Its musical and far-heard whistle is doomed for evermore to deluge my soul in a 'sea of soft-blue memories.' ❋ Various (N/A)
There is the sound of foot-falls as light as falling leaves, a strain of far-heard pipes and timbrels. ❋ Unknown (1922)
The Suns rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, oer the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Their every mood has colors beyond the rainbow; every thought rings in far-heard melody. ❋ George William Russell (1901)
But faint, far-heard, the answers fall and swell -- ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
His strong voice rang out, clear and far-heard, as he spoke. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Connecticut clock, floats an uproar of delighted voices, a medley of stirring foreign sounds, an echo of far-heard music of a strangely alien cadence. ❋ Henry James (1879)
But Hermes withal invented the skill of a new art, the far-heard music of the reed pipes. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
The far-heard roar and the near commingled, giving Mr. Barmby a semblance to the powers of ocean. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Whisper, full well the busy, 397. hark they, 334. of the throne, shape the, 633. softness in chambers, 254. well-bred, close the scene, 419. with far-heard, 498. ❋ John Bartlett (1862)
Where Aroostook, far-heard, seems to sob as he goes 60 ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
With hum, and grim murmur, far-heard; like the Ocean-tide, as we say: drawn up, as if by Luna and ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
When a steamer came in sight, or announced its approach by the far-heard sound of its beating paddles, it brought with it a few moments of almost awful responsibility; but I found that the presence of danger and duty together, instead of making me feel flurried, composed my nerves, and enabled me to concentrate my whole attention on getting the head of the boat as nearly as possible at right angles with the waves from the paddles; for Percivale had told me that if one of any size struck us on the side, it would most probably capsize us. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
a hiss that was like a far-heard whisper of the sea. ❋ Max Brand (1918)
Thus spake he, and Menelaos of the loud war-cry disregarded him not, but shouted unto the Danaans, crying a far-heard cry: "O friends, ye leaders and counsellors of the Argives, who by the side of the sons of Atreus, ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1882)
