SOUND in Classic Quotes

1  Not a sign of life, not a sound.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IX

2  At the sound of her name, she turned.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

3  There was the sound of feet in the inner room.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

4  The unpleasant sound was repeated, twice; there was silence.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII

5  From the bathroom came an unpleasant and characteristic sound.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII

6  The selenium cells transform the light impulses into sound waves, and.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

7  The boy's body quivered; but he made no sound, he walked on at the same slow, steady pace.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

8  Then all at once the boy staggered and, still without a sound, pitched forward on to his face.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

9  Then, turning to his students, 'What I'm going to tell you now,' he said, 'may sound incredible.'

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

10  She tried to cry out--but no sound came; only the terror of her staring eyes revealed what she was suffering.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

11  There was a sound of light regular breathing and a continuous murmur, as of very faint voices remotely whispering.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter II

12  A sound of subterranean flute-playing came up and was almost lost in the steady remorseless persistence of the drums.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

13  She was interrupted in the midst of these uneasy speculations by the sound of the telephone bell ringing in the other room.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIII

14  Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase was repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII

15  Shutting her eyes she abandoned herself to their soft repeated thunder, allowed it to invade her consciousness more and more completely, till at last there was nothing left in the world but that one deep pulse of sound.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

16  A fresh supply of pill-boxes was brought in from the Bursary; a new distribution was hastily made and, to the sound of the Voice's richly affectionate, baritone valedictions, the twins dispersed, blubbering as though their hearts would break.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

17  At the sound of his voice the Director started into a guilty realization of where he was; shot a glance at Bernard, and averting his eyes, blushed darkly; looked at him again with sudden suspicion and, angrily on his dignity, 'Don't imagine,' he said, 'that I'd had any indecorous relation with the girl.'

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI