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This day is also likely to stand, the newspaper might have added, as the day which sounded the death knell of imperialism in Asia.

She sounded good and was dancing around the stage putting on quite the show. Suddenly the sound track stopped and there was no music.

As they carried me, they spoke to one an-other in a gibberish that sounded like the bark of a squirrel or the rough cough of a deer.

Even though voters want tax reductions, they were skeptical of a scheme that sounded so much like a free lunch.

Or at least I thought those were her words, but her voice sounded alien, as if she were speaking through water.

I don't know, it just sounded perfect, I liked the name Suri. It had a lyrical7 quality. And when you see her, you see she is Suri.

"I'm fine. " My voice sounded strange. I tried to sit up, and realized he was holding me against the side of his body in an iron grasp.

While we were in a boat on Kunming Lake, we heard someone singing Peking Opera on the bank. The singing sounded very beautiful.

At the time all those years of schooling sounded like an eternity to speed in preparation for a career.

She sounded breathless and kept patting her hair. "We'll be able to see him in a minute. . . . "

I slide open the iron door which had been locked for a winter, but the dull noise of it sounded as though it had been in rust for a century.

Republican Senate James Inhole sounded alarm bells as well, warning that the Congress might have to put brakes on the idea.

I heard a man shouting, it sounded as if it was coming from the basement (the door to my basement is underneath my bedroom).

All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.

They sounded like something almost just as creative in the same, in the same line, you know.

During its development, it continued to emphasize that "American" element and sounded completely different from its English ancestors.

I had to phone call the CIBC man again. It sounded like he did not check the form or he had not mailed the form yet.

He sounded a little disappointed when he said he never made it to America, but I assured him that he had finally made it.

"Sounded like they had to drag it out of him, " he said.

He sounded like he knew it would be one of the last times he would say he loved me.

The Beijing journal China Daily referred to these gestures in an article relating that the U. S. had "sounded placatory notes. "

Because at the hospital, you sounded like you were fully prepared to blackmail me into having some kind of a relationship with you.

She knew, and I knew, that she sounded naive, but I think I would have exclaimed in the same way, except that Sylvia always woke up first.

To us, it sounded like an adventure to spice things up after a week on the more popular Pacific coast of this Central American country.

I was staying there too and thought that sounded like an excellent idea, so I issued him with a set of keys.

I tried to describe myself to him and must have sounded okay because he asked me if I wanted to see a movie together that Friday.

The president's tone was a marked departure from his usual, cool-headed demeanor. He sounded combative, and people noticed.

Well, the word had never before sounded as heavy, as real, as it sounded that afternoon in his mouth.

Although the plan sounded difficult, he made a decision to put it into practice.

I re watched Attack of the Clones a few times to see how my voice sounded back then -- I'm older and it's changed a little, you know?

My boyfriend nodded and said that that sounded fine and I said, "This coming summer, " making sure to drive home the point.

Katherine Solomon was sure that Langdon would never joke about something like this, and yet he sounded like he had lost his mind.

Some said the calls sounded like he was being too soft on the Iranians, while others described the conversations as standard diplomacy.

"So let's think of what empathy might have sounded like, " said the counselor.

After a moment she added as if she might have sounded irreverent , "There wasn't any connection. "

"It sounded As if you were praying, " she said bravely, but she felt herself inside to be withering and shrinking.

During the Cuban missile crisis, an air force sentry in Minnesota shot at a fence-climbing intruder and sounded the sabotage alarm.

Then nothing. He sounded calm, except for when he told me how much he loved me.

With that gloomy assumption in mind, most of the five-minute speeches sounded absurdly beside the point.

A year to the day after the ball, a timid knock sounded upon the door of Rachael's parents' home.

"Swell. " It sounded like "svelte. " He'd purged most of his accent nearly half a century ago, but now it had returned.

This went on for about 30 seconds. I then heard a woman's voice, it sounded like whimpering , as if she was pleading with someone.

With an induction-enhanced growl from the V6, the IS C sounded as though it was ready to rumble.

He sounded like he was trying the words on for size, attempting to make sense of their enormity, and of his loss.

Then the sons of Aaron shouted, they sounded with beaten trumpets, and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before God.

It sounded like the kind of thing you might have read in one of those upbeat magazine articles from 1979 or 1989 or 1999.

"I thought I hated you all the time, " She said, and the velvety huskiness of her voice never sounded so sweet to him.

Calls on it sounded fine, and its tapered build and light, 4. 57-ounce weight made it easy to hold and carry.

presents: To Harry from Hagrid: a roughly cut wooden flute that sounded a bit like an owl. Hagrid had whittled it, himself.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting.

It sounded like an important street to me back there in New York. I thought only millionaires and pearl merchants inhabited the street.

"How much do you want this time? " he said. It sounded like I had asked him for many times. Actually, it was really the first time.

I did not believe what I heard, it sounded as if the Palestinians were occupying Israel.

Then, still very faint and shrill, it sounded far ahead of him, and made him hesitate and want to go back.

What she said sounded convincing, but I suspect it to be a lie.

Then bells sounded in the large white building, and a number of young girls came into the garden.

My sons seem to think magnetic technology is the state of the art. I'm not sure where they got this factoid, but it sounded good to me.

What he said sounded reasonable, but we wondered if he had really told the truth.

It sounded too good to be true, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, that we had no plans to go back.

It sounded good and he might have meant it, since the impeachment vote in the House had occurred before he became Speaker.

From a distance it was like tearing a cloth; nearer, it sounded like rain on a tin roof and close up it was just a long crash after crash.

And that you were going to be here. It's funny because I read an article on your book, and, uh, it sounded vaguely familiar?

I'd always been a bad liar, but I'd been saying this lie so frequently lately that it sounded almost convincing now.

That may have been why it sounded better than any other, but he could not exactly tell.

He sounded as if he was being a little ironic, but maybe it was being just the tone of voice and the choice of words.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats!

But I'd only seen the word written down, and had assumed that it sounded like the name of my parents' blond divorced friend.

There was a shock, the lights went out, then a boom that sounded like an explosion, he said.

As the boat swung mildly and waves sounded pleasant, the children got asleep very soon.

and were finishing breakfast in their little parlour and eagerly discussing their plans for the day, when a heavy knock sounded at the door.

Experts have said the giant bamboo flooring herald sounded the "Back to attack" the clarion call of the domestic market.

I repeated his words once again as I stared at nothing. I probably sounded like a broken record. . . but what was he talking about?

sounded at once like an ironic comment on celebrity excesses and a straight bit of autobiography.

i was beginning to think maybe he had a screw loose , but he sounded all right now , and i began to relax.

When I said that this sounded rather nice, he gave me a scornful look.

"Okay. " But he sounded disappointed, as if he had been hoping had one stuffed down my pants right then. "How much? "

However, when Jennifer sounded Bradley, 38, out about Taylor he said he wasn't interested and that she was too young for him!

The Federal Reserve sounded a bit more optimistic about the American economy than it has for a while.

It sounded as if the Engineering officer had been considering this solution for a while.

Catherine loved it too: but she said it sounded sweetest at the top of the steps, and she went up in the dark: I followed.

He sounded more sincere (and more desperate) than before. He may even have been trying to signal a change of tack.

Kemp considered the title La Bella Milanese, but decided it sounded more like the name of an Italian gastronomic delight than a work of art.

Sounded very ominous when he took me nearby to the lake, conveniently called Lake Lyndon Baines Johnson.

" He said he had just come back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded " fun, spirited and not intimidating.

Her name in his mouth sounded like the scratch of a fountain pen.

'Do you know, Newman, that sounded to me very like a threat, ' I said as we climbed the hill homewards .

But the cry was echoing round the alley, echoing inside his head, there was something about it that sounded almost human.

Nations affected by the Pacific "Rim of Fire" have all sounded alerts, trying to estimate the anticipated time of arrival of any tsunami.

Premier Nathan Rees yesterday promised to look into the matter, which he said sounded "absurd" .

Though we were half a world away from each other, my wife sounded as if she were next door. Incredible!

When he finally spoke, he almost sounded mad. "You think I regret saving your life? "

Georgie forced out a tight smile, what the man had said was the truth but it just sounded too lack of human touch.

Although it sounded interesting, the program turned out to be very short-lived.

The teacher sounded as if he had a cold or cough when he spoke.

MacDonald could see the female as she flickered a light. She had long, stringy, blond hair, boots, a floppy hat and said what sounded like.

I know you were expecting some fancy name with a trademark and what I gave you sounded really boring, but hear me out.

Hassan's husband told me that he had never heard of contraception, and he sounded wary of the idea.

When the final buzzer sounded, the Kings sang and danced their way around the court. The only thing missing was confetti.

But as he sat down with the Russian leader for the first time, President Obama sounded optimistic.

By the time the final whistle sounded we knew the Frenchman would not play in the return game after picking up a suspension.

That sounded reassuring but raised a bunch of questions: Why would hackers post people's passwords on an Internet forum for all to see?

When the days grow old all the Guanghua, vowed today is carried by the wind? Dust sounded, coming from the frost, Iraqis are still around?

"Jon? " he said. He sounded small and far away and echoey.

It also sounded the alarm for the United States, a number of areas that the U. S. technological advantage is being eroded.

The shriek had perhaps sounded with a far greater power, to his own startled ears, than it actually possessed.

I usually answered that I'd always liked to travel light, and that going without any bags at all sounded like a fun challenge.

I stopped for a while after a doctor told me my knee sounded like an 80 year old's knee.

Klaxon sounded, so deafening that Brooks leaped straight up out of his chair, mashing his knee on the underside of the console.

Two days before my departure, one of the behind-the-scene masters appeared. She sounded like a middle-aged woman.

He sounded like a preacher, until one day I told him my thoughts on separation and he calmed down.

It sounded like a fairytale to me, but I believed that my parents loved each other and that they would be together.

I don't think she knows you, but she said she needed your help. She sounded really desperate.

Jessica: I may not look sexy but I hope to be sounded sexy. Irish accent is now considered as the sexiest voice in the world.

He thought it was a routine call as shop burglar alarms often sounded first thing in the morning when staff opened stores.

The silence was broken by something the neighbors would later say sounded like a gun shot. But Paul knew it was the sound of revenge.

One student told me that her roommate's local dialect sounded as foreign to her as French or German.

I told him that this trip sounded right up my alley.

FAITH LAPIDUS: Scientists think parts of the Earth may have sounded like this about sixty-five million years ago.

When the phone was picked up again, Teacher Fei was surprised by the voice, which sounded as though it belonged to a much older man.

Bobby groaned. It sounded like hard work. But he went off quietly to bed. What nightmares disturbed him?

Also, the populist edge sounded to some swing voters as if Al, too, might change the economic direction of the country.

Her in- laws refused to flee as tsunami warnings sounded , she said. She says the family fled upstairs to avoid the rushing waters .

Still, the company sounded hopeful notes about a second-half rebound in the U. S.

We just went on tour together and I think they sounded different at the end of it. It just happens.

Malaise is when someone who sounded , I thought immediately referred to the throats , said : them .

A woman once told him his voice sounded like broken stones rattling in a cage.

And heavenly music was sounded in the sky, out of reverence for the successor of the Buddhas of old.

She cooked the potion for ten minutes. There was a lot of smoke, and the pot sounded like an alligator crying.

That sounded intriguing, so I decided to try it out.

Stapleton looked hard at him, but Holmes had spoken very seriously and his words sounded true.

Compared with his strange opponents, he looked and sounded like a chief executive, and his big lead over Mr Paladino continues to widen.

True, he had been " jilted" -the word sounded awkward and unnatural on his father's tongue-but not by Su Wen-wan.

However, a voice responded at once, a crisp, decisive voice that sounded as though it were reading a prepared statement.

Returning to Google's search results, the next choice was an organization that sounded more promising: Lawline. com.

Even though all this sounded Utopian when it was preached, it reflected online reality pretty accurately.

His hand was shaking as he downed the second drink; he was about to head for the shower when his com tone sounded. It was Major Benson.

Could the president really feel as good as he sounded or was the equanimity an act?

Afterwards he sounded very quiet and very calm. He just said the horses have been so wonderful.

Although the ECB and the Bank of England have sounded sanguine about tightening credit, central bankers are not entirely unperturbed.

An official at the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the three technicians had continued working after radiation alarms sounded.

He sounded very nervous in the emails we exchanged, and I wasn't sure he would actually keep the date we made that evening at a smart bar.

You know the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business himself.

At first the word wasn't penthouse, but something that sort of sounded like it: pendiz.

The phrase sounded fatuous, the sort of meaningless thing people say, like, I'll sue the bastards.

On a side note, nearing the end at 3. 55 he sounded a bit like Jay there. Just a bit (not that it's good or bad).

Villagers said the massive walls of water, which washed 2 kilometers inland, sounded like a jet fighter landing.

Up to that time, I had never particularly liked Mandarin Pop, which I had heard frequently in Taiwan, but this time it sounded beautiful.

The silence seemed louder without her. He tried to remember what it had sounded like before, but instead he remembered her songs.

He knew how that sounded. He knew sorry wasn't enough, but he had nothing else. Nothing yet, at least.

The bell of the temple sounded every evening reminding all that another day was passing.

Russia, a powerful regional broker and a country not known for its dedication to due process, issued a statement that sounded like a rebuke.

The palace was a little less than it sounded, a narrow Palladian facade, mossy steps, a dark archway of rusticated stone.

I made sure my client's coupons would be delivered in the mail on the exact day we discussed, though it was never as easy as it sounded.

Palahniuk said he's already read the script for it and sounded really happy with it.

Now this sounded more like my mom. I helped her pull the bike out of the bush and push it up the hill.

He has already sounded her out on a couple of projects, one of which would see her playing an assassin.

What he said at the press conference sounded exciting and amazing.

Terence sounded optimistic. "It's my dream, " he said. "Some day we're going to gig together. "

Getting businesses to go legal with a native Chinese Linux sounded like a win to me.

The afternoon was now fallen so breathless that the rolling of a pebble sounded abroad like a pistol - shot .

Callers we spoke to said we sounded clear, which is always nice to hear while testing a phone.

But eventually they began to follow me in groups, chanting what sounded like, "Speckengyspeckengy. "

She struggled with the name, as it sounded something like; a door?

That sounded to many like an attempt to subvert NATO.

shouted an old jailer, slapping the red-haired woman on her bare, fat back, so that it sounded through the corridor.

When I first heard the language spoken from a recorder in class, i was really disappointed. it sounded as if all the sounds had one tone.

At first I became a little self-conscious about my phone voice, wondering if I somehow sounded like an idiot.

The little mermaid sang a song. Her voice sounded very pretty. Everyone loved to hear her sing.

Derivatives sounded like a sensible idea in principle and that was all I needed to know.

I said I thought this sounded like the perfect way to walk.

You sounded as if you were on their side.

After a few days, sounded spring, heavy rains hit, this grass is still hard.

"Yeah. " He sounded morose. "It's been a bad year. " He seemed to wilt.

There was a time when Google sounded funny, but everybody takes Google seriously today.

"The neighbour assured her they were not, but that they had been woken once or twice by what sounded like a hairdryer. "

So much so that when he said, "We care about every user, " he sounded like he didn't mean it.

He said the numbers sounded high. "What month is this? " he asked. I told him it was July.

"I must have a poor connection, " I apologized. "It sounded as though you said it was a bad book. "

When the alarm sounded, the alarm will be the same as the mosquitoes off, you can grab it to turn off the alarm.

As long as you don't avoidance and withdrawal, life will for your applause sounded.

When I heard about this treatment it sounded too good to be true but the results are absolutely amazing.

Her voice sounded unnaturally high; the brittle laugh she reserved for her boss's jocular, unamusing jokes was even more forced than usual.

he said , exasperated . and he sounded the horn stridently.

He said it sounded refreshing and that they wanted that quality.

It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word 'computer. '

"Rat-tat-hospital . . . " knock on the door sounded like a thief's face very scared white.

The President sounded great four years ago. He made all these wonderful promises and the hope and change sounded good to a lot of people.

They sounded. . . sad, so I knew before she said, 'Your father passed away.

The shots sounded like a string of firecrackers and it was a moment before Gandhi's devotees realized what had happened.

A small whimper sounded in the back of Legolas' throat, but there was no other sound.

Then, we got a comment from Sam, who sounded a bit worried that the new A350 could potentially nip at the heels of Boeing "s product line. "

When the last "Amen" sounded, they all rose, somewhat stiffly, Mammy being hauled to her feet by the combined efforts of Teena and Rosa.

The salesman was afraid when he heard what sounded like the mountain breaking. However, it was only the sound of John Henry at work.

The news on Wednesday sounded like the setup for a lame Silicon Valley joke.

It just sounded really weird and my son said he heard some kind of drum beating.

She sounded kind and friendly, and Mary began to feel better and soon stopped crying.

Mr. Williams said he wasn't opposed to banner advertising but sounded unenthusiastic.

Old Wei's whole body was a mass of pus. It was so painful that when he screamed, he sounded like a soul suffering in hell.

What he said sounded like a fairy-tale.

It sounded that way. When Obama laid out "what our battle plan is going forward, " he began.

It sounded like a fairy tale--but it was all too brutally real.

His singing, nasal and out of tune, sounded like a gruesome mixture of groaning and moaning coming from some ghost-world.

Miss Sun knew this to be true, while to the others it just sounded as though he was being polite.

You sounded as if you had a cold or something.

It sounded like the very thing for a fiftieth-anniversary celebration.

Nothing of the sort - only a statement that sounded like the blunt truth.

Hitoshi's mother had died a year earlier and his father had sounded old and tired.

In the video, Saddam appeared defiant, although his voice sounded frail and a bit tired.

So far, this has sounded more like a redistribution of property, rather than liberal reform.

At another time, that remark might have sounded like mere nationalist bluster.

This well-bred woman seldom opened her lips, either to her master or his sister, till she had first sounded them inclinations.

And the appearance of a white cloud above a distant ship or train tells us, before anything is heard, that its whistle has sounded.

That sounded like a novel or even like an explorer's adventure.

All of that sounded reasonable at the time and conformed to my liberal political leanings, so I have run the company that way since then.

The suspicion must be that the government went for a policy that sounded tough but is expected to have little real impact.

"Teito Klein. . . , " he said, savoring the way the boy's name sounded when he said it.

a loud thunder sounded, the children frighten crowded together.

This at the beginning of the new year give enterprises sounded the alarm of raw materials and high prices.

For moral and philosophical absolutes sounded a bit like my beloved orchids - numinous, hard to find, known only to a chosen few.

People said we sounded like an angel choir because we had this very clean pure sound, almost like an English boy's choir.

"You reckon you were seeing into his mind again? " Ron sounded worried.

She didn't talk to her mother for days, no matter how pleadingly she sounded.

Mike and I sat there uncertain of his message. He sounded cruel, yet we could sense he was desperately wanting us to know something.

Besides, all I said, though it sounded extravagant, was absolutely true to fact.

Either of two bugle calls in the British Army, sounded in the evening as a signal to retire to quarters.

Your voice sounded as if you had a cold.

Cameron: Oh, I don't know. Perhaps it wasn't the best idea to tell the Emir of Qatar his country sounded like something you coughed up.

But analysts sounded a note of caution over how quickly the programme would be implemented and rolled out across the country .

The colonel sounded so lugubrious and the general looked so sad that I could not help but burst into laughter.

"Help me, " he said in a hushed voice. He sounded desperate.

A lot of his talk sounded like the ravings of a madman.

Yet when Mr Elop announced Nokia's strategy last week it sounded to critics like an admission of defeat.

Who believe that in the bright sunshine after, there will be a symphonic piece of music in a dream sounded.

He sounded very weak, but said he hoped to get better soon and return to work.

The note to be sounded was brevity , mystery , and a foretaste of impending doom for Germany .

Perhaps if I had greater proficiency in their language, I would not have sounded so simplistic.

He sounded like a wounded beast; there was a growl in his throat.

poor Maurice sounded shy, a bit huffy even, exactly the condition Clive deemed natural, and felt he could ameliorate.

But in a recent interview with Fox News , the president sounded diffident and nervous about his economic policy .

An alarming number of them sounded crazy enough to carry out this threat.

The wind blowing through the trees sounded like ghosts.

A while later, I heard something that sounded suspiciously like a latte being sipped behind me.

and drivers sounded horns across Cairo as the Arab world's most populous country bid a noisy farewell to 30 years of Mr Mubarak's rule.

Although her description of the house sounded wonderful, the price was way out of our range, so we told her no thanks.

Her father hadn't been a big part of her life since our divorce 10 years earlier, and she sounded both excited and scared.

If that sounded a bit mealy-mouthed, Mr Cameron was equally keen to denounce a second, older diplomatic tradition.

"I wondered why this purring sounded so annoying and was so difficult to ignore, " she said.

The word of command must have sounded, and after it the shots of the eight muskets.

Suggesting that an engineering firm might make better use of charity than Oxfam or Save the Children sounded like heresy once.

Fernando, third on the grid, you sounded a little bit frustrated when you were talking to Peter Windsor. Were you?