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As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

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His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.
`` Watch it, big shot '', a hoarse voice yelled back.
Then, as their grokking made them ever closer and Mike felt himself almost ready to discorporate her voice called him back: `` Oh!!
In the middle of the stairway, all of a sudden we heard His … voice: ' Do not bring him in here ', and so they took me back ".
" A voice said back to him, " humility shall escape them without more.
Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.
In the first extended promo leading up to the series ' premiere, voice actor Peter Cullen narrated the back story, evoking memories of Voltron's opening credits.
It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists ' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's " La Voix humaine ", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana (" voix humaine "), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters ( late 16th century ) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.
Disadvantages of this set-up included an inability to back the vessel astern, limited maneuverability and the deafening noise of the engines which would have made voice commands problematic.
# Air pressure from the lungs creates a steady flow of air through the trachea ( windpipe ), larynx ( voice box ) and pharynx ( back of the throat ).
The noise would then be subtracted back out at the far end using the matching record, leaving the original voice signal intact.
Jouvet had risen to fame in the early 1930s through his collaborations with the playwright Giraudoux, and together the two worked to shift focus from the authorial voice of the director, ( which had dominated the French stage since the early twentieth century ) back to the playwright and his text.
In 1978, Pickens lent his voice to theme park Silver Dollar City as a character named Rube Dugan, for a ride called " Rube Dugan's Diving Bell ", The diving bell was a simulation ride that took passengers on a journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back.
According to Wouk, " head Harry Cohn looked into the matter, called me back, and said in his tough gravelly voice, ' I've got you beat on the legalities, but I've listened to the record and it's no goddamn good, so I'm yanking it.
A cryptic crossword on the back page of the Manchester Evening News on Thursday 20 October 2011 included the answer, whose clue was " Found a woozy bliss following electric shock treatment ( 9 )"; part of the clue is initialisms, but " woozy bliss " means "' bliss ' in a drunken voice ", i. e. " blish ".
Throughout this book Shaun is continually regressing, changing from an old man to an overgrown baby lying on his back, and eventually, in III. 3, into a vessel through which the voice of HCE speaks again by means of a spiritual medium.
" However, he wrote that " the voice work is such a great addition to the game that it's difficult to go back to the original edition.
Some possible tells include leaning forward or back, placing chips with more or less force, fidgeting, doing chip tricks, or making any changes in one's breathing, tone of voice, facial expressions, direction of gaze or in one's actions with the cards, chips, cigarettes or drinks.
West struck back at this practice in Comic Book: The Movie, in which the entire main cast comprises voice actors, including Jess Harnell, Lori Alan, Daran Norris, Mark Hamill and Tom Kenny.
Lander also has experience as a voice actor, with a resume dating back to 1969 where he " dramatically reproduced " Elvis Presley quotations for the Pop Chronicles music documentary and 1970 when he was the voice of Jerry Lewis in the Filmation series Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.
Kaufman then comes back, and, in his normal voice, claiming he " had to get rid of the people who don't understand me, and don't want to try ", he proceeds to show the story of his life on a film projector, starting with his childhood home in Great Neck, New York, circa 1957.

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Couldn't I just '' -- His voice trailed off into silence.
A note of awe came into his voice.
The fist went down into the pile of flesh, and Ernie heard the bigger man's deeper voice go, `` Aaawww ''!!
A voice drifted in to me above the patter of the rain shortly after I had fallen into a fitful sleep.
Hearing his voice ring raucously up from the road, Kate would await him anxiously and watch perplexed as he walked into the house, cold sober.
Speaking into the phone again and recognizing the caller, I resumed my everyday voice.
The great, crushing ice masses coming into view made him sound like the voice of pure reason.
They leaned into the wind and seemed like one thousand-legged monster hurtling and plunging until suddenly they rose straight in their saddles and in one terrifying voice shouted, ejaculated their grotesque cry of war.
He spoke through the public address box built into the cabin, and his gigantic voice roared out over the empty plain, so that the pink herd of talking people stirred gently in their happiness and wondered what their friend B'dikkat might be wanting to tell them.
His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.
Reduction of jitter ( and also end-to-end round-trip delays ) is particularly important when carrying voice traffic, because the conversion of digitized voice into an analogue audio signal is an inherently real-time process, and to do a good job, the decoder ( codec ) that does this needs an evenly spaced ( in time ) stream of data items.
ATM broke up all packets, data, and voice streams into 48-byte chunks, adding a 5-byte routing header to each one so that they could be reassembled later.
As a result, the vocal range of prepubescence ( shared by both sexes ) is largely retained, and the voice develops into adulthood in a unique way.
Increasingly, the voice and data pathways into the centre are linked through a set of new technologies called computer telephony integration ( CTI ).
relates how God " heard the voice of Elijah ; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
In the first instance, Will Smith's character sings the song after he and cousin Carlton Banks are thrown into prison ( Smith sings the first two lines, Banks sullenly providing the refrain, then a prisoner sings the final four lines in an operatic voice.
These included his Péchés de vieillesse (" Sins of Old Age "), which are grouped into 14 volumes, mostly for solo piano, occasionally for voice and various chamber ensembles.
He records that, in prayer one night after leaving two acquaintances at a drinking session, he heard an inner voice saying, " Thou seest how young people go together into vanity, and old people into the earth ; thou must forsake all, young and old, keep out of all, and be as a stranger unto all.
Some low-end machines attempt to provide vocal suppression so that one can feed regular songs into the machine and remove the voice of the original singer ; however, this is rarely effective.
Common effects are hearing the reverberation effects on the voice track ( due to stereo reverb on the vocals not being in the center ); also, other instruments ( snare / bass drum, bass guitar and solo instruments ) that happen to be mixed into the center get removed, degrading this approach to hardly more than a gimmick in those devices.
He plunged into writing, speaking and lobbying the US Congress and European governments against Augusto Pinochet's regime, and soon became the leading voice of the Chilean resistance, preventing several loans ( especially from Europe ) from being awarded to the military government.
And I think that somewhere between the time of " Ooby Dooby " and " Only the Lonely ", it kind of turned into a good voice.

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