A Connecting word is a non-significant
sound, which neither causes nor hinders the union of many
sounds into one significant
sound; it may be placed at either end or in the middle of a sentence.
However, he said that the
sound proceeded from a very large owl, in a hollow tree; a sort of learned owl, that continually knocked its head against the branches.
Suddenly a low but distinct moaning
sound issued from the recesses of the cave behind me, and, as it reached the ears of the Indians, they turned and fled in terror, panic-stricken.
Minutes merged into quarters of hours, and quarters of hours into half-hours, and still the
sound persisted, ever changing from its initial vocal impulse yet never receiving fresh impulse--fading, dimming, dying as enormously as it had sprung into being.
At a sufficient distance over the woods this
sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept.
"Yes, In hear it," answered Levin, reluctantly breaking the stillness with his voice, which
sounded disagreeable to himself.
"Not yet, not yet," returned the agitated but undaunted Heyward: "the
sound came from the center of the island, and it has been produced by the sight of their dead companions.
Then, after a while, came four more, panting with their running, and two of these four were Will Scathelock and Midge, the Miller; for all of these had heard the
sound of Robin Hood's horn.
I still lay immovable, with closed eyes; drowsily waiting for the next
sound that might reach my ears; drowsily content with the silence, if the silence continued.
Then King Frost stooped down, and bent over the girl, and the crackling
sound grew louder, and the air seemed to be full of knives and darts; and again he asked:
He did not remember hearing any birds that morning, there was certainly no breeze stirring, and the only
sounds were the faint movements from within the cindery cylinder.
And as yet it was only a warning of evil, not the evil accomplished; the ground began to look bare whenever some passing
sound temporarily frightened the birds.
And with that light, and as if in reply to it, came the
sound of guns ahead of them.
But in Jerry's vocabulary, "Mister Haggin" possessed all the definiteness of
sound and meaning that the word "master" possesses in the vocabularies of humans in relation to their dogs.
In the middle of that night Hamel sat up in bed, awakened with a sudden start by some
sound, only the faintest echo of which remained in his consciousness.