Noise
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"I'm coming," he stammered; and it was the
noise
of a match Emma had struck to relight the lamp.
He declaimed—"This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the business-man, the working-man himself, falling asleep at night, lying down to peaceful sleep, trembled lest he should be awakened suddenly by the
noise
of incendiary tocsins, when the most subversive doctrines audaciously sapped foundations."
Behind him on the grass the servants were piling up the dirty plates, his neighbours were talking; he did not answer them; they filled his glass, and there was silence in his thoughts in spite of the growing
noise.
She heard a
noise
above her; it was Felicite drumming on the windowpanes to amuse little Berthe.
The earth, ruddy like the powder of tobacco, deadened the
noise
of their steps, and with the edge of their shoes the horses as they walked kicked the fallen fir cones in front of them.
At the
noise
of their steps in the grass, frogs jumped away to hide themselves.
She listened for steps, cries, the
noise
of the ploughs, and she stopped short, white, and trembling more than the aspen leaves swaying overhead.
She would have liked to see him more serious, and even on occasions more dramatic; as, for example, when she thought she heard a
noise
of approaching steps in the alley.
One saw him running about the village as before, and when Charles heard from afar the sharp
noise
of the wooden leg, he at once went in another direction.
They heard the chiming of bells, the neighing of mules, together with the murmur of guitars and the
noise
of fountains, whose rising spray refreshed heaps of fruit arranged like a pyramid at the foot of pale statues that smiled beneath playing waters.
It was the inn that is in every provincial faubourg, with large stables and small bedrooms, where one sees in the middle of the court chickens pilfering the oats under the muddy gigs of the commercial travellers—a good old house, with worm-eaten balconies that creak in the wind on winter nights, always full of people, noise, and feeding, whose black tables are sticky with coffee and brandy, the thick windows made yellow by the flies, the damp napkins stained with cheap wine, and that always smells of the village, like ploughboys dressed in Sundayclothes, has a cafe on the street, and towards the countryside a kitchen-garden.
They heard in the passage the sharp
noise
of a wooden leg on the boards.
Once the man, no doubt bored in his hiding-place, made a slight
noise.
The dogs in their kennels all barked, and the
noise
of their voices resounded, but brought out no one.
Suddenly on the pavement was heard a loud
noise
of clogs and the clattering of a stick; and a voice rose—a raucous voice—that sang—"Maids in the warmth of a summer day Dream of love and of love always"Emma raised herself like a galvanised corpse, her hair undone, her eyes fixed, staring.
At six o'clock a
noise
like a clatter of old iron was heard on the Place; it was the "Hirondelle" coming in, and he remained with his forehead against the windowpane, watching all the passengers get out, one after the other.
He again heard the laughter of the happy boys beneath the apple-trees: the room was filled with the perfume of her hair; and her dress rustled in his arms with a
noise
like electricity.
The sharp
noise
of an iron-ferruled stick was heard on the stones, striking them at irregular intervals.
The attention the young man was paying to his book, far more than the
noise
of the saw, prevented him from hearing his father's terrifying voice.
The
noise
of the machine again prevented Julien from hearing this order.
He opened the door with a trembling hand, making a fearful
noise
as he did so.
CHAPTER 24 A CapitalSo much noise, so many busy people!
'I am going to draw up the ladder,' he said, 'so that it may not compromise us if one of the servants, awakened by the noise, goes the rounds.''Ah!Leave me, leave me rather,' the answer came with unfeigned anger.
He drew up the ladder very slowly, so as not to make any
noise.
But eight o'clock had struck, the house was full of
noise.
The
noise
is deafening without being emphatic.
'Ah!' he said to himself, listening to the sound of the vain words that came from his lips, as he might have listened to a
noise
from without; 'if I could only cover those pale cheeks with kisses, and you not feel them!
His boot strikes an anthill two feet high, destroys the habitation of the ants, scatters the ants and their eggs to the four winds ...The most philosophical among the ants will never understand that black, enormous, fearful body--the hunter's boot which all of a sudden has burst into their dwelling with incredible speed, preceded by a terrifying noise, accompanied by a flash of reddish flame ...'So it is with death, life, eternity, things that would be quite simple to anyone who had organs vast enough to conceive them ...'An ephemeral fly is born at nine o'clock in the morning, on one of the long days of summer, to die at five o'clock in the afternoon; how should it understand the word _night_?
He did not look up until there was a
noise
from the captain's room.
Just before he reached the first landing he even had to wait a little while until a ball had finished its movement, two small lads with sly faces like grown-up scoundrels held him by his trouser-legs until it had; if he were to shake them off he would have to hurt them, and he was afraid of what
noise
they would make by shouting.
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