Noises

Examples

• When I awoke, the wind had risen, and the sign of the house (the Ship) was creaking and banging about, with noises that startled me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He starts at chance noises as inveterately as Laura herself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• For a long time his receiving instruments would only give out vague rumbling noises. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I never have been able to find the right word for them but that's it, don't you know, lonesome noises. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I thought you'd more sense than to let noises scare _you_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was those noises--and the eyes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Brothers, turn your faces to the south, and come to me in the street of many noises, which leads down to the muddy river. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As it got to be flood-tide, and the water came nearer to them, noises on the river became more frequent, and they listened more. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He complained, quite gravely, of the noises and the smells of London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Those noises at night make the hair on my head bristle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There never was such a house for noises. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Lily sat quiet, leaning to the fire: the clatter of cups behind her soothed her as familiar noises hush a child whom silence has kept wakeful. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But I never heard such odd noises. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The baby begins of course with mere sounds, noises, and tones having no meaning, expressing, that is, no idea. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I walked to and fro, tried to read an old gazetteer, listened to the awful noises: looked at faces, scenes, and figures in the fire. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Science has given to music the ardent devotion of a lover, and resolved a confused mass of more or less pleasant noises into liquid harmonies. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Either they were wondrous heavy sleepers or else the noises that I made were really much less than they seemed to me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He changes colour readily; his hand is not quite steady; and he starts at chance noises, and at unexpected appearances of persons and things. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The usual noises, Mr. Cruncher replied; and looked surprised by the question and by her aspect. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Do you never hear any haunted noises here? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They were not like the children of the neighbours; they never made me tremble all over, by setting up shrill noises, and they never mocked me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Them noises was nothing but rats and the wind, said Legree. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The noises were sufficiently removed and shut out from the counting-house to blend into a busy hum, interspersed with periodical clinks and thumps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Had they heard any suspicious noises during the previous night? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And then, the noises grew confused in the distance; and a cold deadly feeling crept over the boy's heart; and he saw or heard no more. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The land life of the Upper Pal?ozoic Age was the life of a green swamp forest without flowers or birds or the noises of modern insects. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Wilma