For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

This time there was no sound of brakes but the shrieking of women.

It was filled with dust and wind and sound and violence.

Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

that theory was and is sound.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

The sound of his footsteps was like a muffled drum.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

The sound discoveries of this quixotic genius were so diluted by those of fantasy that the prize was never awarded to him.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

The plaster was sound, the intonaco firmly attached all over, and the pigment solidly incorporated with it in all but a few unimportant places.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

It was obviously the sound of this argument that caused Lizzie to close her door.

The name lapwing has been variously attributed to the " lapping " sound its wings make in flight, from the irregular progress in flight due to its large wings ( OED derives this from an Old English word meaning " to totter "), or from its habit of drawing potential predators away from its nest by trailing a wing as if broken.

The Neapolitan cantautore Pino Daniele has often fused genres as diverse as R & B, pop, jazz, rock, fusion, blues and tarantella to produce a sound uniquely his own, with lyrics variously in Italian, Neapolitan, or English.

Functions may variously include sensing touch, air motion, heat, vibration ( sound ), and especially olfaction ( smell ) or gustation ( taste ).

This production was received warmly by several London reviewers, who praised variously its direction, acting, set design, lighting, and sound effects.

Skilled players can also produce a medium-pitched sound ( between a tone and slap ) that is variously called third slap, tonpalo, or le ; this sound emphasizes the ( 1, 1 ) mode while suppressing all other modes as much as possible.

Later it was used in Afghanistan as an anti-personnel weapon and as an intimidation weapon because of its very large lethal radius ( variously reported as 300 to 900 feet / 100 to 300 meters ) combined with a visible flash and audible sound at long distances.

Their sound has been described variously as Suicide meets Throbbing Gristle at Shaun Ryder's house.

Russell Leffingwell, who served variously as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, head of the Council on Foreign Relations, and chairman of J. P. Morgan credited Warburg with doing “ yeoman's service in preaching the doctrines and practices of modern European banking ” while all other “ friends of sound money ” were so occupied with battling against the free silver movement that they gave scant thought to the need for currency reform.

This instrument, which has been variously identified as a Dolceola, a Celestaphone, two Celestaphones tuned in octaves attached side-by-side, or a Phonoharp ( and also is considered by some to be an instrument entirely home-made by Phillips ) creates a unique sound on these recordings that makes them immediately recognizable.

This sound, which occurs in the first syllable of the country name Bulgaria ( България ), is variously rendered as < ă >, < ŭ >, < a > or < u >.

This version is variously described as a rising pitch " Man-gan-i " or " Tar-man-gan-i " sound.

The sound of the car has been variously likened to a World War I biplane or as being akin to cluster or mortar bombs going off.

Their sound has been variously described as thrashcore, power violence or grindcore.

Electric Light Orchestra's 1975 hit Evil Woman, although described as Orchestral Rock, featured a violin sound that became a staple of disco.

Chic's was formed by Nile Rodgers a self described " street hippie " from late 1960s New York and Martin Dow DJ at from Key West, Florida who pioneered the NYC sound across that state.

Producers Giorgio Moroder, whom Allmusic described as " one of the principal architects of the disco sound " with the Donna Summer hit " I Feel Love " ( 1977 ), and Jean-Marc Cerrone were involved with Eurodisco.

" Slap style " may have influenced electric bass guitar players who, from the mid-sixties ( particularly Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone ), developed a technique called slap and pop that used the thumb of the plucking hand to hit the string, making a slapping sound but still letting the note ring, and the index or middle finger of the plucking hand to pull the string back so it hits the fretboard, achieving the pop sound described above.

Jones ' basslines have been described as melodic and his keyboard playing added a classical touch to the band's sound.

Combined with the cards ' 8-bit audio, this resulted in a sound described as " artificial " and " primitive ".

El-Dabh has described his initial activities as an attempt to unlock " the inner sound " of the recordings.

Guitar parts tend to include highly distorted power chords or barre chords, creating a characteristic sound described by Christgau as a " buzzsaw drone ".

File: Cdoppler. jpg | Christian Doppler ( 1803-1853 ): first described how the observed frequency of light and sound waves is affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector, a phenomenon which became known as the Doppler effect.

The most recent clone ( better described as a replica rather than clone ) is an open source do-it-yourself hardware solution called the x0xb0x, using most of the original components in the synthesizer section for a very authentic sound.

If fricative, the sound is often impressionistically described as harsh or grating.

Steve Huey in Allmusic describes the band as " one of the most unusual cult bands of the 1990s ... driven by frontman Mike Doughty's stream-of-consciousness poetry, Soul Coughing's sound was a willfully idiosyncratic mix of improvisational jazz grooves, oddball samples, hip-hop, electronics, and noisy experimentalism ( described by Doughty as ' deep slacker jazz ').

The New York Times has described Mahmood as " an autodidact intellectual with grand aspirations ," and noted that " his colleagues began to wonder if Mahmood was mentally sound.

Billboard described the album as musically melding " backwoods blues, skewed gospel, and unruly art stomp into a sublime piece of junkyard sound sculpture.

The sounds produced by this dysfunction are usually described as a " click " or a " pop " when a single sound is heard and as " crepitation " or " crepitus " when there are multiple, rough sounds.

Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

Australian music historian, Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

The sarati, described in Parma Eldalamberon 13, a script developed by J. R. R. Tolkien in the late 1910s, anticipates many features of the tengwar, especially the vowel representation by diacritics ( which is found in many tengwar varieties ), different tengwar shapes and a few correspondences between sound features and letter shape features ( though inconsistent ).

" Vangelis ' music and compositions have also been described as "... a distinctive sound with simple, repetitive yet memorable tunes against evocative rhythms and chord progressions.

Robert Smith has described how, though not a Wire fan, seeing the group live influenced The Cure's sound after their first album.

The amplitude of sound waves and audio signals ( which relates to the volume ) conventionally refers to the amplitude of the air pressure in the wave, but sometimes the amplitude of the displacement ( movements of the air or the diaphragm of a speaker ) is described.

In 1987 he bought the gongs for his collection, paying thousands of dollars for the set, which he described as having " colorful, intense, centered and perfumed " sound qualities.

A 2001 New York Times article described the instrument as " a pianistic counterpart to the electric guitar " having a " shimmering, ethereal sound.

Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed him to the kitchen: " Just as I was about to give door a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor — then clump — a loud clump.