sound

Soames's laugh was a short, single, and mirthless sound from the throat, unaccompanied by any movement of the face or brightening of the eyes. 🔊

Pale tunes irresolute And traceries of old sounds 🔊

Yet even now, if one doesn't try to make any sense at all of the poem, and reads it just for the sound, there is a certain grace of cadence. 🔊

No sound but the scrape of his hoofs was there And the ring of his laughter and mine. 🔊

He uttered from the throat a sound of scorn for that publication. 🔊

Berthe had come forth at the sound of our rising. 🔊

I remember the sound of carpenters' hammers all along Piccadilly and the bare chaotic look of the half-erected "stands." 🔊

Only the sound of Berthe's brisk footstep from the kitchen enabled me, forced me, to drop it, and to utter: "What shall we have to eat, Soames?" 🔊

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