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“The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled…

— Cherie Priest

“…..pump, pump, pump- where is it? It’s fading fast (the sound of his heart as I laid on his bed), it’s disappearing as i…

— Coco J. Ginger

“It generated horrific noises that sound like a TRex trapped in a tar pit screeching its dying screams.”

— Thomas Friedman

“[the car] backfired a lot. Loud enough that when I drove in the wrong part of town and it let loose with a gas…

— Adrienne Wilder

“The boy sang in a shrill high descant and seemed to be trying not to sing in tune.”

— Anton Chekhov

“It's the sound of my breathing that gets me, pouring down into my lungs and then tripping back up my throat.”

— Markus Zusak

“The loudest sound you'll ever hear is the weight of your own silence— a roar that fills every corner, until you're swallowed whole by…

— Sean DeLaney

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at…

— Hernando Cortes

“Suddenly, she emitted a loud, long fart, like air escaping a beach ball, exhaust pipe of a Model T, tire-inflating hose at the service…

— Dennis Vickers

“I lowered my voice, because as I’d learned some time ago, a whisper was louder than a scream”

— David Arnold

“I’d never had the chance to experiment before, but it seemed that irrational screaming was enough to make most people scram. Whodathunk? ”

— Lia Habel

“There were the sounds of the pack in movement—the basic noises, the grunting and whining of the floes, along with an occasional thud as…

— Alfred Lansing