A vowel is that which without impact of tongue or lip has an
audible sound.
At long intervals, the warning cry of a belated gondolier was just
audible, as he turned the corner of a distant canal, and called to invisible boats which might be approaching him in the darkness.
Like music heard in dreams, Like strains of harps unknown, Of birds forever flown
Audible as the voice of streams That murmur in some leafy dell, I hear thy gentlest tone, And Silence cometh with her spell Like that which on my tongue doth dwell, When tremulous in dreams I tell My love to thee alone!
For, there was something coming in the echoes, something light, afar off, and scarcely
audible yet, that stirred her heart too much.
The red fire with its gently
audible movement seemed like a solemn existence calmly independent of the petty passions, the imbecile desires, the straining after worthless uncertainties, which were daily moving her contempt.
In the perfect stillness of the night, the clock of the village church was distinctly
audible, striking the hours and the quarters.
He told me that a faint stirring was occasionally still
audible within the case, but that the workmen had failed to unscrew the top, as it afforded no grip to them.
During these and similar songs nothing was
audible but the murmurs of the music; relieved, as it was, or rather rendered terrible, by those occasional bursts of grief which might be called its choruses.
There is nothing." There was nothing; and I resumed my seat, again exclaiming, "The boy is a fool, I say; 3^3 can have no meaning in Geometry." At once there came a distinctly
audible reply, "The boy is not a fool; and 3^3 has an obvious Geometrical meaning."
Passepartout's voice was
audible, and immediately after that of Fix.
Then, in a lull, P-'s protesting innocence would become
audible:
A particularly fine spring came round, and the stir of germination was almost
audible in the buds; it moved her, as it moved the wild animals, and made her passionate to go.