Droning

Examples

• The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I heard them droning out their death-psalms, little judging they were sung in respect for my soul by those who were thus famishing my body. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He looked round at me, in his dry, droning way, and said: The Indians will want their umbrellas, Mr. Betteredge, to-night! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I say, David, to the young this is a world for action, and not for moping and droning in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The others must have crossed farther up the range and when the droning was gone they went out of the cave into the open. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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