To the left, not far from the farthest cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the sound of officers' voices in eager conversation.
All the time he had been beside the gun, he had heard the voices of the officers distinctly, but as often happens had not understood a word of what they were saying.
As he spoke the voice came so near to Zeb that he jumped back in alarm.
"What curious animal is that which is eating the grass on my lawn?" enquired the man's voice.
The
voice without a body went on singing; and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more delicate, more powerful, in short, more irresistibly triumphant.
Alice couldn't see who was sitting beyond the Beetle, but a hoarse
voice spoke next.
He rallied at the sound of that beloved
voice. He looked up at her as she knelt at his head.
Although he sometimes dreamed sentimentally of marriage in the abstract, of actual marriage, of marriage with a flesh-and-blood individual, of marriage that involved clergymen and '
Voices that Breathe o'er Eden,' and giggling bridesmaids and cake, Dudley Pickering was afraid with a terror that woke him sweating in the night.
Within reach of his arm was the brawny shoulder of a gigantic Indian, whose deep and authoritative
voice appeared to give directions to the proceedings of his fellows.
His manner at these moments was frigid and abstract; his eyes were vacant in expression; while his
voice, usually a rich tenor, rose into a treble which would have sounded petulantly but for the deliberateness and entire distinctness of the enunciation.
`Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep
voice, `are done with a whiting.
"What do you want?" asked that
voice, at the same time weak, broken, and civil.