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"If we can hold out through the night," he added, "we may get off in the daylight unnoticed, or rather, undiscovered." "But you really think a sacrifice would " That gong-like humming came down very close over our heads as I spoke, but it was my friend's scared face that really stopped my mouth. "Hush!" he whispered, holding up his hand. "Do not mention them more than you can help.
This hideous apparition, inconceivably drunk, has a terrible power of making a gong-like imitation of the braying of an ass: which feat requires that he should lay his right jaw in his begrimed right paw, double himself up, and shake his bray out of himself, with much staggering on his next-to-no legs, and much twirling of his horrible broom, as if it were a mop.
The trembling of air in a big belfry where bells have been a-ringing represents best the effect, only it was a trifle sharper in quality keener, more alive. But, also, there was something more in it something gong-like and metallic, yet at the same time oddly and suspiciously human.
"If we can hold out through the night," he added, "we may get off in the daylight unnoticed, or rather, undiscovered." "But you really think a sacrifice would " That gong-like humming came down very close over our heads as I spoke, but it was my friend's scared face that really stopped my mouth. "Hush!" he whispered, holding up his hand. "Do not mention them more than you can help.
He passed a hand across his face and brought it away wet with perspiration.... Nine ... In some remote spot a bell began to toll; at first slowly clang!... clang!... clang! then more quickly, until the roar of its sonorous, gong-like tones seemed to fill all the world and to set it a-tremble.
It seemed to me that the weight of the atmosphere had been altered had increased enormously, so that we should have been crushed." "And that," I went on, determined to have it all out, pointing upwards where the gong-like note hummed ceaselessly, rising and falling like wind. "What do you make of that?" "It's their sound," he whispered gravely.
'How's that? called Gudrun. Birkin glanced quickly round. There was irritation in his eyes also. 'Why? he replied. 'What do you think of it, Gudrun? 'Oh, she cried, determined to fling her stone also into the pool, since they had begun, 'I don't think she wants an engagement. Naturally, she's a bird that prefers the bush. Gudrun's voice was clear and gong-like.
Judy, with a gong-like clash and clatter, sets one of the sheet- iron tea-trays on the table and arranges cups and saucers. Grandfather Smallweed looks hard after the tea as it is served out and asks Judy where the girl is. "Charley, do you mean?" says Judy. "Hey?" from Grandfather Smallweed. "Charley, do you mean?"
Miniature belfries were attached to the wooden frames on the backs of carrying oxen, and were it not for the huge tenor bell and its gong-like sound keeping the animal in motion, the slow pace would be slower still. Turning suddenly and abruptly to the left, we commenced a cold journey over the mountains, although the sun was shining brightly.
The crashing peals of a dozen large bells banged violently with clapper instead of softly struck with hammer, the exasperating dong, or ding, dong, of the Ritualist temple over the way, or the hoarse, gong-like roar of Big Ben that is all we know about bells in London, and no form of church discipline could be more ferocious.
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