 | 1858 - 890 pagina’s
...I became aware of a peculiar sound that it yielded to the tread, as my companions paced over it. 1 struck it obliquely with my foot, where the surface...and with every blow the shrill note was repeated. My compamons joined me ; and we performed a concert, in which, if we could boast of but little variety... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1890 - 354 pagina’s
...incoherent in the sun, and the sound elicited was a shrill sonorous note resembling that of a waxed thread tightened between the teeth and the hand, and tipped by the nail of the finger. I walked over it, striking it obliquely at each step, and with every blow the shrill note was... | |
 | Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1923 - 420 pagina’s
...1845, and described it, when struck by the foot, particularly obliquely, as emitting at each step " a shrill sonorous note, somewhat resembling that produced...the hand and tipped by the nail of the forefinger." He added : " As we marched over the drier tracts, an incessant woo, woo, woo rose from the surface,... | |
 | 1925 - 1016 pagina’s
...highly musical sand was discovered by Hugh Miller on the Isle of Eigg; describing this sand, he wrote: ' I struck it obliquely with my foot, where the surface...the hand and tipped by the nail of the forefinger." Since that time musical sands have been discovered on many beaches : their occurrence has been recorded... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1858 - 786 pagina’s
...ex-police-magistrate. You observe that Hugh Miller compares the sound elicited to the shrill sonorous note produced by a waxed thread, when tightened between the teeth and the hand, and you will hardly fail to remember — with reference to the Egyptian Memnon — that Humboldt," whose... | |
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I struck it obliquely with my foot, where the surface lay dry and incoherent in the sun, and the sound elicited was a shrill sonorous note, somewhat resembling that produced by a waxed thread, when tightened between the teeth and the hand, and tipped... 