sound.

A vibration of matter causes the surrounding air to vibrate in consonance with it; and the waves of air thus created, breaking against the auditory nerve, awaken a peculiar sensation which we call sound.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

When sonorous bodies are struck, they, by their vibration, excite waves in the air, similar to those caused by a stone thrown into water; some parts of these waves entering the ear, produce in us that sensation which we call sound.

Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784

From the brain it reboundeth back into the nerves outward, and thence it becometh an apparition without, which we call sound.

The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 1650

Petraeus didn't indicate he would make any other sweeping changes to the strategy, which he described as sound.

NPR Topics: News 2010

Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas told reporters Monday that the soldiers ignored security protocol by patrolling during the day, but said the error should not discredit the military's overall strategy, which she called sound.

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a fresh place, all was silent, the faint whisper of the water gliding by the side of the boat hardly warranting the term sound.

The Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn 1870

The nose by means of which we smell food, to see whether it is sweet and good or not, is directly above the mouth; the eyes are above and on each side, like the lamps of an automobile, but swinging in sockets like search-lights; while the ears are a couple of inches behind, on each side of us, for catching from the sea of air the waves that we call sound.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

They are peculiar motions in matter which give rise to sensations in certain living bodies that we name light and heat, as another peculiar motion in matter gives rise to a sensation we call sound.

The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

Guitars from Agadez Volume 2 kicks off some desert blues that rival the large label sound.

World Music Central 2009

Two diners alone are untouched by the sound, while around them tables, lamps, chairs and eggs, and finally people, are drawn into the destructive impact of the calling sound.

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