From humming tops, trains, and trolleys to mechanical animals on wheels and figures pulling carts, tinplate toys were made in amazing variety. |
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He showed no sign of being effected by my harsh look, as he remained his annoying self, humming some tune I was vaguely familiar with. |
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The shop was humming with activity as waitresses whizzed to and fro, taking orders or delivering desserts to the customers. |
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On such a delightful, fragrant spring morning, he found himself humming cheerily as he worked. |
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Finally at twelve Mina stumbled into the sunroom, humming tunelessly under her breath. |
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I entered the kitchen and found Ryder humming to himself and saw that the aroma I had smelt was him cooking bacon in a pan. |
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John followed and reached behind to close the door but it was already closing, the sound of small hydraulics humming to his right. |
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In any case, by 2010, fully half of all electricity generated in the U.S. would go to keep computer hardware humming. |
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Chizuru ended up staring straight at the ceiling of her room, the gentle purr of the air-conditioner humming inside her ears. |
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We were in the small, dingy office, paint peeling off the walls and the ancient computer monotonously humming. |
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A long peaceful silence followed, the distant sounds of car engines humming and people chattering were the only thing audible. |
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There was silence on the bus, and all that could be heard was the sound of the engine humming. |
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After that all I remember is sleep and the soft melody humming in my little ears. |
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Steve Gigl has what it takes to keep our computers humming here at Blogger General. |
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She had gotten used to the sound of the engines humming beneath her and noticed that they were not on anymore. |
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Observe that would normally be followed up by the speaker actually humming or singing the tune in question. |
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I turned around to Trent, who was still turned around, with his fingers in his ears, humming happily. |
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From the shadows came the sounds of a woman humming in counterpoint to the music. |
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Footsteps echoed in the hallway, accompanied by the sound of Benny's humming. |
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It's the theological equivalent of putting your hands over your ears and humming loudly. |
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He bends down slightly, surprising her, and starts humming along in her ear. |
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Shopping malls, pubs, icecream parlours and restaurants are humming with activity till late hours. |
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Towns we remember as sleepy are now humming with antiques shops and coffeehouses. |
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Scotland's jazz scene is positively humming at the moment and we are proud to call Smith and Kellock our own. |
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Perhaps the most striking thing observed on our tour is the humming activity in this beehive of development engineering. |
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The club restaurant has been shut for several months, but is humming with activity when I arrive, preparing for its relaunch. |
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The village was humming with walkers, the snowdrops were nearly out and I ambled out and took Moor Lane into the countryside. |
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The place was humming as the huge attendance ate and drank as if there was no tomorrow. |
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The headquarters was air conditioned, crowded and humming with activity from early morning until late at night. |
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Three hundred marshalling yards, 2,300 goods sheds and 700 repair depots keep humming with activity all the time. |
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The shop offers a wide selection of humming tops, cloth figurine sets, wooden trains and perfectly engineered German toys. |
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The Maori in New Zealand have used humming tops, with specially-crafted holes, in mourning ceremonies. |
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Try making a second humming top and insert a hole in it, and it'll give you a different humming sound. |
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His unique style with witty delivery and humorous asides kept the show humming along. |
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The simple lyric and Bass's cooing and humming give the song an almost hymnal quality. |
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Flush toxins from your body and keep metabolic processes humming along at peak levels. |
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A humming economy, after all, fixes most if not all other ills in a society. |
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As she started humming the tune and pulled out a stack of papers from the only file in her filing cabinet, the phone rang. |
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Urban March is magical, formed from simple humming, and Woman at the Door has the qualities of plainsong. |
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She sat down at the piano in front of her copy of the music and played a few random notes, humming along. |
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She could faintly hear the radio being played and Shawn humming to the beat. |
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While humming to herself happily, she continued walking in the direction of her next class. |
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Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky. |
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Again, Saoirse shivered pleasantly, enjoying the cool of his hands against her warm, humming skin. |
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Joanna was in a good mood the next day, humming through a mouthful of cornflakes while eating breakfast. |
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It felt very happy about circumstances, it was positively humming with optimism. |
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She was still garbed in his clothes and her hips were swaying slightly to the tune she was humming. |
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The production line in his sportswear factory is humming away in the background, churning out the latest in handball kit. |
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The nurse promenaded down the hall, humming what seemed to be some kind of gospel tune. |
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The stores, delis and hairdressing shops underneath the elevated subway tracks were humming with shoppers, a very lively neighbourhood. |
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Tess changes the baby's clothing and diaper, then rocks him, humming, till he falls asleep. |
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I sighed and started to write again, humming to the sound of electric guitars and his voice. |
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She walked inside the small area, humming to herself to the elevator music. |
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She was still very young, perhaps eleven at the eldest, and was humming a soft tune under her breath. |
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The dirgelike humming of Lorna Simpson's nearby video installation was audible in the background. |
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This discharge could also be accompanied by light and sound, explaining why witnesses report seeing flashing lights and hearing humming noises. |
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Inside, Lewis was half-heartedly pretending to clean up, brushing things to one side with a dishcloth and humming tunelessly to himself. |
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What lends dynamism to life and keeps the world humming with activity is the incentive of profit. |
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But when he sings that doomy line, his voice and the melody of the song's hook soars and you find yourself humming or singing the line yourself. |
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Either they were humming along or tapping their feet or were drumming their fingers. |
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The angel kept her strokes even and gentle, humming a tune under her breath. |
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He casually walked down the stairs, humming a jaunty tune to himself as he did so. |
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There was a quiet humming from the engines, and it quickly put me to sleep. |
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Gases streaming through this jet hole cause the tube to rotate rapidly on its axis, so creating the humming sound. |
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One boy, carrying a kitbag over his shoulder in true military style, kept humming to himself as he marched along. |
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A healthy labor market and rising real wages are set to keep the economy humming. |
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The wider the margins, the better management has reined in costs and kept business humming along. |
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He was humming the song aloud and loudly, louder in fact than any man would have hummed it had he expected to bump into another human being. |
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The low humming from the engine of our landing craft was just audible over the chatter of the diggers she carried. |
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Chase sat in a high chair, playing with animal crackers, and making small humming noises, which were beginning to get on my nerves. |
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Klause sat restlessly for a while, humming tunelessly and wishing there was actually homework to do. |
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When it hit, electrical arcs spider-webbed out from the ship, and a humming buzzed from the field. |
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She was humming a tune to a song that her mother use to sing to her when she was little. |
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I survived only by mentally armoring myself by humming tunes and sketches from the Muppets to myself. |
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Tim is humming the melody of some ambiguous rock song and staring at the crumbling, ashy end of the cigarette. |
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She had black hair and a ruddy face, and was humming merrily as she sliced bread at the table. |
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All it does it sit there humming and grinding away and generally ruining the atmosphere. |
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I wandered through the apartment door in a daze, humming quietly under my breath. |
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She was humming softly as she ran water from the tap and poured it into the coffee maker. |
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The walked past the gigantic, humming engine, which was covered with runes and marks that channeled the magic that made it run smoothly. |
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Our unit has made a tradition of humming taps and having the girl that received the Good Turn squeeze recite the Promise. |
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She was humming to herself an enchanting melody, and the young Count stood there entranced by the fair young maiden. |
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I remember the sound of wires humming and teletypes hammering away with wire services. |
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His network operations center oversees 350 million terabytes of data and a network that keeps engineering humming around the globe. |
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The humming sound of machinery booting up filled the room, and Cameron knew what was happening. |
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Mary was sitting on the bed, tapping her foot and humming a tune as she set her needles, thimble, and thread into a sack. |
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The bed was ablaze with the yellow flowers, and here, large humming squadrons of shiny black carpenter bees would thrum from pre-dawn onwards. |
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Once I heard her mellifluous voice softly humming to the radio, I sighed a breath of relief. |
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I woke up the next day to the faint smell of lilacs and the sweet melodic sound of Alna humming a song in the shower. |
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I groan when one of the devices starts beeping or ringing or humming in a darkened theater. |
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It's an essential trace element that helps keep the immune system humming and free radicals under control. |
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The machines are humming again, the shedhands begin to sing and some of the weariness falls away. |
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She kept a small transistor radio tuned to a lite-rock station, the only sound besides the humming of the drink cases. |
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The music was some catchy tunes by Richard Rodgers that my friend and I were humming incessantly! |
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As I watch, a humming bird stops in midair and turns its attention to the wooly bluecurls and the showy penstemon. |
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I was sitting on the desk staring out the window at the lights of Mainport and humming disjointed snatches of dimly remembered songs. |
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I nodded absently, still humming the song as I thought about the dilemma that was rather rapidly snowballing. |
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The old upright Kelvinator fridge still humming away in the corner can still be updated and reused, even in the 21st century. |
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That's three nights running I've had to stumble down Cannon Street Road, humming madly to disguise my desperation for a pee. |
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Just a few months ago the run-up to such an occasion would have had the wires of Wall Street's vigilantes humming. |
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Meanwhile, the Market Place was humming with a busy car boot sale, with many admiring the vintage cars on display. |
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How lovely and strange the gangly spires of trees against a thickening sky as you drive from the library humming off-key? |
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I heard a humming and the dozen fluorescent lights started to flicker on and I blinked, squinting at the bright light. |
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I feel robbed at not having the chance of sitting in the gods humming along with the line quoted below. |
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And of course, there are no big choruses or infectious hooks to get you humming along. |
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Her computer was on, humming the usual electric static that always seemed to bug her. |
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She bade me goodnight and walked away, swaying only slightly, and humming an off-key tune under her breath. |
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When it kicked at night and woke her, Emma spread her fingertips over the foreign swell that was her own body and imagined the baby spoke to her in a secret, atonal humming. |
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Neil, my former team leader, has taken to bumping blindly around the building in a virtual reality helmet, humming Born To Be Wild and making vroom noises. |
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The late summer garden is a quietly humming hive of activity. |
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The only saving grace is the beautifully whimsical score that carries us through the entire film and leaves us humming the theme long after it's done. |
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As usual, Joan Armour was present at center stage or behind the scenes, as necessary, to keep the logistics manageable, the computers humming, and the coffee urns flowing. |
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Grant thought the humming was simply designed to help Luther get the right feel on the song. |
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As we marched out into the night, a French journalist started bouncing on his heels, humming the Halo theme song. |
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Adam typed in some commands, and the computer bank started humming. |
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The engines are humming my lullaby and their baffled sound comforts me. |
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The low, humming buzz from the many computer screens droned constantly on. |
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While workers are at home sleeping, their computers are humming along. |
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The chamber had super computers humming merrily all around its perimeter. |
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Still humming, Ethan fastened the harness around Giles's arms, like hers, so he couldn't lift his hands more than a couple inches, once he woke up. |
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Male curassows in breeding season vocalize with a deep, resonant humming. |
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Jam-packed full of toe-tapping song and dance numbers, a pacey storyline and fantastic production values, I can guarantee you'll be humming along as you leave the cinema. |
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There was a door at the top of the stairs and I picked up my pace, hearing the soft sound of William humming to himself, waiting for me to arrive. |
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So they spent eight years taking the humming economy they inherited and asphyxiating it. |
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According to political lore, patriot-Americans do the backbreaking work that keeps the country humming. |
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She was wearing the most shapeless bag of a dress, more of a cloth sack, actually, and was pressing her books to her chest, humming as she walked to school. |
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Fascinated by what they had seen, the pair researched the sighting and believe it was the humming bird hawk-moth, otherwise known as Marcogloass stellatarum. |
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She started humming softly and gained in volume until she started singing. |
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Even now, you only have to hum a bar or two of its chorus, and pretty soon everyone around you will be humming or whistling, or singing along under their breath. |
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In contrast, a short distance away from Scott's hut was a modern demountable base with a humming windmill harnessing the vast wind power of the region. |
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He was like some comedic humming bird, flitting from Megan Mullally to Eric McCormack to Debra Messing. |
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As she lay trembling slightly for a long moment, not daring to breathe, she became aware of a faint humming, like the sound that a triangle makes after you strike it. |
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After all this is the season that provides us with our anthems, to which we'll still be humming or dancing away to in 6 months time in the depths of winter. |
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Whatever Roman numeral this Super Bowl may be, it will come and go with glory dust sprinkled onto heroes, the air humming with huzzas, hosannas and hallelujahs. |
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The campus was humming with instructive activities and cheerful, volunteer undergraduates directing and informing the crowds with courtesy and charm. |
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It starts off like any other Lana tune, replete with minor chords and humming, distorted vocals. |
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The entire area was abuzz with various sounds in the air, such as leaves rustling in the wind, birds chirping, insects humming, and the distinct sound of flowing water. |
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Initially it was a slow, sauntering pace but then she built up a good, swift tempo and I found myself humming and shaking my booty until I tripped over a magpie. |
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There were some scattered trees, but it was mostly meadows of green grass, laurel bushes and the river seemed to be humming its own gurgling tune. |
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It was akin to a backer's audition for a Broadway musical, where if the would-be theatrical angels leave humming the title tune, they will undoubtedly ante up later. |
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An hour to the north, at the rural Tilton School, Mitt Romney faced his own overflow crowd beneath quietly humming ceiling fans. |
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It rattles along at a fair lick and Colin Newton's drums sound like a bottle bank being blown up, but the next morning it is the infectious chorus that I can't stop humming. |
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Soon, however, Altair began humming, his usual cheery mood returning. |
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When the Soviet empire collapsed, the factories kept right on humming. |
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The air was alive with the spirit of the place, fragrant and humid, and humming with energy. |
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The lobby was just a few paces away, literally humming with activity. |
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Her voice broke the humming silence, almost tangible barrier between them. |
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After a while he stopped humming and began to sing to himself softly. |
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It's almost beyond belief that for some technology evangelists, the health of a society can be measured by the fact that the routers are humming and the packets are flying. |
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Shaped like a knife, a bullroarer makes a humming noise when it is swung. |
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When I came in the dusky light of early morning they were singing, and when I opened the door they jumped beneath the tables and onto counters, their narrow legs humming. |
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Chris ran up the stairs and followed the sound of Star humming. |
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Anyway, Eric kept humming some dueling banjos song and talking about people who marry their first cousins. |
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The humming sound and the unvarying white light induced a sort of faintness, an empty feeling inside his head. |
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He tossed the chunk of soft wood in his hand measuringly, then, humming something utterly tuneless to my ears, set to work. |
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Residents describe hearing noises like a jet engine, thumpings, great whooshing sounds, and on occasion continuous humming. |
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If you hear a humming drone, a hissing, a whistle, or all three, you could be sensitive to low-level, low-frequency infrasound noise-vibrations. |
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But 20 years ago English geophysicist Keith Runcorn suggested another way to get at the workings of the geomagnetic dynamo humming in the core. |
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Is it the gulper eel, the polar bear, the humming bird or, even, the iguana? |
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The humming birds, which swarmed round the flowering cytisus and the beautiful water-fall, once more delighted the eye and the ear. |
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The secrecy and humming noises emanating from their experimental parlour led to accusations of witchcraft. |
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As soon as she walks up the porch steps and opens the screen door, she knows that Henry is already home. Amid the noisy mommick, she can sense his humming presence. |
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Mind in the clouds, a pure blue sky, low music humming in the background. |
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Peter took us into the rainforest, where we saw humming birds, blue crown mot mots, crested oropendolas, bright green parrots and Tobago's own national bird, the chachalaca. |
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The device had stopped humming, but still looked like a bathysphere. |
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I was deeply shocked, albeit mainly by the discovery that Radio 2 is no longer just the station for chairbound pensioners who enjoy humming along to Sing Something Simple. |
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