1 The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them.
2 In the drone of the garden it went unheeded.
3 When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted.
4 A drone of voices was audible through the closed window.
5 The soft drone of her voice was making him stiller and stiller and she saw it and went on.
6 It passed slowly out of sight; but still he heard in his ears the laborious drone of the engine reiterating the syllables of her name.
7 An Academician would say that the entertainments of the fashionable world are collections of flowers which attract inconstant butterflies, famished bees, and buzzing drones.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 96. The Contract. 8 I heard them droning out their death-psalms, little judging they were sung in respect for my soul by those who were thus famishing my body.
9 He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET 10 It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 11 Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ 12 The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 13 The dim room swam with heat and pain and droning flies, and time went by on such dragging feet Scarlett could scarcely remember the morning.
14 Two young men in brown robes like furniture-covers were gesturing vacuously and droning cryptic sentences full of repetitions.
15 He gave most of the morning lectures, droning with equal unhappy facility about poetry, the Holy Land, and the injustice to employers in any system of profit-sharing.