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voic·es

phonophobia.

voices

(voys′ĕz)

In psychiatry, verbal-auditory hallucinations expressed as being heard by the patient.

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Again the impression passed away, as he heard the voices collect near the spot where the white man had so reluctantly abandoned his rifle.

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'Don't make excuses,' said the Guard: 'you should have bought one from the engine-driver.' And once more the chorus of voices went on with 'The man that drives the engine.

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From the drawing-room Roscoe Sherriff's voice floated out in unconscious comment--

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We heard her low voice, and then, in a voice I did not recognise the answer:

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"I know not," continued Dupin, "what impression I may have made, so far, upon your own understanding; but I do not hesitate to say that legitimate deductions even from this portion of the testimony - the portion respecting the gruff and shrill voices - are in themselves sufficient to engender a suspicion which should give direction to all farther progress in the investigation of the mystery.

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"What curious animal is that which is eating the grass on my lawn?" enquired the man's voice.

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Though he had heard my voice when I first addressed him, the sounds had come to him in a manner so contrary to his experience that he had made no answer, "seeing no man", as he expressed it, "and hearing a voice as it were from my own intestines." Until the moment when I placed my mouth in his World, he had neither seen me, nor heard anything except confused sounds beating against -- what I called his side, but what he called his INSIDE or STOMACH; nor had he even now the least conception of the region from which I had come.

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"There is one other voice I would fain listen to again," replied the lady, faintly.

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"No, friend," said a pleasant and, as it seemed to Prince Andrew, a familiar voice, "what I say is that if it were possible to know what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it.

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A man was speaking there--Jurgis heard his voice vaguely; but all his thoughts were for this woman's face.

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The shipwrecked man, hearing another voice in the room, looked round slowly over his shoulder.

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Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:--