when the boy cast his bundle of sticks at his feet, it neither moved his anger nor induced surprise.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_14850.05_Jan.
Reade_White_Lies_23150.05"What is it?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_205280.05.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_1200.05"Has anybody come?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50140.07"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_74110.05What will you do with your accomplishments?

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4400.07i " I demand, sir, neither your amethysts nor topazes, nor your purse," she said, with an effort to make her voice firm and sonorous.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12230.07It 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-GoldElsie_9070.06She 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-AtTheCouncillors_44930.05A loud footfall behind her made her look around.

Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_640.22Can 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?
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_8820.20If the object be near the heart the effort will be pleasant to him who makes it, and if it be made well, it will be hidden; but, not the less, will the effort be there.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_47280.17"Are you in too great a hurry, Arno, to spare me a word of greeting when we have not seen each other for several days?
Warner_Queechy_76520.15"How sweet a pleasant message may make an unmusical tongue," said Fleda, as she and Hugh made their way up to the house.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_40980.14She made an effort and whispered some indistinct syllables.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_63280.12I did make one or two efforts which came to nothing; I was obliged to give it up before finishing anything that could be called a letter.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_181450.12'Sir,' said she to me, in a trembling voice, and as if with a great effort, 'do you belong to this factory?'
Harland_Alone_19470.12She heard Mrs. John Dana's voice, then her husband's; and Elle's incoherent response to the efforts made to awaken her; but the stranger was chief spokesman.
Evans_St_Elmo_45700.12Edna spoke with a great effort, and the strange tones of her own voice frightened her.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_11760.12Meantime, Small, by his grave silence and attention, had almost smothered the old hag with flattery.
Broughton_Nancy_41840.12cry I, with emphasis, and to this day I cannot make up my mind whether the ejaculation were good grammar or no.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_35250.12The farewell greetings of the Church on earth breathed soft and sweet in their loftiness, and Friedel, though lying motionless, and with closed eyes, never failed in the murmured response, whether fully conscious or not, while his brother only attended by fits and starts, and was evidently often in too much pain to know what was passing.
Warner_Queechy_34430.11Mr. Carleton was obliged to confess to himself that she spoke intelligently, with deeper intelligence than he could follow.
Evans_Beulah_107490.11The low, musical tones caused her heart to thrill strangely; she made a great effort, and lifted her head.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_16860.11But Judge Pyncheon's evident purpose of forcing a passage was interrupted by a voice from the inner room; a weak, tremulous, wailing voice, indicating helpless alarm, with no more energy for self-defence than belongs to a frightened infant.
Cooper_The_Pilot_34670.10Once 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.
Warner_Queechy_149640.10Looking hard at Mr. Carleton, "Fleda!--Is _this_ the gentleman that's to be your--_husband?_" The last word elevated and brought out with emphatic distinctness of utterance.
Broughton_Nancy_51600.10The better to realize their effect upon him, I give utterance out loud to the many greetings, to the numberless fond and pretty things with which I mean to load him.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_62710.10After this many days passed before these two could get a syllable together.
Bronte_Shirley_58080.10"You cannot go beyond it, and," she added with emphasis, "you _shall_ not, in my house."
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_17600.10"At the great judgment day," whispered the minister; and, strangely enough, the sense that he was a professional teacher of the truth impelled him to answer the child so.
Warner_Queechy_117910.10--said Fleda, almost as much frightened at the sound of her own voice as he was.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_108390.10He thought of this with bitterness as he followed her into the house, but he said not a word of it.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_43330.10But to-day another voice made itself heard as well.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_32580.10Oh, magic of a word from a great heart!
Reade_Foul_Play_51430.10She said in a quavering whisper, "I'm not frightened; only v--very c--curious."
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_68960.10"All right, governor," said the boy, in a quavering voice.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_104940.10'That, I repeat, belongs to your every-day history.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_41330.10discordant enough to frighten the very fish from the shores.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_204820.10Whereas she could hardly bring herself to utter the responses in a voice loud enough for the clergyman to catch the familiar words, he made his assertions so vehemently that they were heard throughout the whole building.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_52450.10Not a limb was moved, nor was a breath drawn louder and longer than common, until the closing syllable of this final decree had passed the lips of Tamenund.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_19620.09Unfortunately, there are great words, as there are great men; I have measured them.
Disraeli_Lothair_10630.09And then, with a sigh, and as if speaking to himself, "And they made it so great and so beautiful!"
Collins_The_Moonstone_60070.09It was unmistakably the voice of a man in great alarm.
Warner_Queechy_122720.09Again the flush came to Fleda's cheeks, brought by a sharp pain,--oh, bodily and mental too!--and after a moment's pause, with a distinctness of utterance that let him know every word, she said, "A generous man would not ask it, sir."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_15430.09Clémence listened to these words with increasing anguish, but the crowd was so dense around the bed that the governor was obliged to say, in a loud voice: "Make way, if you please, for the Marquise d'Harville, who has come to see No.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_9010.09"His voice usually makes itself unmistakably heard upon his return from hunting.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_149970.09A quavering voice replied - "Say, rather, by what magic you, a stranger, can call us by our names!
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_115020.09Yet I had once heard him say that a great love, and only that, makes parting easy.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_9940.09The voice of praise, too, coming from those to whom we had thought ourselves unknown, has a magic about it that must be felt to be understood.
Kingsley_Hypatia_28900.09And yet he faltered as he answered, with a desperate effort,--'To rebuke you for your sins.'
Hugo_Les_Miserables_45070.09They heard a stifled voice crying, "Make haste!
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_5790.09bows on," repeated the other, with great satisfaction; and a little murmur of "Bows on!"
Collins_No_Name_80760.09Under other circumstances she would have been soon brought to a sense of her situation by the sound of his voice.
Collins_Armadale_8060.09Mr. Neal spoke next at greater length and to more serious purpose.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_75970.09I can only say for myself that the very smallest loving word of hers would have subdued me and made a slave of me.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_30390.09At this moment a venerable priest approached the governor, and addressed him in a low, earnest voice, the import of which was to express his desire to make another effort to rescue the souls of the condemned.
Harris_Rutledge_42180.08There was something in his tone, and in the short laugh that followed these words, that brought back so much of what I had been trying to forget, and revived so much of what I had half forgiven, that I made no effort to keep back the hasty words that rushed to my lips.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_9780.08said he, and the sound of his voice made her speak, but in a frightened, embarrassed whisper.
Warner_Queechy_8880.08Her sparkling face told him with even greater emphasis than her words, "I am so much obliged to you, sir."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38480.08The thing delivering such utterance must rest ere it could repeat the effort.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11400.14Strange utterances from the lips of a priest !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32110.09What would she have said to such an outbreak as this, when his tone and gestures had been fairly annihilating?

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_166200.20She had turned from the window, which remained open, and was praying in accents that would have affected the most unfeeling; her words were rapid, incoherent, unintelligible, for the burning weight of grief almost stopped her utterance.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_167090.20She had turned from the window, which remained open, and was praying in accents that would have affected the most unfeeling; her words were rapid, incoherent, unintelligible, for the burning weight of grief almost stopped her utterance.
Bronte_Villette_92160.17I 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.
Reade_White_Lies_87690.13But ere she could drink it, if such was her intention, Raynal, with his eyes gloomily lowered, said, in a voice full of strange solemnity,-- "I went to the army of the Rhine."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_223780.13It seemed strange, that though the crowd was so compact, yet at the rapid approach of this wagon, the close ranks of human beings opened as if by enchantment, but the following words which were passed from mouth to mouth soon accounted for the prodigy: "A wagon full of dead!
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_222630.13At each moment, in the midst of the crowd, the buzzing, and the laughter, the door-keeper's voice was heard announcing some name well known in the financial department, respected in the army, or illustrious in the literary world, and which was acknowledged by a slight movement in the different groups.
Bronte_Shirley_88150.12Even old Helstone, as he walked in the garden, pondering over the unaccountable and feeble nature of women, stood still amongst his borders to catch the mournful melody more distinctly.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_249310.11The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree of excitement.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_33990.11Gabrielle listened in a sort of stupor to this passionate outbreak, which found but too ready an echo in her own heart.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_272100.11Those in the barricade heard a low and rapid whisper, like the murmur of a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste.
Evans_St_Elmo_2600.11Following the sound, Edna soon saw the missing favorite coming slowly toward her, and ere many moments both were running homeward.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_75980.10how full of passionate vigor that thick and rapid utterance, that left a tremulous quivering on his lip even when he ceased to speak!
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_23180.10Sound as a nut on that side!"
Collins_Woman_in_White_17850.09"You are looking at me, and you are thinking of something," she said, with her strange breathless rapidity of utterance.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_152530.09he repeated, with his head down, and his utterance thicker than ever.
Alcott_Work_34600.09cried Christie, as he stood looking at her with this strange look.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_128400.09But, ere either could make a reply, a dire sound was heard of hissing thunder: so appalling that the three actors in this strange scene were all frozen and rooted where they stood.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_1150.09And now that I have cleared my grandfather's name of such calumny, I am ready to hear you further."
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_26880.09A heavy tread upon the piazza, a loud ring of the bell, and Carrie straightened up, thinking it might possibly be Durward, who had called on his way home, but the voice was strange, and rather impatiently she waited.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_37950.08His voice was still constrained and low, but something in it foretold the coming outbreak.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_9950.08Walter followed her, startled, and yet touched, by this outbreak of grief.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_143810.07And I think his coming oppresses Flora--she turned quite pale when he was announced, and her voice was lower than ever when she spoke to him."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_43620.07"So much the worse for the army," whispered the abbé, in an undertone, that was sufficiently audible to the rest to cause an outbreak of laughter.
Cooper_The_Prairie_53950.07Though 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.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_47020.06On this decision making itself clear, across the Rhine there was a commotion in the little party that had been watching the discussion, and the friends had not taken many steps ere a voice came to them over the water.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_50070.06if I had thought that priest would have made thee so sad, Mademoiselle, I'd have let him spend his night beneath a wagon rather than in my quarters," said a deep, hollow voice I at once recognized as that of Pioche.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_8480.05I thought you were translating.
Wood_East_Lynne_115360.05"How strange it is!"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_97610.05"It is very strange!"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_160390.05THE LAST OF THE LAWYERS.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_39680.05Must we take it from you?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_55410.05"Helas!
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_19660.05Yet it was with you.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_159640.05One was to do it, the other was a-egging him on.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_117000.05'I shall be ready, if you really mean it.'
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_28800.05Basset."
Kingsley_Hypatia_5510.05'There they are--whispering together.
Harland_Alone_25060.05here, is passable.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_232880.05"I only wish to be alone.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_61220.05I told him.
Bronte_Shirley_122180.05Strange!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41890.09"Shake hands in confirmation of the word.

Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_740.12"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_Little_Moorland_Princess_41140.10He arose and offered his hand to Use.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20090.07Her mother's femininely-illegible hand- writing, the first words, " Mon eher ami," were a stab to her.

Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_47260.16Her voice, too, when she spoke, was feeble and tremulous; and she would sigh, and shake her head mournfully.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_75830.14the regent's answer laid the interrogator's head at his feet; but the voice had awakened the ever watchful king.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_253970.13Had Djalma sprung upon the half-caste with bloodshot eye, menacing brow, and lifted poniard, the latter would have been less surprised, and perhaps less frightened, than when he heard the prince speak of his treachery in this tone of mild reproach.
Cooper_The_Prairie_16330.13The hound, which had already manifested to the experienced trapper, by the tremulous motion of his ears, his consciousness of the proximity of a strange animal, lifted his head from his fore paws and slightly parted his lips, as if about to show the remnants of his teeth.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_43250.12She took the White King, an Arab Sheik on his charger, in her hand, and turned to those about her, speaking of its beauties and its workmanship in a voice low, very melodious, ever so slightly languid, that fell on Cecil's ear like a chime of long-forgotten music.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_71230.12He 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!
Bronte_Shirley_21620.12These two monosyllables were uttered in a sadder tone than ever; and as she said them she shook her head slightly and sighed.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_64920.11Then, applying his hands to his mouth, he shouted, as if despair lent a giant's volume to his lungs-- "Ho!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_22090.10The good abbé was so old, so very old, that his hands trembled continually, and when he occasionally lifted them up, when speaking, it might have been supposed that he was giving a benediction.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_29650.10My lord lifted his brows ever so little.
Lewald_Hulda_48650.10he cried, as he offered her his hand. "
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_70880.10One syllable had cost your head."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_253940.09After 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?
Wood_East_Lynne_8180.09echoed Barbara, lifting her head.
Wood_East_Lynne_71540.09she said, in a low tone, as she shook his hand.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_24030.09Cecil's voice shook as he answered.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_47270.09"We shall never see the bullocks again," observed Pedro, mournfully.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_49620.09The voice of the king was tremulous with anger.
Harland_Alone_1910.09ejaculated the senior, with a solemn shake of the head.
Evans_Inez_36570.09No sound or movement indicated consciousness; he stooped and shook him.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_80090.09Possessed with this intention (for he was not a sweet tempered man, and his head was aching sadly) he sought for Gwenny high and low; first with threats, and then with fears, and then with tears and wailing.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_52360.08Still, you must not be surprised if long sorrows and much suffering have engendered suspicion, nor that the old followers of a king look distrustfully on the soldier of"--she hesitated and blushed slightly, then added, in a low voice--"of the Emperor."
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_15460.08St. Eval shook his head in playful reproof.
Warner_Queechy_31870.08He shook off her beseeching hand as he rose up, and answered haughtily, and not without something like an oath, that he _would_.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_41760.08Mortimer, his chum, The two were greeted by a friend, "And how are you, boys, Hi, Ho, Hum?"
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_25840.08Then, 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."
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_9810.08Mrs. Baumhagen nodded slightly and touched her daughter's lips with hers.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_3760.08Cecil looked down on him slightly amused, immeasurably disgusted--of all earth's terrors, there was not one so great for him as a scene, and the eager bloodshot eyes of the Ring were turning on them by the thousand, and the loud shouting of the bookmakers was thundering out, "What's up?"
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_60250.08"Miss Lorton," said Windham, in a deep voice, which was shaken by an uncontrollable emotion, and whose tremulous tones thrilled through all Zillah's being, and often and often afterward recurred to her memory--"Miss Lorton, this is our last ride--our last interview.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_35710.08But, as I said, from a whining child it has suddenly grown into a threatening giant, more harsh even than you the other evening.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_59160.07said the veteran Trysail, shaking his head doubtingly and speaking in a suppressed and cautious tone.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_26120.07I 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.
Broughton_Nancy_23930.07says Algy, presently, in a mocking voice, "_might_ I be allowed to offer you our umbrella, and a pair of goloshes to defend you from the evening dews?"
Collins_Armadale_96750.07When he did speak, he shook his head ruefully, and subdued the hearty loudness of his voice, with a preliminary look round to see if the servants were within hearing.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_111010.05Then she paused.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_46210.05.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_77100.05ho!
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_75170.05Ho!
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_34980.05"No names?
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_102740.05"When do you sail?"
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_88860.05"Oh!
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_59560.05"Oh ho!"
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_107920.05"Who am I?"
Broughton_Nancy_70420.05"_Algy_!"
Bronte_Villette_35160.05"Not at all.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_9620.05Now for the portrait."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_42540.05"Will he though?
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_124840.05"Black Esther!"
Collins_Man_and_Wife_50320.05the hero has lifted him on the table!
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_40330.05A slightly shamefaced expression struck her.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14240.17&j with the end of his stick softly tapped the bronze ornainenta of the chimney-piece, thus keeping up a low ringing accom- paniment to what was said. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43030.13The silken trains of the ladies rustled upon the staircase an accom- paniment to the gentle caressing tones of the Princess's voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45610.10The words were scarcely uttered before the rustle of a silken train was heard along the pillared corridor, and Liana entered the vestibule.

Warner_Queechy_17730.09"She has something against you, I can tell you," said the old gentleman, looking amused, and speaking as if Fleda were a curious little piece of human mechanism which could hear its performances talked of with all the insensibility of any other toy.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_57030.09shrieked the Chouette, in a strangling voice.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_22390.08"Come in, I beg of you," he said, his voice grow mg hoarser and hoarser.
Evans_Vashti_31420.08And because it is a solemn, consecrated color, mystic and mournful, I wear it."
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_29300.07Well, 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.
Cooper_Pathfinder_43580.07Young girls are like timorsome birds; they do not over-relish being hurried or spoken harshly to nither.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_9960.05They have taken up that rascal.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_55860.05"To be sure!
Broughton_Nancy_61470.05"Is it?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72550.11"You are too inquisitive, St. John," murmured Mary in a low voice; but he leaned over the table and required an answer by a second firm and piercing look.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_6810.10was the answer: the door was slapped to, a voice exclaimed "All right," and on we drove.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_47470.10I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him, or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27600.10I said, in a low voice: then, looking at her fixedly -- "Did Mr. Rochester wake nobody?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_75580.08"It is what I mean to do," I answered.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67010.08"I knawn't," was the answer.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_54130.08"Did I like his voice?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37350.08asked the familiar voice.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_35840.08Why don't you tremble?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_32420.08"Gentlemen, you hear!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_28800.08yes.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_260.08I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64900.07What unutterable pathos was in his voice!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84660.06"Then I must speak for it," continued the deep, relentless voice.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_26130.05This was a demoniac laugh -- low, suppressed, and deep -- uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_26670.12"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_36930.10"I am no longer angry," she managed to gasp out in at smothered voice.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11100.10"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_OMS_9710.09"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_34770.08I will answer you here.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5910.07"She is not dead I" gasped Felicitas.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14620.07They walked on, and their voices died away.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_1470.06In a. voice choked by sobs her husband promised what she asked.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18630.06asked the Professor, still controlling himself—although the tone of his voice betrayed his displeasure.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40660.18His voice trembled with suppressed pain; but Helene heard in it only anger and violence.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10710.16"Gisela, you will have the kindness to return to the castle upon my arm," said the Minister, in a voice hoarse and suppressed but none the less sharp and imperious. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12420.15Her voice was husky with emotion as she spoke the last words.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_510.15Oh, no," the boy answered, and his voice was gentle and very melodious; "it only bums a little now."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8990.14she cried, and her sharp voice sounded muffled, as if suppressed anger were choking her, while her searching gaze rested full upon the little lady, who looked up to her almost timidly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5430.14"They will tell you that he died in consequence of my want of skill in surgery," he said, in a voice which emotion made almost husky.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50310.13Every word that he uttered sounded half suppressed aud muffled, as if he feared that even a slight elevation of his voice might set aflame some passion yet held in check.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35140.12she said, in a voice that trembled in spite of herself. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30720.12My stifled emotion almost chokes me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41980.12she cried, her voice vibrating with anger.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34850.11she asked, in a faltering voice, but her form dilated proudly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2810.11the young man could say no more, his voice choked in his throat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_6710.11"No, I am not going to sleep," I said, trying to make my voice sound decided.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8240.11"You are no more prudent than the rest, Countess," he said in-a low voice. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48620.11"There I do not blame you," he answered, with a passionate impatience that would not be suppressed.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14860.10"It is I, Countess," said the voice of the Portuguese, in low, trembling tones.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44750.10Pain and suppressed auger strove in his voice for the mastery.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40300.10Was that voice, trembling with nervous impatience and suppressed pain, really his?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17810.10Her fine sonorous voice was thick with rising anger.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2490.10He still looked flushed, and his tone of voice was strangely tremulous; from anger the little girl thought. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22660.10His voice sounded half stifled, as if it were choked with anger and disappointment.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10640.10But the fear of hearing still harsher explanations from the house keeper sealed her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15140.10To me that sonorous voice, although it trembled slightly, re- sounded like a thunderclap from the quiet walls.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_3580.10Her lips trembled, and a shudder passed through her, but her voice sounded firm and gentle.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_1810.09When I stood near the door I could distinctly hear him dictating to the gentlemen in a jerking, gasping voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16010.09"There she lies, my youngest darling," she whispered, and her strong voice trembled and melted to tenderness. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3250.09exclaimed the Countess Trachenberg, whoso quick ears had caught the half- whispered words. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10370.09In a low voice that trembled with rage, she react ' through the first paragraphs, that repudiated her in the most distinct manner.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55900.09It 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_66120.08But Use never allowed her emotion to get the better of her.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17560.08he said, in a broken voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17220.08he gasped.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12970.08he exclaimed hoarsely.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24860.08He suppressed a smile.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_1970.08He could hardly suppress a laugh.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22220.08"And why did you suppress this reproof?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34400.08Was that Flora’s voice?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16180.08This was certainly to be avoided.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33480.07he cried, in a low voice.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15440.07"May I beg for a definite answer?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8210.07he Whispered, in a broken voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5400.07asked the Duchess, with passionate emotion.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_8130.07she asked, and there was melody in her broken voice. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15290.07she faltered, in a broken voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20870.07she exclaimed, in a suppressed tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39390.07he asked, in a voice that was exquisitely low and gentle.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57860.07I have already trembled at every loud word, lest it should be overheard.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32670.07he said, in a low tone, when the song was concluded. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25980.07a man's voice cried to her from the balcony.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21290.07"But she has lost her voice, her glorious voice!"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_11350.07I want to tell you something, Christine is very unhappy, she has lost her voice."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53330.07he interrupted her, scarce able to master his emotion.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32700.07no shrinking from the sound of her own voice here upon this spot?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17320.07She returned in a few moments with a sheet of music.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16150.07His voice sounded hard as steel.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34820.06I alone saw you ; there is no one except myself in the room," he whispered, in low, soothing tones.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50340.06I begged and implored in a beseeching tone that moved even myself.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6130.06he asked, in a raised voice that instantly produced silence. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_24010.06he cried jestingly, but in a low tone of voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41580.06She listened in wonder, his voice sounded so faint and broken.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47410.06and that was why Sir Bruin wished to escape the tongues of certain eloquent ladies!"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46000.06she repeated to herself with trembling lips, as if it were a sentence she were learning by rote.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24030.06For the first time Kitty heard how indescribably sweet her voice could be.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40000.06231 avoided soiling her lips by the repetition of his passionate entreaties and complaints.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47610.06He was standing in the midst of the house- servants, and his harsh voice trembled. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33750.06A door within slammed to, and immediately afterwards the old bookkeeper's scolding voice was heard. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26720.06he asked, in a monotonous tone of voice, as if to ward off other explanations with the ques- tion. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22640.06I followed the brother and sister, who struck into the path leading to the bridge. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38990.06Eckhof lowered his voice, but, neverthe- less, I could hear distinctly every word that he uttered.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13920.06She returned not a syllable to Helene’s outbreak, which had so maligned her brother to stranger ears.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36190.05She paused, and stood listening for a moment to the threatening sound of Eckhof's voice as it rang out on the night.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41800.05Terror almost choked her utterance; hut, nevertheless, she once more took courage, and raised her head proudly, with an air of command.

The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_9220.24His voice was almost smothered in bitterness as he answered: "Nevertheless, I must return.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_9330.23"Loved me dearly, and was n't ashamed to show it," cried Polly, with a sob in her voice, that made her answer very eloquent.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_38720.20As I spoke these words of passion in a low soft voice, Lorna trembled more and more; but she made no answer, neither yet looked up at me.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_28620.19Dantes did not answer; he feared that the emotion of his voice would betray him.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_23500.19Nigel, Nigel, do not mock me thus," answered the king, bitterness struggling with the deepest melancholy, as he laid his hand, which strangely trembled, on the young man's lowered head.
Evans_St_Elmo_5380.18For an instant she could not command her voice, which faltered; but making a strong effort, she answered in a low tone: "Of all that I have lost, and what I am to do in future."
Wister_Schillingscourt_6510.18And she lowered her voice to a whisper and looked timidly round,‘ as if fearing a listener near. "
Cooper_Pathfinder_59560.18"We will not talk of this any more to-night," Mabel answered in a voice so smothered as to seem nearly choked.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_35900.18She felt that she would not have to fear another burst of his passion, and her voice softened involuntarily at her answer.
Collins_No_Name_117440.18His courage began to sink again; and, desperately as he tried to steady it, his voice trembled when he answered her.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_37310.17she returned, with raised voice.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_87300.17she exclaimed, in a suppressed voice, "look there!
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_30260.17"But I do ask you," she answered, with suppressed passion--I do ask you.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_79260.17Her voice trembled with emotion.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_334390.17Jean Valjean lowered his voice once more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_16630.17"I am quite equal to the walk," returned a low, tremulous voice; "but I am startled by the manner of that Indian, Oh!
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_28490.16she asked in the low, concentrated voice of passion.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_48660.16'Nothing, nothing,' answered Ericson, in a strange voice.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_16120.16said Deerslayer, in a suppressed, melancholy voice.
Collins_The_Moonstone_45140.16She screamed that answer out at the top of her voice.
Broughton_Nancy_78980.16"I was very fond of her," he answers, in a choked voice.
Broughton_Nancy_26200.16cry I, in a choked and trembling voice.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_51460.16"Certainly I am," said Baum, his voice trembling with emotion.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_41280.16Irma's lips trembled with emotion.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_6470.16His voice became husky with strong emotion.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_38070.16cried a voice; and now the familiar tone of that voice made him utter a loud cry in return.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_29330.16He had seen them blaze with anger more than once, he had heard her agitating sobs, her voice husky with emotion as she spoke of her father.
Collins_Woman_in_White_52720.16As she said those melancholy words, all the lost tenderness returned to her voice, and all the lost beauty trembled back into her face.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_10040.16"Yes, sir," answered a meek voice; and Fanny clutched Polly, whispering, "You must come; I 'm frightened out of my wits when he speaks like that.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_7170.15Finally Hartmut asked in a low voice: "And--my mother?"
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_38360.15"I thought only of Toni and her father," she returned in a low voice.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_287100.15He called Faringhea, in a voice trembling with passion.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_237530.15answered Father d'Aigrigny, in a low voice.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_52840.15"They say," continued she, while her voice trembled with strong emotion,--"they say he has been here."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_8930.15exclaimed a multitude of voices, "go, and return as quickly as you can!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_89220.15"He will sully it then," returned Lucien; "for I am low -- very low."
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_70150.15It trembled in spite of him, and his voice trembled, too, as he spoke to her.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_42840.15"No," returned Brunnow, his voice faltering with deep emotion.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_47700.15Her voice trembled with suppressed anxiety, though she tried hard to control it.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_52490.15replied Madame d'Harville, in a voice trembling with emotion.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_20480.15"That is something," said Jael, in a low voice; and her hands trembled at her side.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_185110.15He answered in a low, curt voice:-- "My fortune is made."
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_19980.15Arthur did not answer immediately, and when he did, his voice trembled with emotion.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_26980.15entreated the young wife with a voice nearly choked with emotion.
Collins_Woman_in_White_11620.15Sometimes the look was like suppressed anger, sometimes like suppressed dread, sometimes like neither--like nothing, in short, which I could understand.
Collins_Woman_in_White_105490.15she broke out, her face quivering, her voice trembling with passion.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_70340.15he murmured, in a low, pleading voice, "shall I go to Australia to look for your brother?"
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_30270.15It is not on that account we get out of your way, but because,"--here he lowered his voice so that the girl could not overhear his words--"because the ropes broke that day when you went below with Herr Berkow--if you must know the reason why every one avoids you."
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_11820.15said Wilberg, with a reproachful look at Ulric, who had listened with suppressed anger, and who answered almost with a sneer: "Make up your mind to it, Herr Wilberg, the handkerchief is not for you."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_91830.15Then Levi answered in a tone gentle, firm, and low (very different from his last), "Susanna, bitterness fades from my heart as you speak; but experience remains."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12570.12"I beg you, Adele, to let John speak," cried Madame, ungraeiously.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12690.09Madame uttered a short contemptuous laugh.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_183980.17said Madame de Villefort in a harsh and constrained tone.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_185060.17said Madame de Villefort in a harsh and constrained tone.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_45750.16bawled 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_117360.14"Yet conscience remains," remarked Madame de Villefort in an agitated voice, and with a stifled sigh.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_27190.13And--" The faint tones of Fleur-de-Marie's voice were drowned in the loud uproarious cries of the surrounding multitude.
Wood_East_Lynne_148840.12Or, 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.
Wood_East_Lynne_104050.12A 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_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_38530.12replied Fleur-de-Marie, in a tone of deepest grief.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_213020.12He who was thus looking, without being heard or seen, probably heard and saw all that passed in Madame de Morcerf's apartments.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_39030.12"If you would consent," murmured forth Fleur-de-Marie, in a faint, gasping voice.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_94370.11At these words, uttered with the most exquisite sweetness and politeness, Madame de Morcerf replied.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_10450.11"If the marquise will deign to repeat the words I but imperfectly caught, I shall be delighted to answer," said M. de Villefort.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_2170.10A deep, plaintive groan, something between a grunt and a sigh, from the bed on which Alfred reposed, here interrupted Madame Pipelet.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_151340.10"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_The_Wandering_Jew_21580.10Seeing that his adversary preserved a contemptuous silence, he repeated in a sterner voice: "I ask you, why you did not speak out loud to Mr. Burgomaster, when you were talking of me?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_27760.10Just as two of the most furious of the party were about to seize on Fleur-de-Marie a loud, thrilling voice was heard, exclaiming: "Stop!
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_180630.09de Cardoville, in a failing voice.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_244130.09cried Villefort, in a contemptuous voice.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_245380.09cried Villefort, in a contemptuous voice.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_32170.09The 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_54460.09repeated Madame Pipelet, in a loud tone.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_46210.08Faint and far away, as a response to De Forrest's words, came again more clearly the cry for help.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_43760.08echoed the préfet, with a most contemptuous intonation on the word.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_51780.08"Anastasie," moaned out poor Pipelet, in a dolorous voice, "I shall never survive all this!
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_11030.08"I prefer fairies less cold and ethereal," said De Forrest, with a meaning look at the speaker.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_245020.07"Edward," cried M. de Villefort, so harshly that the child started up from the floor, "do you hear me?
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_184720.07The words which Madame Gunther had uttered in perfect sincerity, might be applied in so many different ways--to herself, to the king, and to her who was still unforgotten.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_50440.06M. Pipelet threw himself into his chair, saying to his wife, in a voice of deep emotion: "Anastasie; I do not feel myself comfortable to-day; strange and mysterious things are going on in this house."
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_109590.05'Not in the least.
Whitney_We_Girls_10290.05"You never flinched."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_60250.05said Alfred.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_28360.05"Well?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_340350.05"Madame!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_28090.05"Here it is."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_228950.05We don't know what we have done with them.
Evans_Macaria_16780.05Do let me go!
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_11940.05"O Villefort!"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_50860.05Down along the Corso.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_220.05I never saw her, and she never saw me.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25400.06This sharp little dialogue, in which every word had resem- bled the flame that had just been burning in the heap of gunpowder, had been accompanied by suppressed weeping from the little princes.

Bronte_Shirley_92720.17It has no rugged burr, no nasal twang, such as almost every one's voice here in the north has.
Evans_St_Elmo_56840.13She knew the words were not lightly written, and that his reproachful appeal had broken from the depths of his aching heart, and was intended to rouse her to some action.
Lewald_Hulda_30860.13He heard them, ho saw them written in letters of flame.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_4020.12Glancing at "_granny_," he burst into a loud laugh, and then placing his hat a little more on one side, and assuming a nasal twang, he said, "Neow dew tell, if you're from Massachusetts.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_36670.11The moment dinner was over, Joel came forward, going through with one of his wonderful bows, and exclaiming, with his peculiar nasal twang, "Now you don't say this is you.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_18760.11Here, in the quiet of Boldwood's parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.
Evans_Beulah_27850.10"I should judge not, from the tone of this letter."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_69350.09Where, before, the storm had rushed, with moan and shriek, now brooded a quiet which only the crackling of the flames and De Forrest's resonant nasal organ disturbed.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_15450.09"Something like this I had heard before," said Cora, observing that he paused to suppress those passions which began to burn with too bright a flame, as he recalled the recollection of his supposed injuries.
Harland_At_Last_10530.09But if he had written to me, I should have answered his letter, if it had been only to bid him farewell.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_101640.08"I will write to him, if you like," said Richard; "but I think he must pretty well know the truth from all the letters to Harry and to himself."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_35380.08As far as I am a judge I think your sermon was well written, and it certainly was delivered effectively; for, though none of us liked it, we couldn't help listening.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_8910.08He never wrote, she never heard his name, even Mr. Gilbert had ceased to write.
Wood_East_Lynne_147980.08If we all did just what we "ought," this lower proverb touching /fruit defendu/ would go out as a dead letter.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_136970.08"It is not wonderful," said Ellen in a tremulous voice, "if I----" "It is not wonderful, Ellie, nor wrong.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_29370.08cried a voice I recognized as one of my brother aides-de-camp.
Bronte_Shirley_17460.08He read it in his usual nasal voice, clear, loud, and monotonous.
Reade_Foul_Play_49170.08He uttered the verb rather loudly, but the substantive with a sudden feebleness of intonation that was amusing.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_64870.08The clock in the corner, and the soft sobbing of the flame on the hearth, were the only sounds in the parlour.
Cooper_The_Spy_20080.07If," she added, with a tremulous lip, "this dreadful suspicion that is affixed to his visit were removed, I could consider his wound of little moment."
Disraeli_Lothair_17250.06But I cannot read in a railroad, and the human voice is distressing to me amid the whirl and the whistling, and the wild panting of the loosened megatheria who drag us.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_150020.05"And you mean that she did know it; that she knew it was a forgery?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_17330.05come here!
Reade_White_Lies_27250.05"You can write to them."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_37330.05Twang!
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_48730.05I never knew she wrote it.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_22850.05"Could you but see him," she would say, "I should seem like nothing!"
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_70370.05"Well!"
Collins_Armadale_158560.05"Yes."
Bronte_Villette_93220.05All falsities--all figments!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37280.11The old woman's voice had changed: her accent, her gesture, and all were familiar to me as my own face in a glass -- as the speech of my own tongue.

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1170.05I am blocking the Way."

Warner_Wide_Wide_World_143140.21"But it is extraordinary," said Lady Keith, "how after living among a parcel of thick-headed and thicker tongued Yankees she could come out and speak pure English in a clear voice; it is an enigma to me."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_176120.18This was said in excellent Tuscan, and with that soft Roman accent which makes the language of Dante as sonorous as that of Homer.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_47200.17said a voice, in thick Italian, with a heavy German accent.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_104350.16Some few words passed between them in that sonorous language in which Homer makes his gods converse.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_177060.15This was said in excellent Tuscan, and with that soft Roman accent which makes the language of Dante as sonorous as that of Homer.
Bronte_Shirley_103290.15"She then, for the first time, gave me the treat of hearing my native tongue spoken without accent by an English girl."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_141760.13"But they appear to speak French with a very pure accent," said Danglars.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_510.13Morok answered in the same language, but with a slightly foreign accent.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_9370.13And yet, when he spoke, his English was so good that you detected only a foreign accent.
Broughton_Nancy_26050.13(Then, with a little accent of sudden jocosity)--"One of your foreign purchases, eh?"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_75220.13Tom 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!
Bronte_Villette_96960.13"All these weary days," said he, repeating my words, with a gentle, kindly mimicry of my voice and foreign accent, not new from his lips, and of which the playful banter never wounded, not even when coupled, as it often was, with the assertion, that however I might _write_ his language, I _spoke_ and always should speak it imperfectly and hesitatingly.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_40730.12The language of coquetry was to Lottie like her mother-tongue, and she fell into it as naturally as she breathed.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_62820.12There was a moment's silence, and then a voice, in excellent French, although, with a foreign accent, said, "Welcome, sir.
Bronte_Shirley_47490.12This may be a selfish sort of language--I know it is--but it is the language which naturally rises to my lips, therefore I utter it."
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_32190.12We had one prisoner, as I have said; and it was a long while before we could make him understand any thing; but in time, our men taught him some English, and he began to be a little tractable: afterwards we inquired what country he came from, but could make nothing of what he said; for his speech was so odd, all gutturals, and spoken in the throat, in such a hollow and odd manner, that we could never form a word from him; and we were all of opinion that they might speak that language as well if they were gagged, as otherwise; nor could we perceive that they had any occasion either for teeth, tongue, lips, or palate; but formed their words just as a hunting-horn forms a tune, with an open throat: he told us, however, some time after, when we had taught him to speak a little English, that they were going, with their kings, to fight a great battle.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_15440.12But from the brown face looked forth a pair of genuine German, blue eyes, and the words that issued from the man's lips were such pure, unadulterated German as is spoken only by those to whom it is the mother-tongue.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_69090.11she 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.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_14290.11And then suddenly changing to English, which he spoke perfectly, saving with a foreign accent,--"How did you sleep?
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_9470.11Not that the pronunciation of a dead language is of much importance; yet your accents and quantities have a grotesque sound to my ears.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_67100.11After this speech, which was for him one of extraordinary length and vigor, Mr. Figgs fell exhausted into his chair.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_156020.11I feel as if I were in a strange land, and were vainly listening for the beloved accents of my native tongue.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_5920.11It is not only to the softness of the Italian language, but much more to its strong and pronounced vibration of sonorous syllables, that we must attribute the empire of poetry amongst us.
Harland_Alone_71410.10she said, in thick accents.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_21500.10The latter took no notice of this oversight, however, but continued, in his grating voice and in German, spoken with a strong foreign accent,-- "Are you, too, tired of the ball?
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_37630.10Do not look at me as though I were speaking in some foreign tongue.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_94000.10with a pitying accent, not a quavering one.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_13730.10Can you not hear how indistinct my speech is?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_346550.10He spied on his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the pronunciation was nasal and absolutely unlike the dry, shrill tone which he had expected.
Alcott_Work_35520.10He regarded her with a dazed expression for an instant, for she had been speaking the delightful language of lips and eyes that lovers use, and the old tongue sounded harsh to him.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_10490.10Provoked 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.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_7040.09As the chorus pressed by me I was obliged to advance a little, and I heard, in a quiet foreign accent, delicate as clear, these words: "Nothing, thank you, but a glass of pure water."
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_23270.09Guy 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.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_20580.09Miss Porter knew that the surest method of coaxing her out of her pouting fit, was to flatter her, and accordingly she repeated at least a dozen complimentary speeches, some of which she had really heard, while others were manufactured for the occasion.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_68260.09he added, in pure tremulous English.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_17590.09Another sob was the only reply to this incoherent speech.
Collins_Armadale_99570.09His language, when I did hear it, was confused and ungrammatical.
Collins_Armadale_145190.09He said, 'I speak your language and their language, sir.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_44740.09You had rather have to master the dead language than the live tongues?"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_36780.09"Of course; but that's of no consequence," said Miss Fortune, in the same dry tone.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_96850.09He grew pale and murmured an incoherent denial.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_105850.09'I admit it,' he said in good English, and a rather educated tone.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_51580.09He spoke in a thick and drunken voice, and was by no means too intelligible.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_17370.09He motioned me down on my knees; but as I could not speak Spanish enough for that, I mumble-jumbled something or another, half Spanish and half English, and ended with putting four dollars in his hand for _carita_, which means charity.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_10480.09As he spoke, the voice of the sentinel at the final limit of the German lines (barely audible in the distance) gave the word for the last time: "Pass the English lady!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_234880.09said he to him, in a honeyed tone, which his Italian accent seemed to render still more hypocritical.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_41800.09As she ceased, a measured voice, with a foreign accent, thrilled through her.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_302910.09The words which characterize it in administrative language are sonorous and dignified.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_35470.09She spoke High German with a strong Alemannic accent.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_216290.09A second roar, deeper and more sonorous, and apparently expressive of more irritation than the first, now rose from the cave, the mouth of which was half-hidden by artificial brambles, made so as to be easily put on one side.

Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_17460.23Only by the reverberations that followed--arch echoing the sound to arch, and a pope of bronze repeating it to a pope of marble, as each sat enthroned over his tomb--did Hilda become aware that she had really spoken above her breath.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_348010.11Fafiot is the slang term for a bank-bill, derived from its rustling noise.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_267360.09Inflamed with anger, excited almost to madness by this incessant "stabbing with pins" (as he had himself called it), and offended at some of Dagobert's words, he had spoken harshly to him.
Evans_Vashti_30060.09You are a 'deaf adder that stoppeth her ear.'"
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_60550.07returned Trysail, whose voice the rattling of the throat had already nearly silenced "I have had misgivings--but no matter.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_109720.07But he ain't Mr. Falconer, nor Long Bob neither,' added Bobby in a mysterious tone.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_224220.06[39] A stream of people, who preceded the masquerade, made a sudden irruption through the arch into the square, uttering loud cheers as they advanced.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1980.05"What is all this?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43580.11" My plaidie to the angry airt, to share it a'," rang in the ears of my excited girlish fancy.

Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_3830.14This last act Hepzibah now performed, letting the bar fall with what smote upon her excited nerves as a most astounding clatter.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_44940.14These words made little or no impression on Brunnow.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_144210.14Even 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.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_19200.13and Ariadne started as a sudden sound of steps and voices came up from below.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_19820.12It was dreadful to think so, but there seemed no other alternative, and Fanny's heart grew sadder, and her step less joyous and elastic, while her merry laugh was now seldom heard ringing out in its clear, silvery tones, making the servants stop their work to listen and exclaim, "How lonesome t'would be without Miss Fanny; she's the life of the house, Lor' bless her."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_74670.12said he, in a tone and accent so unlike his ordinary one as to make her start with surprise.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_16210.11The path was beaten so hard that the gentle female, who made one of the party, moved with ease along its windings; though the frost emitted a low creaking at the impression of even her light footsteps.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_32250.11High above all the rest was a voice, whose clear, ringing tones made Katy start up so quickly that, as she afterward described it, "a sudden misery cotched her in the back, and pulled her down quicker."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_149370.10The 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.
Warner_Queechy_112360.10Fleda started at this confirmation of Constance's words; and what was very odd, she could not get rid of the impression that Mr. Rossitur had started too.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_53090.10At times he spoke intelligibly, though his lips oftener moved in utterance of sounds that carried no distinct impressions to the mind.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_11410.10said a voice, that made them all start.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_37740.10cried Fanny, much excited.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_46990.10"He says that is what made him love me," answered Fanny, never calling her lover by his name, but making the little personal pronoun a very sweet word by the tone in which she uttered it.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_64530.09Brunnow gave an angry start.
Whitney_Real_Folks_45590.09The girl laughed out with the sudden thrill of the motion.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_8380.09Mr. Middleton started and answered, "How d'ye know that?
Collins_Man_and_Wife_94830.09Perry emitted a long whistle under his breath.
Bronte_Villette_50930.09And he mentioned a name that thrilled me--a name that, in those days, could thrill Europe.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_21820.09From one of the open windows a fair young face looked out, and a voice which thrilled Mary's every nerve, it seemed so familiar, called out, "Oh, Rosa, Jenny, all of you, I'm so glad you are here; I was afraid there would be some mistake, and I'd have to go alone."
Broughton_Nancy_40220.08coming a step nearer, and speaking without a trace of sneer, sloth, or languor.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_236270.08His larynx, contracted by violent emotion, no longer emitted any sound.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_27360.08His voice excited great surprise and applause, many inquiring vainly who he was.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_34640.08Here, as he was making his way through the bushes that lined it on either side, he heard a voice that thrilled him; it was Anna's.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_42400.08And 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.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_34750.07said Mr. Aubrey, with a visible tremor; and his voice made the hearts of his companions thrill within them.
Broughton_Nancy_28780.07he cries, a sudden light springing into his eyes, and an accent of keen pleasure into his voice.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_40840.07But to bring to us perhaps she would--" "Madeleine," exclaimed Morel, excited almost to frenzy, "again, I say, let me not hear such language from your lips; you make me shudder.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_76770.05'Guy!
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_57530.05Brunnow?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_117190.05'Haven't they been made?'
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_63430.05Why need this be so?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_158070.05Then I could start them."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_85860.05"This shall never be again.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_51340.05She started with horror.
Lewald_Hulda_54990.05Michael asked, with a sneer.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_940.05.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_268230.05"Open, nevertheless."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_106500.05She was sure that they knew one another; but neither of then would speak to the other.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_20670.05Vervain."
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_19420.05"Why, I don't see how it's to be helped, Fanny.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_37960.05"I have it exactly.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_21530.05She looked at him in surprise, but she said nothing.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_22820.05said I.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_78540.05"It is done and over.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_70790.05"No!"
Collins_Man_and_Wife_31360.05Arnold started.
Collins_Armadale_162560.05Let him!
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_69780.05It never does.
Broughton_Nancy_71420.05We are on the point of starting now.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_2090.05I shall be killed if -- " "Silence!

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33330.22It was already twilight; the most profound quiet reigned throughout the house,—the striking clocks had been stopped,—the window shutters were closed that the rustling of the leaves without might not be heard,—not even a fly buzzed,—for Ferber had tenderly taken care that nothing should disturb the stillness that surrounded the sleeper.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50580.11She had, by a gentle gesture, scared away the robin that, accustomed to find crumbs scattered for him upon the window-sill, had boldly ventured into the room, his gentle twitter sounding alarmingly loud in the profound silence, in which each gasping breath issuing from the narrow chest was painfully audible.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_42370.08Again there was perfect silence, broken only by a faint rustling of the brocade curtain. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21560.06the old lady cried, her soft and carefully-modulated voice sounding almost harsh in the intense quiet that had reigned in the room.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_151230.18I looked carefully around; I was indeed alone,--no noise disturbed the silence but the owl, whose piercing cry seemed to be calling up the phantoms of the night.
Broughton_Nancy_50180.15We have been sitting in perfect silence for a long while; no noise but the click of Barbara's knitting-pins, the low flutter of the fire-flame, and the sort of suppressed choked _inward_ bark, with which Vick attacks a phantom tomcat in her dreams.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_41680.14She did not laugh after this childish speech, but let her face settle into perfect stillness--sadness indeed, for a shadow came over the stillness.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_152040.14I looked carefully around; I was indeed alone, -- no noise disturbed the silence but the owl, whose piercing cry seemed to be calling up the phantoms of the night.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_60590.11Hardly a sound disturbed the stillness, save the monotonous eloquence of the gentleman who occupied the floor.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_62570.10And the tone in which he spoke--though too carefully guarded to be a tone of triumph--was, to a fine ear, unmistakably a tone of relief.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_32800.10They did not disturb the stillness by more words.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_7800.10Gentle, but languid and despondent.
Evans_Inez_23150.10Silence reigned over the town.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_109030.09The silence of death reigned in the room.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_30320.09Here the only sounds disturbing the stillness were steady munchings of many mouths, and stentorian breathings from all but invisible noses, ending in snores and puffs like the blowing of bellows slowly.
Evans_Beulah_83190.08The bells were all muffled, and a solemn stillness reigned over the mansion.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_232390.08For a few moments, not a word, not a cry, disturbed the stillness of the solemn cathedral.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_99470.08But suddenly the cruel guard shouted in at the door his monotonous "Five minutes for refreshment!"
Cooper_The_Pilot_53600.07"And for which there is so much the more occasion to be prepared," the chaplain ventured to add, in a low, humble, and, perhaps, timid voice.
Evans_Beulah_43320.07Beulah knew that hearses still bore the dead to their silent chambers; she could hear the rumbling, the melancholy, solemn sound of the wheels; but firm trust reigned in her heart, and, with Clara's hand in hers, she felt an intuitive assurance that the loved one would not yet be summoned from her earthly field of action.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_25830.06The thundering of the guns, which, even at the distance I was at, was plainly heard, announced that an attack had taken place, but it by no means prepared me for the scene which presented itself on my return.
Evans_Vashti_27870.06He was opening his lips to call the girl's name, when he fancied he saw something move slightly, and simultaneously a human voice smote the oppressive stillness.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_48560.06The perfect stillness struck me, save when a deep voice called for "another brandy-and-water," and some more modestly-toned request would utter a desire for "more cream."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_20140.05"Well!"
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_9820.05"What!
Broughton_Nancy_36920.05More silence.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_16550.05The little prince awoke.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2030.08"I of all others," she said, with emphasis, as she pressed the carpet with her foot; "I of all others, because I cannot endure to keep anything hidden in the depths of my soul.

Longfellow_Hyperion_15400.14And the words were recorded above; and a voice repeated them with awful distinctness in the blue depths overhead, and Flemming felt in his inmost soul the contrast between the holy heavens, and the mockery of laughter, and the idle words, which fall back from the sky above us and soil not its purity.
Kingsley_Hypatia_25800.13And a whisper thrilled through the inmost depth of his soul--'Is there a Gospel?
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_5840.11Though their dialogue was maintained in low and cautious sounds, but little above a whisper, Heyward, who now approached, could easily distinguish the earnest tones of the younger warrior from the more deliberate speeches of his seniors.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_46010.11"Could n't help it tried not to but it was so hard you know, Fan, you know," said a stifled voice from the depths of the very fuzzy cushion which Tom had once condemned.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_49360.10They can all say, 'Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee,' and it is they alone who have been down into the depths, and had rich experience of what God could be to His children there, who can utter such testimonials to His honor, as those I have just repeated."
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_25190.10The particulars of the tradition he had never heard, and consequently it was always with a smile of disbelief he listened to the oft-repeated injunction not to walk at dusk in the western turret.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_24540.09There was something appalling in the depth and intensity of this calm with such accompaniments.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_166120.08And then who does not know how much tenderness a man may show to his own faults by the tone of his voice, by half-spoken sentences, and by an admixture of words of love for the lady who has filled up the vacant space once occupied by the Mrs Hurtle of his romance?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_7880.08A low murmur of grief, no longer repressible, ran through the little group around the litter.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_39590.08he repeated,--and there was such urgent entreaty in his voice that it stirred the very depths of Ernestine's soul.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_34880.08Then he said, in a low voice which seemed like a groan wrung out by anguish from his inmost soul: "Oh, my God!
Reade_White_Lies_33430.07When he said that, with an unnatural and monotonous calm such as precedes deliberate suicide, it flashed in one moment across Rose that it was much best he should think so.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_29050.07He paused opposite to Caroline, took both her hands in his, and spoke in a voice which, though low, was so solemn that it thrilled to her inmost soul.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_142900.05It was not to be.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_108240.05Yes she had said it before, and she would say it again.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_34250.05"Yes, I have seen him.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_204070.05what work!"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_27100.05"I know nothing; we know nothing of her or what she has been doing.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_49530.05Don't be misthering me!
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_114620.05"So I do, God knows.
Evans_Vashti_22290.05"No; I cannot even conjecture.
Bronte_Shirley_71310.05"Their discharge preceded his.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_12250.05"No!

Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_41610.17"Mr. Hemstead," said Lottie, in a low tone, "I have felt very strangely--differently from any time before in all my life--since last Sunday afternoon.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_102420.13And at one side (also underlined) was the ominous word, "_Private._."
Reade_Foul_Play_950.12"Yes, I am in great anxiety," said a quavering voice at his, elbow; and Mr. Adams actually pushed by the butler, and stood, hat in hand, in those sacred precincts.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_110830.12"They will be all ashore on Zealand before the afternoon," murmured Amyas; "and I have lost my labor!
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_54250.12"Well, I'm glad to hear you say so: I thought they had ruined you, destroyed all your philosophy--but it will be all right again--you shall come to our societies, Jack--I am president--you shall hear me speak, Jack--you shall hear me thunder like Demosthenes--but here comes the tray."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_64960.12So, in a single breezy moment, it was arranged, Hemstead scarcely having a voice in the matter.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_111870.12And Jack went down, and talked in a half-terrified whisper of Amyas's ominous words.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_4550.10There was a dead silence for a moment among the gentlemen round; and then Sir Richard said solemnly, and in a low voice, turning away from the old dame,-- "Amyas, Mr. Oxenham has not come home; and from the day he sailed, no word has been heard of him and all his crew."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_15690.10His voice was powerful, and not unpleasant when used within the precincts of a court, though it grated somewhat harshly on the ears in the smaller compass of a private room.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_69820.10Lottie again took out her watch, and said, in the low tone which we use in the presence of the dying, "Mr. Hemstead, the old year is passing; there is but a moment left."
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_21900.10"Well, I can understand it," said Hemstead, emphatically.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_2640.10"Of whom I am chief," said his father, emphatically.
Collins_No_Name_53750.09She confided nothing to my private ear but the expression of her best thanks.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_75030.09Listen then to my voice, prince of the blood of Alexander!
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_119940.08"There is no society about him," said Miss Sophia; "he don't say two dozen words a day."
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_94550.08The crew tittered: Amyas felt much more inclined to cry.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_21250.08The abstraction that had been on Hemstead's face passed to Lottie's, and she heard with inattentive ear the young farmer say with hearty emphasis, "We present you, as an expression of our good-will, with two hundred and fifty dollars."
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_53980.08The butler made his appearance at this last summons, and he was followed by Mesty, who looked like a demon with anger.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_46670.07"Certainly; and that is why I wish to prevent you from drifting into trouble: and it's not right for you to get him into--" Lottie's warning gesture was so emphatic that Bel paused.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_29300.07"I fear he will come to the gallows," said the Lord Chief Justice, sinking his voice below the echoes; "tell him this from me, Jack.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_10800.07Uncle Reuben was there, and Mr. Gilbert remained with him until Aunt Hetty's voice was heard calling them to supper.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_9160.05"Where are we?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_41380.05"Why, one never can know what he can say or do.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_13510.05"Hum!"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_43830.05"But you came.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_50440.05'They?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_85890.05"What are you going to do?"
Collins_No_Name_76370.05This is serious.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14010.09Loud exclamations, laugh- ter, and ringing, girlish voices sounded more and more distinctly, until we suddenly saw gay-coloured rings ^88 THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.

Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_65830.16The bells had scarcely done ringing for the happy event at Huntercombe, when joyful feet were heard running on the stairs; joyful voices clashed together in the passage, and in came a female servant with joyful tidings.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_48040.15cried Wallace, in a voice whose thundering mandate rung from tower to tower.
Evans_St_Elmo_41940.12He took it, glanced at the small, cramped, school-girlish handwriting, smiled, and thrust it into his vest pocket, saying in a low, earnest tone: "This is, indeed, a joyful surprise.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_8130.11A confirmatory murmur arose as each looked into the bottom of his tumbler, and the bell was instantly rung.
Bronte_Villette_800.11Ere long, a voice, issuing from the corner, demanded-- "May the bell be rung for Harriet!"
Wood_East_Lynne_25200.10A bad man, a /bad/ man, was Mount Severn," he emphatically added, as he rose and rang the bell.
Bronte_Villette_52600.09I wish Harriet would come to me," said the girlish voice, faintly.
Collins_Woman_in_White_16250.09"I don't know why," she said in low tones, "but there is something in this suspicion of yours that seems to startle and unnerve me.
Bronte_Villette_50800.09Simultaneously came a clangor of the distant door- bell.
Evans_Infelice_10530.09Thrusting her fingers into her ears, Regina fled down the walk out of the yard, anywhere to escape the sound and sight of that broken-hearted woman, whose cry was indeed _de profundis_.
Alcott_Little_Women_39970.07Yes, there was a sound of bells at the door below, a cry from Hannah, and then Laurie's voice saying in a joyful whisper, "Girls, she's come!
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_19350.05.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_18300.05"Oh, I see your thought.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_13690.05Shall we go somewhere else?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_138280.05"What is your name?"
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_47830.05rang through the bay.
Alcott_Work_33590.05"Yes."

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_40020.17Her gentle, melodious tones sounded doubly sweet in these apart- ments once the witnesses of matrimonial bickerings and dis- putes.

Warner_Queechy_2680.15"Brother," said Mr. Ringgan, lowering his tone again, "have you any loose cash you could let me have for six months or so?"
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_34780.13If 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.
Broughton_Nancy_41870.12"_Not at all?_" The words are the same as those employed by Mrs. Huntley; but there is much more alacrity and liveliness in the tone.
Bronte_Shirley_144260.10From Spain the voice of a trumpet has sounded long; it now waxes louder and louder; it proclaims Salamanca won.
Wister_Schillingscourt_3290.09Veit fell there; he explored your hidden passage to the room of the next house," she said in a low voice that sounded hard and inexorable as fate. "
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_280970.09He 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.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_13500.08said 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!"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58510.11"The devil is in it if you cannot answer distinctly.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_18590.09which, when first heard, had thrilled me: I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs; stranger than her laugh.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_38500.07And overhead -- yes, in the room just above my chamber-ceiling -- I now heard a struggle: a deadly one it seemed from the noise; and a half-smothered voice shouted - "Help!
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60010.06But, then, a voice within me averred that I could do it and foretold that I should do it.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_32480.12she cried in a clear ringing voice,—and at the same moment she heard the loud barking of a dog near her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34720.10The grinding of the coffee-mill was heard in the kitchen; perhaps that harsh noise, and not, as she had suspected, her appearance, had terminated the reconciliation scene thus quickly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7540.09She lay there breathing heavily, without moving a limb; but when Use, in such tender, imploring tones as I had never dreamed to hear from her lips, called her by name, she opened her eyes for one moment and looked at her intelligently.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44250.09I heard her gasping voice say again, " Use, put the necklace upon the child's neck.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15830.06alone suited to his lungs.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_28700.06It was as gentle again as if it could not scold. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_43470.06Bertha shouted again.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41310.06Do you not hear them laughing already?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38790.06"Patience for a moment!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62490.06matter, the Duke, do you hear f Do you know what that means ?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_5930.05How terribly the long, silent voice vibrated !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_50360.05Well, then, you shall have what you desire," he said, after an instant's reflection, in a voice that vibrated strangely.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_29060.05I don't mean to offend, Fraulein," I heard Use say in the distance ; " but I think it a disgusting habit.

Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_21210.20Scarcely was the other bottle called for when we heard the landlord calling out in a stentorian voice,-- "'Two horses for Goran Bridge to meet Counsellor Kinshella.'
Hugo_Les_Miserables_194210.17The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thenardier's voice shouted:-- "Don't harm him!"
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_19750.16He called aloud on Macgregor.
Harland_Jessamine_18360.16Dear, _dear_ Roy!
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_7870.15"If I can hear them, they can hear me," thought she, and shouting as loud as she could, she soon heard Mr. Parker's voice in answer, saying he would come directly.
Collins_The_Moonstone_30230.15But," says the Sergeant, with the first tone of impatience in his voice that I had heard yet, "the mystery is--what the devil has she hidden in the tin case?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_160450.15"Forbear," he cried, in a stentorian voice.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_29330.15I see her and hear her, at this moment, as plainly as I see and hear you.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_105270.15Then, throwing himself back in his carriage, Danglars called out to his coachman, in a voice that might be heard across the road, "To the Chamber of Deputies."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_3480.14You know He has said of His children: 'Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.'"
Kingsley_Hypatia_86400.14As she approached the door, she heard loud voices within....
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_10320.14The Senator shouted this one word in a stentorian voice.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_41570.14I thought I heard her voice, I saw her move; my limbs trembled; my hands tingled; I rang the bell, ordered my trunks back again to No.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_5420.14I replied; for I had heard the jaw-breaking name, which is dearer to many (though they, alas!
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_15530.14But in a moment all gave way before the one thought,--I should see her again, speak to her and hear her voice.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_36640.13At this moment, when the confusion had reached its height, and the horses were unharnessed from the guns, the men standing in groups around or shouting wildly to one another, a sullen silence spread itself over the whole, and a loud, stern voice called out,-- "Who commands this division?"
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_33550.13Katrine hears a man stamping the snow from his boots, hears the captain's fresh, cheery voice as he answers his friend's questions.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_18540.13"I hope you are duly gratified, Baron," a discordant voice calls out.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_820.13Mother's voice was very soft and gentle as she asked, "Do you call this 'scolding,' my child?"
Marryat_Peter_Simple_68110.13Swinburne had made his retreat the moment that he heard the voice of the captain.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_8090.13I shouted, I called aloud, I opened the sash, and tried if any one outside were within hearing; but in vain.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_273560.13They heard a manly voice shout:-- "Vive la France!
Lewald_Hulda_37830.13She did not know why these words should recur to her just at this moment, but they rang in her ears as distinctly as if they had been spoken aloud at her side, and all the events of th.e morning when she had seen the man came back vividly to her memory.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_14820.13She called aloud for such comfort and grandeur as Yarmouth could afford her, and was well pleased that all around should hear her calling.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_17120.13But instead of an answer we heard the chairs pushed back, and then Klaus's voice again: "'Ah!
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_60120.13"Goodbye Hurry -" she called out, in her sweet voice - "goodbye, dear Hurry.
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!"
Cooper_The_Pilot_3060.12"We shall need both eyes and leads," returned the pilot, recurring insensibly to his soliloquizing tone of voice.
Collins_No_Name_43780.12shouted the captain, pointing to his wife's heavy flat feet as they shuffled across the room.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_51060.12Mr. Robert Audley," she said, aloud, in a low, clear voice; "I will not go back--I will not go back.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_13730.12He had heard many other voices since, some coaxing and flattering, some intoxicating and enthusiastic, but this voice sounded so grave and yet so sweet in the rustling of the forest trees--the fatherland spoke to the lost son!
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_28020.12The minister would have consoled her; he was used to tears, and could in most cases withstand their contagion manfully; but something choked his voice suddenly, and when he called upon it, he got no answer, but a tremulous movement of the muscles, which was worse than silence.
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."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_123750.12Alarmed at the sight, Adrienne in vain called to Agricola in a low voice, to bid him beware.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_31490.12Let us follow him a moment, as, pointing to each word, and pronouncing each half aloud, he reads, "Let--not--your--heart--be--troubled.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_35650.12A cavalry trumpet, too, at this moment sounded a call that aroused us from our trance of pleasure, and warned us that our moments were few.
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.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_19670.12Very often he could even hear their words, especially the landlord's, for he spoke in a coarse, loud voice, and had a more boastful manner than any of his customers.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_18080.11You will hear and be heard of.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_48200.11I ain't heard one go by yet."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_33560.11You don't call that a shipwreck; do you?"
Marryat_Peter_Simple_42380.11"`Only just to call and hear what's going on.'
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_6590.11he called aloud.
Kingsley_Hypatia_14030.11shouted many voices.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_102810.11-- `It is I,' shouted a voice.
Collins_Woman_in_White_3880.11"Did you hear anybody calling after us?"
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_73450.11Did he ever hear of this case?
Bronte_Shirley_124610.11I heard it all.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_50990.11She 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.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_50510.11"Put your ear close, Ellen, and hear the quiet way he is purring to himself--do you hear?--that's his way; he very seldom purrs aloud."

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31110.08I wished the tones could have sounded abroad over my wide moorland ; these walls re-echoed them too piercingly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52630.07"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?"

Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_70600.19Not only this, but they loudly cheered, when they saw four or five red coats lie low; for which savage feeling not even the remarks of the Devonshire men concerning their coats could entirely excuse them.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_54950.17There was a wild yell; some said it was a cheer; I thought it like a drowning cry,--and I remember no more.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_21370.16In a few moments the doubt seemed resolved, for scarcely did the horses appear in sight when a perfect yell rose from the crowd and drowned the cheers of their opponents.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_38550.16But so soon as they were observed the whole of the juvenile pack raised, by common consent, a shrill and warning whoop; and then sank, as it were, by magic, from before the sight of their visitors.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_17730.13whoop--" a loud yell accompanying the toast as he drank it.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_38260.12But if this feeling animated me, it also nerved my antagonists, for their resistance rose with every moment, and as they drove us back from their walls, cheers of triumph rang out and proclaimed the victory.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_29960.12But the people, who were in the cheering humor, cheered Hannah and the justices, and then cheered Ralph again.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_66730.11Jack 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.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_36060.11How long this fearful struggle would have continued, or who would finally be victor, was undecided still, when suddenly the wild mocking laugh of madness sounded in the very ear of Nigel, and a voice shouted aloud, "Fight on, my bonny lord; see, see, how I care for your winsome bride," and the maniac form of Jean Roy rushed by through the thickest ranks of the men, swift, swift as the lightning track.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_61190.10Having risen to its feet, this living death, in a sleepy voice and with a tongue hardly awake, held forth as follows: I am that Merlin who the legends say The devil had for father, and the lie Hath gathered credence with the lapse of time.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_21110.10shouted a voice from the College; and in the loud cry the yells of their opponents were silenced, but only to break forth the next moment into further license.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_30600.10If 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."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_39770.09said the corporal; "can't you hear the cheering?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_8390.09His words were re-echoed by the whole party, with vociferous cheers.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_8430.09His words were re-echoed by the whole party, with vociferous cheers.
Collins_Woman_in_White_67060.09I then rose, said my last cheering words, and wished her good-night.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_30280.08The other gentlemen were tolerably well agreed in pronouncing her heart affected."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_74170.08"He won't fight," said the major, blurting out the words as if they would choke him.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_75960.08"And that is but just," said Athos, and he took aside the one of the four Englishmen with whom he was to fight, and communicated his name in a low voice.
Disraeli_Lothair_18440.08For your own sakes -- " but here a yell arose which forever drowned his voice.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_25710.08When 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.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_10960.08There was gloomy care in his look, and the deep weariness of which he spoke re-echoed in his voice.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_110430.08"And that you alone, amongst the men whom you do not recognize as your brothers--for you have said so," observed Villefort in a tone that faltered somewhat--"you alone are perfect."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_70550.08The tale was told me by one side first; and then quite to a different tune by the other; and then by both together, with very hot words of reviling and a desire to fight it out again.
Wood_East_Lynne_97260.05I did not think you could get away.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_8270.05"Then what does it mean?"
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_71380.05But come, let me cheer you up.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_36590.05Let me go for you--please do."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_73730.05said I.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_249070.05"Who said that you were to go away?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_242350.05"Oh!"
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_13340.05"For I really wish he'd go."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_60990.05yelled the chorus.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_55890.05"And then?"
Bronte_Shirley_53640.05However, it is not yet come to fighting.
Bronte_Shirley_52160.05Was it you, or Moore, who lingered so?"
Bronte_Shirley_133580.05asked Moore.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_8410.46At 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_8450.46At 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.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_21550.13By your testimony," he added, smiling to the youths, "she can tread a measure.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_30220.10By 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.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_29900.09They were sure of catching them; for this was not the first time the parties had measured speed.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_78820.08These few words were all he spoke; and the next moment the measured tread of a column was heard behind us.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_15660.08The crowd divided instantaneously, and in moving set up a cheer that must have rang through all the town.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_114020.05I wish you had seen her.
Warner_Queechy_151150.05"About my being a help to you!"
Reade_White_Lies_9690.05"Takes whom?"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_33170.05hum!
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_103750.05We must do before we can know.'
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_18300.05What's the measure?"
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_38210.05"Of course she'd be to hum,--where else should she be!"
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_14110.05What was it she had to tell?
Harland_Jessamine_1050.05"I did!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_213810.05asked he.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_134610.05See!
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_6300.05did you ever see it before?"
Cooper_The_Pilot_29580.05Eugene?"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_9250.05"Indeed!
Alcott_Little_Women_15630.05"That's a fib!"

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_12630.35Villefort, 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_12570.33Villefort, 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_26420.23So 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_26490.23So 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.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_40420.10I 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.
Cooper_The_Pilot_29860.09ejaculated the captain, with his philosophic indifference of manner entirely re-established, "this must be a Roman legion just awoke from a trance of some seventeen centuries, and that the voice of a centurion.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_62390.07But," exclaimed she, raising her voice and chuckling as she spoke, "they shall fall into their own snare; for I will dupe every one of them yet!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_50220.07answered the abbe; "Edmond related to me everything until the moment when he was arrested in a small cabaret close to Marseilles."
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_38540.07The governor then went out, and words of pity fell on Dantes' listening ears, mingled with brutal laughter.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_21530.05glou!"
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_15460.05"No, I thank you.
Kingsley_Hypatia_77580.05He shall come!
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_66070.05'Still, he was a lover?'

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83270.13He gave each one quiet kiss, said in a low tone a few words of welcome, stood a while to be talked to, and then, intimating that he supposed they would soon rejoin him in the parlour, withdrew there as to a place of refuge.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70630.09These 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_18240.09The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39450.09He made some sort of arrangement without speaking, though I heard a low voice address him: he came out and closed the door behind him.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_67170.08In such a voice as might be expected from a hopeless heart and fainting frame -- a voice wretchedly low and faltering -- I asked if a servant was wanted here?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_83870.07"In such earnest that I must have it so: and I will tell you why."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74680.07she demanded, in a low voice.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37210.12she rejoined in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27440.08"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_27230.07With all the selfcontrol that he could command, he took a different tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_7330.07asked Frau Ilellwig, in a cutting tone.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4580.05"And of a soul laden with sin," concluded Frau Ilell Wig, with biting scorn.

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5550.18Then Claudine said, in a low and resolute tone, "I shall never-marry, never without love on both sides; never!
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43650.15You are ill," he said, in a low tone, bending down to me; "indeed, I cannot leave you alone.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38970.15"Too true," Henriette murmured, in a sad, subdued tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32570.14but her low, deprecatory tone spoke of a kind of eager terror as it were.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41850.13Oh, it is all so sensibly contrived——" "And is so natural, that you have not hesitated for a moment to remain," he completed her sentence, breathing quickly, and with a look which in its impatience seemed to chide the lips that delayed confirmation of his words.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61530.12he asked at last, in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14990.12he asked in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21650.12she called down to her, in a low tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29370.12"I pray you look at me," he said, in a tone of command.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_39920.11In low tones, but clearly and distinctly, she told him every- thing.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_51410.11"Child, you must have long known of that," she said, in a subdued tone.
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_Little_Moorland_Princess_29610.11Never mind what she says, child," said Charlotte, in her most resolute tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17510.11None until I can prove to you that you have grossly insulted me," she said in a low tone. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33740.11"But he is going away, aunt," Henriette said, in a low, hoarse tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_32000.10Juliana, take care," he said, in a low tone, raising his forefinger. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4960.10she asked, peevishly, in a weak, but sharp, high tone of voice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50730.10Flora 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-AtTheCouncillors_53420.09"In ten minutes you will fall asleep, Henriette," he said, in a low, soothing tone.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22760.09The 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-GoldElsie_23890.08"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_Little_Moorland_Princess_33630.07Let us go," he said, in a resigned tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30650.07But with it all she was as resolute and practical as possible.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29720.07"Now we are entirely alone," he said, in the gentlest possible tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47800.07he cried, in an indignant tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5290.07asked the girl in a low voice.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53940.07"It is nothing, Lorchen," he said in a forced tone. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52180.07she continued in a louder tone. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_38520.07"That you will certainly not do, Flora," he said, in a peremptory tone.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34950.07he cried, in a compassionate tone, to the Princess.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14130.07she cried, in a tone of intense agitation. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_12110.07I only wish you could have heard its magnificent tone.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26090.06Liana uttered a low cry of horror.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31250.06Those whispered tones, so soft and fervent, moved me strangely.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29230.06Agnes,"—his voice grew low and ardent again,-—" do you not know that it is you who give and not I ?
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17440.06She uttered a low startled cry and involuntarily took the handkerchief from her face.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46540.05Quite true ; my uncle has had no voice whatever in the matter," Mainau said, composedly, and in rather a loud tone.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_40820.05"You heard every word,—you know, then, that only the desire for present rest induces me to ask for undisturbed quiet.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23610.05I could hardly bear to hear a woman tell me that," he interrupted her, with the same rapid change of colour that had startled her once before to-day.