At first he had fancied the Red One to be some colossal statue, like Memnon, rendered
vocal under certain temperature conditions of sunlight.
With his first sight of the great cat the ape-man knew that he had heard no note of terror in that initial roar; surprise doubtless, but the
vocal chords of that mighty throat never had reacted to fear.
Mr Brass remained airing himself at the fire, and resumed his
vocal exercise, and his seraphic smile, simultaneously.
When her
vocal organs needed exercise, which was usually toward seven o'clock when she had had an after-dinner rest in a darkened room, the pretext would be the retelling of the same stories over and over again to the same audience.
Him the pleasant banks of sweetly-winding Stour had nourished, where he first learnt the
vocal art, with which, wandering up and down at wakes and fairs, he cheered the rural nymphs and swains, when upon the green they interweaved the sprightly dance; while he himself stood fiddling and jumping to his own music.
Then, however, became the dead wilderness
vocal: for from the ground a noise welled up, gurgling and rattling, as water gurgleth and rattleth at night through stopped-up water- pipes; and at last it turned into human voice and human speech:--it sounded thus:
It won him a professorship in Boston University; and brought so many pupils around him that he ventured to open an ambitious "School of
Vocal Physiology," which became at once a profitable enterprise.
Sounds of gruff voices practising
vocal music invade the evening's silence; and the fumes of choice tobacco scent the air.
That was a feeble evasion, but Godfrey was not fond of lying, and, not being sufficiently aware that no sort of duplicity can long flourish without the help of
vocal falsehoods, he was quite unprepared with invented motives.
The Canadian waters are
vocal with these little French chansons, that have been echoed from mouth to mouth and transmitted from father to son, from the earliest days of the colony; and it has a pleasing effect, in a still golden summer evening, to see a batteau gliding across the bosom of a lake and dipping its oars to the cadence of these quaint old ditties, or sweeping along in full chorus on a bright sunny morning, down the transparent current of one of the Canada rivers.
The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an explanation at highest
vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.
Again, while Captain Van Horn and the mate, Borckman, gave orders, and while the Arangi's mainsail and spanker began to rise up the masts, Jerry loosed all his heart of woe in what Bob told Derby on the beach was the "grandest
vocal effort" he had ever heard from any dog, and that, except for being a bit thin, Caruso didn't have anything on Jerry.