...ens 128 When a church clock strikes, on houseless ears in the dead of the night, it may be at first mistaken for company and hailed as such. But, as t... ... planks, with dead heavy beats and in quite a furious manner (whereof we are proud), and the lamps shake in the wind, and the bells of Calais striking...

...e memory of that time itself lin- gers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simpl... ...beating of a big drum filled the air with muffled shocks and a linger- ing vibration. A steady droning sound of many men chant- ing each to himself so...

... journey on horseback from any turnpike, where it was never reached by the vibrations of the coach-horn, or of public opinion. It was an important-loo... ... if a new fineness of ear for all spiritual voices had sent wonder-working vibrations through the heavy mortal frame—as if “beauty born of murmuring s...

...d spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread spun...

...d spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread spun...

...ant, like a creature in pain; then, with her quavering voice, touched with a vibration of anguish, she said: ‘Oh, how can I ask you to give up? i will... ...uth is a most vain thing!’ ‘ Gracious me!’ cried Verena Tarrant; and the gay vibration of her voice as she uttered this simple ejaculation was the las... ...word she had said; he had not definitely heeded it, and yet he had not lost a vibration of her voice. He had discovered Olive Chancellor by this time; ...

...were lost upon M. de Montriveau; his nature only responded to the sonorous vibration of lofty thought and feeling. And he would very promptly have bee...

...ng faculties, or under the influence of a momentary necessity to start the vibration in the air known as sound?’ ‘Don’t tempt me, I tell you,’ groaned...

...rous or profane, else why Within the folds of no ungentle breast Their dread vibration to this hour prolonged? Wild blasts of music thus could find the...

... force, what we call colour and sound is there no more than this length of vibration of that. We have reached to a con- ception of that universe of mo...

...he sweet tones which issued from the instru- ment, and return the heavenly vibration from her lovely mouth. Oh! who can express my sensations? I was q...

...e horse, uttering itself in the maniac light of his eye, might be the last vibration of such a movement; the glory of Salamanca might be the first. Bu...

... in his mechanism of the human mind, propagates the sensations by means of vibrations, and by miniature vibrations, which, in a Roman form for such mi...

...is forever sad. The Lycian Apollo might strike his lyre; and, at the first vibration, that other Faun in red marble, who keeps up a motionless dance, ... ... to tell me?” cried he impatiently; for nothing causes a more disagreeable vibration of the nerves than this perception of ambiguousness in familiar p...

...with a front of torn green silk. Lewisham opened the keyboard and evoked a vibration of broken strings. He took one further survey of the dismal place...

... I am unacquainted, but to which the deep pulsations of the cathedral, the vibration of its mighty bells, and the roll of its organ-tones must be tran...

... force, what we call colour and sound is there no more than this length of vibration or that. We have reached to a con- ception of that universe of mo...

... length. It Was hung in a peculiar manner in order to minimise the complex vibration that even a moderate wind produced, and for the same reason the l...

...a quarter to twelve; the west wind bore on its moistened gusts the doleful vibration of the three strokes. As the last stroke died away, the count tho... ...ing her step-mother, Valentine could not repress a shudder, which caused a vibration in the bed. Madame de Villefort instantly stepped back close to t...

... chord in the heart of the anti-abolitionist, which responds in harmonious vibrations. Liberty—yes, that is evidently my right, and let him beware who...