Coyotes and hunting wolves sounded like signaling Indian scouts, the whinny of a restless pony made one's skin crawl.

It sounded like a man kicking a melon.

Still, he did like music making and even sang in the chapel choir of the Woodberry Forest School, near Orange, Virginia, where he sounded fine but did not matriculate too well.

The ungainly bird thing ran away, and to David its croaking sounded like the crowing of a tormented rooster.

The women, keeping their voices low as they worked around the house or sat in the living room, sounded like chickens shut up in a coop for the night.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

As he approached the first farmhouse, thunder sounded behind him again, closer now and louder, like a steadily advancing drum corps.

smarter, and wear different kinds of clothes -- she'd be Katharine Ross, just what that sounded like.

She sounded so exactly like Doaty that Henrietta obeyed her under the clear impression that she could either comply or stay home.

Her cough sounded like cloth ripping.

She sounded a little like a redhead.

Lisa commented that Marge's retelling of Mozart's history sounded like the film " Amadeus ", which Lisa described as inaccurate and then she pointed out Salieri was a respected composer.

John I. Taylor had said in December 1907 that the Pilgrims “ sounded too much like homeless wanderers .”

In early eighteen century term appeared in Ukranian documents, where it sounded like " balabaika ".

Motoring journalist Jabby Crombac pointed out that " way a Frenchman pronounces those initials — written phonetically, ' em air day '— sounded perilously like the French word ...

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

They referred to people speaking foreign languages as barbarians, dismissing foreign languages as inferior mutterings that sounded to Greek ears like " bar-bar ".

Mark Anderson, president of Strategic News Service, a research firm based in Friday Harbor, Wash. was quoted as saying The kind of goals he had sounded good to shareholders -- like being a $ 50 billion company by the year 2000, or to beat I. B. M.

A frightened Lozgachev asked Stalin what happened to him, but all he could get out of the Generalissimo was unintelligible responses that sounded like " Dzhh.

Lithuanian names sounded obscure and unfamiliar to various chroniclers, who altered them to sound more like names in their native language.

It became a kind of new pop formula and, within a short while, " Smells Like Teen Spirit " was charging up the charts and even the members of Nirvana said later that it sounded for all the world like a Pixies song.

On the early phonograph's reproductive capabilities he writes " It sounded to my ear like someone singing about half a mile away, or talking at the other end of a big hall ; but the effect was rather pleasant, save for a peculiar nasal quality wholly due to the mechanism, though there was little of the scratching which later was a prominent feature of the flat disc.

When it was played over to me and I heard my own voice for the first time, one or two friends who were present said that it sounded rather like mine ; others declared that they would never have recognised it.

The same year, Orbison was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, who concluded his speech with a reference to his own song " Thunder Road ": " I wanted a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector — but, most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison.

The centuries-old German name of the town, Cilli, sounded no longer German enough to some German residents, the form Celle being preferred by many.

She had previously been sounded out about the job in 1997, after Michael Jackson's departure, but had turned down the opportunity as she felt she was then not yet experienced enough.

It was first hoped that fatalities might be relatively low, under the mistaken belief that the fire alarm had been sounded early enough.

He adds that he once heard something that sounded like " Kuchiki Rukia " on Japanese television, and liked it enough to use it as a name.

Although it was not strictly a folk song, " I'll Never Find Another You " was heavily influenced by Peter, Paul and Mary and featured a cyclical, 12-string guitar part that sounded remarkably similar to the guitar style that Jim McGuinn of The Byrds would popularize later that same year.

Engineer Peter Henderson later said of the album, " I listened to that a few years later and it sounded like it had been recorded direct to cassette.

Meanwhile, Frank Welker also provided the voice of Ray Stantz on The Real Ghostbusters, and Music lost his role as Peter Venkman and was replaced by Dave Coulier when Murray complained to the studio that his character sounded too much like Garfield.

Actor Peter Lorre once sent Morse a letter threatening legal action because a character named Michel in two of the serials, sounded like Lorre.

LaMarche also noted that Bill Murray complained that Lorenzo Music's voice of Peter Venkman sounded more like Garfield ( who was also voiced by Lorenzo Music at the time ; coincidentally, Murray voiced Garfield in the 2004 and 2006 Garfield films ).

At the same time, Herring, who some say resembled Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits and sounded like John Lennon of The Beatles, developed a great interest in The Beatles and began writing original ( if somewhat derivative ) songs.

Saint Peter also pokes fun at his own station and Heaven itself ; at the end of the book, when Meg is let through to Heaven, he comments that the ' Pearly Gates ' aren't exactly pearly ; it just sounded more appealing than ' Hole in the Sky '.

This led to a three-month search for an actor with sonorous, avuncular tones who sounded exactly like Peter Jones, after which the producers eventually hired Peter Jones himself.

Brian tries to explain that it sounded like someone was screaming, to which Peter replies with " Trouble at the old mill?

Lord pushed the Hammond-Leslie sound through Marshall amplification, creating a growling, heavy, mechanical sound which allowed Lord to compete with Blackmore as a soloist, with an organ that sounded as prominent as the lead guitar.

Where two characters interact in the story, the styles are fused, counterpointed, or even sounded simultaneously and when tension abounds, the characters ' themes are reflected thusly.

Murata later said in an interview that White Engine was meant to be a code name, and they wanted to have an offical name that had something to do with Square Enix, and Crystal both sounded right and reflected " many different colors ".

The issue of incoherence of the work is reflected by the equivocal note sounded in the final two more-or-less completed cantos ; according to William Cookson, the final two cantos show that Pound has been unable to make his materials cohere, while they insist that the world itself still does cohere.

Robinson, who remarked that the song's distinctive calliope motif " sounded like a circus ", provided lyrics that reflected his vision and sang lead vocal.

In 1995, despite a lack of support for a name change, the institution, considering that its regional educational mission was not reflected in its name ( some thought that it sounded like a private school ), adopted the name The University of West Alabama.

The new calls reflected the new ownership and also sounded similar to the old ones.