"Yes, one is afraid," continued the first speaker, he of the familiar voice. "One is afraid of the unknown, that's what it is.
The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer.
"What do you want?" demanded a third
voice, in a stern, gruff accent.
Then was there again spoken unto me without
voice: "O Zarathustra, he who hath to remove mountains removeth also valleys and plains."--
But as he was about to give it the first blow, he stood still with arm uplifted, for he had heard a wee, little
voice say in a beseeching tone: "Please be careful!
He entered, as he had entered when he looked everywhere for "the man's
voice." The room was empty.
'Don't tease so,' said Alice, looking about in vain to see where the
voice came from; 'if you're so anxious to have a joke made, why don't you make one yourself?'
I heard the
voice of the Tempter speaking to me: Launch it, and leave him to die!
To you, the toilers, who have made this land, and have no
voice in its councils!
Her
voice trembled again as she spoke the last two words, and it was possibly this that caused Mr Pickering to visualize Percy as a sort of little Lord Fauntleroy, his favourite character in English literature.
At length, it would seem, his patient industry found its reward; for, without explanation or apology, he pronounced aloud the words "Isle of Wight," drew a long, sweet sound from his pitch-pipe, and then ran through the preliminary modulations of the air whose name he had just mentioned, with the sweeter tones of his own musical
voice.
"True; and you will remember an expression attributed almost unanimously, by the evidence, to this
voice, - the expression, 'mon Dieu!' This, under the circumstances, has been justly characterized by one of the witnesses (Montani, the confectioner,) as an expression of remonstrance or expostulation.
And though no
voice but his was heard to speak aloud, still there were revilings and anathemas, whispered but distinct, from women and from men, breathed against the daughter who had wrung the aged hearts of her parents,--the wife who had betrayed the trusting fondness of her husband,--the mother who had sinned against natural affection, and left her child to die.
`Change lobster's again!' yelled the Gryphon at the top of its
voice.
But the watchfulness, instead of alarming the newly-landed man, appeared, on the contrary, to give him great joy, for his
voice might perhaps have proved insufficient to rouse the people of the house, whilst, with an auxiliary of that sort, his
voice became almost useless.