sibilations

For the shouts of open, or the sibilations of suppressed, laughter do not usually begin at once but after several seconds.

Archive 2007-02-01 Arevanye 2007

For the shouts of open, or the sibilations of suppressed, laughter do not usually begin at once but after several seconds.

Very Punny Arevanye 2007

On some of these purblind creatures the nuts fell heavy and full, extremely indigestible, and were quickly swallowed; on others they fell light, and contained nothing, because the kernel had already been eaten up above, and these light and kernel-less nuts were accompanied by sibilations or laughter.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

Here then we are not much impressed with the opposition of physicists and astronomers, fearing, a little mournfully, that their language is of expiring sibilations.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

On the south side, wooded slopes fell away from it like the folds of a cloak; the Ebro valley lay below us in a gold wash of moonlight; the sky was sown with stars, the air spiced with aromatic plants; the silence, as always among pines, was of a lovely texture, woven smooth out of a million sibilations.

Try Anything Twice 1938

The sibilations of that whistle were prophetic of atmospheric disturbance to come.

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

On some of these purblind creatures the nuts fell heavy and full, extremely indigestible, and were quickly swallowed; on others they fell light, and contained nothing, because the kernel had already been eaten up above, and these light and kernel-less nuts were accompanied by sibilations or laughter.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

On some of these purblind creatures the nuts fell heavy and full, extremely indigestible, and were quickly swallowed; on others they fell light, and contained nothing, because the kernel had already been eaten up above, and these light and kernel-less nuts were accompanied by sibilations or laughter.

The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

On some of these purblind creatures the nuts fell heavy and full, extremely indigestible, and were quickly swallowed; on others they fell light, and contained nothing, because the kernel had already been eaten up above, and these light and kernel-less nuts were accompanied by sibilations or laughter.

Studies and Essays: Concerning Letters John Galsworthy 1900

The wind, as may well be imagined on that extensive level area, is seldom at rest; there, as in the forest, it is a "bard of many breathings," and the strings it breathes upon give out an endless variety of sorrowful sounds, from the sharp fitful sibilations of the dry wiry grasses on the barren places, to the long mysterious moans that swell and die in the tall polished rushes of the marsh.

The Naturalist in La Plata 1881