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"Say, that sounds interesting any way. Tell us some more about this, Paul!" exclaimed William, always eager to hear of anything that smacked of novelty. "Well, there are two more degrees a fellow can climb up to, a second-class scout, and a first-class scout, full fledged.

MacDowell has limned her musically in a manner worthy of comparison with the sumptuous pen-portrait of her in Standish O'Grady's "Cuculain": "a woman of wondrous beauty, bright gold her hair, eyes piercing and splendid, tongue full of sweet sounds, her countenance like the colour of snow blended with crimson."

'I expect the name attracted you, Miss Wharton, said Eva, with a twinkle in her eye. Stella laughed. 'It is an attractive name to us; but I am not so foolish as that, I hope; and it has fruit-trees in the garden, which do attract me, and I thought would attract you, she replied. 'So they do, and it sounds too good to be true. Forty pounds, and the man would come down to thirty-eight.

One would have expected to hear from him melodious sounds, and vocal tones both rich and penetrating; but, as a matter of fact, his voice was shrill at the very best, and became actually discordant and peacock-like in moments of emotion.

He was sitting on the window-seat, with his head leaning against the casement, when Pembroke entered unobserved; walking up to him, he laid his hand upon his arm, and ejaculated in a tremulous voice, "Thaddeus, dear Thaddeus!" Thaddeus rose at the well-known sounds: they reminded him that he was not yet alone in the world for his soul had been full of the dying image of his own mother.

As John came nearer, the man saw his lips moving, and heard sounds issue from them; but as he passed, nothing was audible but the same words repeated several times, and with the same expression of surprise and joy as if at something for the first time discovered: "Eh, Lord! Eh, Lord, I see! I un'erstaun'! Lord, I'm yer ain to the vera deith! a' yer ain! Thy father bless thee, Lord!

At least, I saw her chatting with them the ones who were relieved at the last switch and were eating their suppers. She was as lively as a cricket was just bubbling over with energy " "Oh, I know who that was," said Mildred. "It sounds like that forward Judith Buck. She has no idea of her place. I never saw such a girl.

The value of practice with the use of a mirror, and of the formation of the sounds in practice with a distinctness in excess of the actual needs of the listener. Ease is essential to art.

Then, stepping into his extended hand, and condescending to be held out at arm's length, he gave vent to a succession of sounds, not unlike the drawing of some eight or ten dozen of long corks, and again asserted his brimstone birth and parentage with great distinctness.

"That view vouchsaf'd, let instant death surprise With ever-during shade these happy eyes!" Beauty for the most part, consists in objects of sight; but it is also received through the ears, by the skilful composition of words, and the consonant proportion of sounds; for in every species of harmony, beauty is to be found.