WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


 

 

106.

From the far darkness came the SLIP-SLIP of slippers sliding...

W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.161

PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies

TIME: 20th century

 

107.

... the room silent except for the deliberate BUP-BUP of his pipe.

W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.165

PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies

TIME: 20th century

 

108.

...dry grass that gave out a papery sound as it brushed their legs.

W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.175

PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies

TIME: 20th century

 

109.

...the wind sighing at the chinking in the barn walls, could hear Fat's breath whistling gently through his nose, the regular grinding of horses at their oats, now and then the indifferent swish of a tail, the imperative knock of a hoof.

W.O.Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada., Toronto, 1947, p.176

PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies

TIME: 20th century


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