A teakettle whistles from the kitchen just as I feel the dry-heaves starting, the knee-jerk reaction to my anxiety attacks. |
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Several of the group was carrying placards and others were blowing whistles and air horns. |
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Today, I got in a great workout, some brunch, some used clothes shopping, and a few whistles and woofs from the locals. |
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Horns, whistles and Caribbean sounds resonated across the city as up to 100,000 people enjoyed the West Indian carnival yesterday. |
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Song matching appears to be a feature of antiphonal singing of Brown-headed Cowbird flight whistles. |
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Vendors sold whistles and hooters for a pound apiece, their faces familiar from less exalted events. |
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We walk briskly on the soft sand of its otherwise-dry bed, the two Quechua Indians egging on the llamas with whistles and cries. |
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The song of Rufousand-white Wrens is very characteristic, consisting of easily localizable pure tones and intermediate-frequency whistles. |
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The must-have accessories were whistles, bandanas, and white anti-poverty wrist-bands. |
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The song details the duo's love for their fair city, creating imagery with their thickly accented drawls over some lovely reed whistles. |
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I always figured teacher's sons had closet full of marbles, yo-yos, tin soldiers, tops, tin whistles, Kellogg'Pep buttons and Barlow knives. |
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The song can sound like hoots and whistles, in a repeating pattern similar to that of a mockingbird or thrasher. |
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This aircraft is pressurized, with all the bells and whistles of a modern medivac unit. |
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To the fiercely rhythmic sound of drums and whistles, the young bloods of the village lined up in a column three-deep. |
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And the music makes a perfect match, with its toe-tapping beat and idiosyncratic bells and whistles. |
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Steam engines give a warning blast as they move off or sound a warning toot from their whistles as they thunder through stations. |
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It has enough bells and whistles to satiate special effects fans, but not too many to cheapen the overall film. |
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You'd think we'd have learnt how all the bells and whistles on our phones worked after that wouldn't you? |
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If you can live without the latest bells and whistles, then used equipment may be for you. |
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The whole thing fizzes with furious energy and is more satisfying than plenty of albums with more technical bells and whistles. |
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It's got so many bells and whistles, it's taking time for me to get used to using it. |
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Now most high-end computers cost only two thousand dollars, and these computers have all the bells and whistles. |
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They want an integrated system with all the bells and whistles of high-end storage as standard features. |
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I'm very suspicious of websites that confront you with bells and whistles and all manner of cunning design. |
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After that disgraceful performance the players should have been subjected to a torrent of jeers and whistles. |
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It's very odd there's men in fluorescent vests who keep blowing whistles, presumably whenever a tourist does something a bit too touristy. |
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Many communities traversed by freight trains have raised the issue of the whistles. |
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Some shells contain explosives designed to crackle in the sky, or whistles that explode outward with the stars. |
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Through an intricate series of hand gestures and melodic whistles, she quickly garnered its trust and shepherded it into our gated, side yard. |
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The simple wooden or reed form of the transverse flute may have also been used in addition to the more regular end blown flutes or whistles. |
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Outside the gale force wind shrieks and moans as it whistles around the house and rain lashes the window panes. |
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I often turned heads, but this flash of interest was accompanied by raucous laughter, shrill whistles, or, most often, suggestive murmurs. |
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John also plays a mean harmonica, guitar, ukulele, tambourine, cymbals, as well as all the bells and whistles. |
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Suddenly, the rock 'n' roll is interrupted by screaming whistles, sirens, shouting and the thundering of hundreds of motorbikes. |
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These were songs composed almost entirely of a few beeps, a few bloops and a few whistles. |
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Passengers saying goodbye to loved ones, the hiss and woosh of the trains, whistles blowing and luggage everywhere. |
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A computer generated voice comes to life as klaxons sound and whistles blow. |
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Then the first cold front rolls in, slays the mums, frosts the lawn, whistles down the chimney and signals the reign of the new season. |
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Every few minutes whistles sounded and the workers left the hill as a slew of garbage came raining down, erecting the pile higher again. |
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The two cars were greeted with boos and whistles from the grandstands as they pulled up after the race. |
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I didn't see it, but from what I hear it's rather snazzy, and all the necessary bells and whistles chime and peep fairly quickly. |
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He whistles, inexpertly trying to mimic the bird's song, then stops and grins. |
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It's a chest of whistles, it's a set of virginals, it's just about anything you want to make of it. |
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The bunny-hugger crowd tell us to shout, scream, blow whistles, or carry OC bear spray. |
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The language recodes the vowels and consonants of individual Spanish words into whistles. |
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Pressing his ear against the door, he could hear his guest making outraged noises which mostly consisted of squawks and shrill whistles. |
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Crowds of merrymakers parade through the streets to the sounds of whistles and goatskin drums called goombays. |
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All the while giving high pitched whistles, squeals, squeaks, chirps, clicks and slaps that are fascinating to hear. |
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She may pick a topic like steamboat bells and whistles, or wax romantic about the calliope. |
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The 59-year-old was escorted into harbour by 400 motorboats, yachts, catamarans and canoes blowing sirens and whistles. |
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Once the song ended, the crowd erupted into a loud wave of cheers, whistles, and catcalls. |
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A series of whistles and catcalls greeted me as I walked down the hallway towards my locker, and I suddenly regretted very much wearing a skirt. |
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The protest organisers are asking fans to take along banners, horns and whistles. |
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While woodchucks tend to be pretty silent, their cousins are quite vocal and emit loud piercing whistles or chirps at the slightest provocation. |
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You're alerted to this fact by any one of a number of beeps, hoots and whistles, or by the more discreet vibrating option. |
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There were various hoots and whistles as chairs were moved and people shifted around so the new pair could sit next to each other. |
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There were a couple of hoots and whistles from the men in our squad, but she silenced them with a glare that could kill. |
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There are plenty of hoots and whistles, derision for the woman's coy smile and smeared-on lipstick. |
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With countless bends along the Thames, whistles and hooters would sound incessantly day and night as the ships passed. |
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Conversation in the Strand was impossible owing to the din of cheers, whistles, hooters and fireworks. |
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Officers would tuck their swagger sticks under their arms, blow their whistles and leap over the top. |
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The pupils experimented with a variety of instruments, including castanets, guiros, Swanee whistles and hand chimes. |
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When not reciting my doggerel, I was in the pit, making sound effects with kazoos and Swanee whistles, clappers, and zingers and such like. |
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All the villains are villainous, the damsels worthy of long low wolf whistles, the heroes swashbuckling. |
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Local people said that whistles and horns were circulated among the community for the scaled-down protest. |
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Suddenly, the air was filled with music, hums and whistles of different pitches. |
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But for the rest of us, the meaning behind creatures' clucks, rumbles, and whistles remains a mystery. |
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But the first three movements could have consisted of penny whistles and tin drums, because the 4th made you forget everything that came before. |
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Youngsters made a beeline for a table bearing a colourful collection of party hats, masks and whistles. |
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Their range includes hunch-whistles, high squeaky or piping whistles, trills, and alarm screams. |
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The bells and whistles had gone off from my emergency squawk, and the approach controller tracked my flight path. |
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As the crowds steadily grew, whistles and foghorns sounded in the lead-up to the first speakers appearing on the stage. |
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First, you make well-intentioned promises to throw a small, intimate gathering, with minimal frills and no bells or whistles. |
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And when yellow split dal is cooked in the pressure cooker for three whistles and allowed to cool on its own, will not the dal become too gooey? |
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I got into push-up position and heard some whistles and cat-calls behind me as I did my first one. |
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Fog signals have included cannons, whistles, sirens, reed trumpets, bells, diaphones, and diaphragm horns. |
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Referee-style whistles are dished out and they even suggest a red and yellow card system. |
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The walls and shelves are covered with photographs, train schedules, railroad spikes, whistles and replica engines. |
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Researchers have identified what could be signature whistles in other dolphin species, including spotted, white-sided, and dusky dolphins. |
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The dog whistles of his earliest pronouncements have given way to a less alarmist tone. |
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The track blossoms into a wonderful cacophony of bells, whistles, and wheezes. |
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The new guy whispered something to Jessica that Taylor couldn't hear due to the laughter, jeers, taunts, and whistles of the other students. |
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The men around the whistler clapped him on the back, and some of them began to mimic him with whistles of their own. |
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Sure enough, seconds later, a series of whistles, high-pitched and low, rolled up the hillside. |
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A light symphony of human whistles and snores were generating around the small office. |
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The march was very lively, with whistles and shouts echoing round the town. |
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The whistles and catcalls reached earsplitting levels whenever the Americans had the ball. |
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As was expected, his special appearance was greeted with whistles and applause that reverberated through the night. |
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With nicely-toned muscles Rahul Dev was the one who attracted maximum whistles, catcalls and applause, more than even the women models. |
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Quickfall got down to stripping nearly naked and had the audience roaring with laughter, whistles and applause. |
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As the march swung past Number 10 there was a cacophony of whistles, boos, jeers and insults. |
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They have a variety of calls usually described as whistles, rattles, trills, squeaks or screams. |
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Resident orcas are highly vocal and communicate with a learned repertoire of clicks, whistles and squeals. |
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But today, the engine's whistles were sounding again and its 70-ton, 27 ft high flywheel was turning for the first time in more than 30 years. |
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A cacophony of booms and whistles and bangs plays around us, and we eat popcorn and watch the sky explode. |
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The music of the spheres turns out to be a mixture of whistles, chirrups, howls, static and something that sounds like chattering voices. |
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All I could hear was a series of piercing bangs and whistles and orange lights. |
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These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum. |
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Trumpets and whistles competed with the sound of African drums as the noisy march made its way through the city centre. |
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The music is a unique sound of Irish folk ballads, traditional tunes with vocals accompanied by bazouki, bodhran, harmonicas and whistles. |
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The woodwind players are sometimes asked to play ocarinas, those strange lemon-shaped clay whistles with simple finger-holes all over them. |
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Among the principal musical instruments are tam-tams, pottery drums, goat-horn whistles and flutes, and gourd-cala-bash horns. |
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Protesters are invited to bring kazoos, whistles, pots, pans and biscuit tins and to meet at 11.30 am at Speakers Corner. |
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Their robust, carnivalesque dance-beat, accompanied by whistles, sounds like party night in an Ibizan superclub. |
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Now he whistles through his teeth, lives in a modest London flat and is threatening to release an album. |
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Other instruments used included rattles, whistles, flutes, mouth harps, and stringed-instruments constructed with a bow and resonator. |
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Many handmade instruments include whistles, drums, rattles, and stringed instruments. |
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There was no far-off hum of constant traffic, no train whistles or car horns, and certainly no distant streams of moving lights from the nearest highway. |
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After a few whistles and catcalls, the hubbub quiets to a tolerable level. |
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Meanwhile, Therese of Liseiux lived a live that was, by all external measures, boring and rather uneventful with no displays of bilocation, miracles, or bells and whistles. |
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The referee whistles for a goal-kick, which is rather baffling. |
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The lightest models may not have all the bells and whistles, but they will usually serve for short trips unless you do serious multimedia authoring while on the road. |
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Cut out all the bells and whistles and stick to simple architecture. |
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He then whistles at another young-looking girl, hands her a FFF flyer, and then pouts when she speeds away on her scooter. |
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Sam turned around at the noise of whistles and laughter from the others. |
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Orange whistles are garish and weapons can easily be turned against you. |
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Her audience released a volley of claps, whistles and hoots. |
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He is also extremely accomplished on whistles, pipes and flutes. |
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Their lives are governed by steam whistles that summon them to the pits. |
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Its call is a series of clear, hollow whistles, all on one pitch. |
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A sensitive microphone placed close to the eardrum typically records a faint hum, but in many human subjects clear whistles can be picked up on top of the background buzz. |
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Almost as soon as we dropped into the water we were deafened by a series of high-pitched clicks and squeaks and whistles, and about 20 dolphins turned up. |
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You could strip away the bells and whistles and it would still be a perfectly excellent Mozart biography. |
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The group dance event, however, seemed to be the cynosure of all eyes, with audience expressing their appreciation with loud whistles and applause after every item. |
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Some of Fitzroy's residents still claim to remember when they could hear the whistles of factories beckoning workers to their production lines and workshops. |
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Perhaps the anti-gambling lobby group has a person on the inside, confounding design plans, adding irrelevant bells, whistles and flashing lights. |
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Douglas in particular had a penchant for extending the limits of his instrument, using toots, whistles and breathing noises in some of his improvisational work. |
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Suddenly, he heard hoots and whistles coming from the football table. |
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Wendy Gamble, president of the New Toronto Historical Society, describes a time when factory whistles sounded around town and workers would walk to work. |
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Shouts, boos, whistles from the crowd sheltering in the marquees. |
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The melody is madly inventive and celebratory, and the singers careen around utterly at home in this mirror-world of whistles, chirps, flutes and cymbals. |
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He joined in with automatic fire from his carbine and threw grenades at the enemy, whose attacks were accompanied by bugles, whistles, flares and supporting mortar bursts. |
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He divides his skills between the Highland pipes, the smallpipes and various whistles, with deft accompaniment on guitar, bouzouki, harp, fiddle, piano and cello. |
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Then students are free to add clay to make their whistle into a figure, bird, airplane and so on, first testing the unfired whistles to see if they are pleasant-sounding. |
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I could hear Keith's loud guffaws through the cheers and whistles. |
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Ars began talking to Mersech in a strange tongue of clicks and whistles. |
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He is, after all, a navy veteran who whistles for his children, a widower withdrawn so deeply into mourning that he flees from the memories that possess his home. |
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And the dog whistles are usually in the vicinity of about 40,000 hertz, which is, you know, out of our hearing range but well within the dog's hearing range. |
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Bells and whistles don't necessarily improve comprehension, says Mathie. |
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The young members of the audience were encouraged to blow whistles and wave light sticks as the cast brought those famous cartoon screen legends to life. |
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A handful of hapless punters are dragged up and the whole thing descends into a sort of free-form hoedown, complete with catcalls and wolf whistles. |
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The group consisted of 20 boys and girls aged from nine to 13, who played improvised instruments and harmonicas, drums and tin whistles. |
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Dolphins produce a variety of vocalizations, usually in the form of clicks and whistles. |
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Bottlenose dolphins have been found to have signature whistles, a whistle that is unique to a specific individual. |
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These whistles are used in order for dolphins to communicate with one another by identifying an individual. |
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Some porpoises produce a variety of clicks and whistles, which are thought to be primarily for social purposes. |
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Bottlenose dolphins communicate through burst pulsed sounds, whistles, and body language. |
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The whistles and pulsed calls that pilot whales make seem not to fall into distinct types, but rather can be arranged on a continuum. |
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Cetaceans produce a number of vocalizations, notably the clicks and whistles of dolphins and the moaning songs of the humpback whale. |
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Cetaceans use sound to communicate, using groans, moans, whistles, clicks or the 'singing' of the humpback whale. |
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I was long overparked, but the cops were too busy carrying girls and blowing whistles to bother about that. |
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Campers are often told to wear bright colored red ribbons and bells, and carry whistles to ward off bears. |
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They are told to look for grizzly scat in camping areas, and be careful to carry the bells and whistles in those areas. |
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The sika deer is a highly vocal species, with over 10 individual sounds, ranging from soft whistles to loud screams. |
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In general, ducks make a wide range of calls, ranging from whistles, cooing, yodels and grunts. |
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Stella whistles pervily, and I race to get away before I start shooting my mouth off. |
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Margaret Sphery's shrill birdcalls, whistles, and hoots assailed us from a proximitous room. |
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The call is a series of sharp whistles, described as cheep, cheep or yewk, yewk. |
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A nearby sedge warbler competes, blaring out its more hurried, chaotic whirrs, chatters and whistles from the top of a small tree. |
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Whether it talks, lights up or whistles Dixie, it's the kind of toy that kids covet and parents bemoan. |
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Joseph Hudson had made whistles for years and had made whistles for years and saw his opportunity. |
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It is the latest creation from Birmingham firm Acme, who have been manufacturing whistles for 137 years. |
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We picked out the subtle quacks of gadwalls and teal, along with peeps of wigeons and whistles of pintails. |
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And needless to say she flashed her bits to a chorus of howls and wolf whistles. |
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As a seasoned entertainer, Packie sang humorous parodies, could play four tin whistles at a time, feign pathos, and tell very tall tales. |
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Precious instrument was made with the 1514 sounding tin whistles, a manual and a sixteen foot six registers. |
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Images of kids playing tin whistles, others skipping and some with grins bigger than a Cheshire cat were too blissful to be believable. |
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The Clangers were lovable pink aliens who talked in whistles, drank soup and had friends such as the Iron Chicken and Froglets. |
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The BT homehub may well have all the bells and whistles, but it doesn't look as good as this classic 70s TRIMphone. |
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The gigglers reach the sixth rung of the ladder before the lifeguard whistles. |
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And they announce now with whistles and terrible glissandi the arrival of the feature. |
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As well as the flute for which he is perhaps best known, Simeon plays panpipes, Celtic whistles and digeridoo. |
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Directions to create ocarinas, whistles that play songs and four to 10 holes are included. |
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The jigs used include local tunes and many instruments can, and have been, used to accompany rapper dances, the most popular being fiddles, tin whistles and accordions. |
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Songsmith software automatically composes accompaniment music for whatever tune a singer belts, hums or whistles into a microphone, regardless of skill level. |
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In the opening minutes of The Full Monty, a Chippendales-type dancer strips to a very skimpy brief to the catcalls and wolf whistles of screaming female fans. |
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Fans of countryside pursuits have a variety of whistles to choose from, especially whistles for calling dogs, of which lots have been made over a long period of time. |
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I blow it up until it's tight as a tick. Just below the skirt through which the lanyard passes, a tiny mouth whistles a single-note tune until the balloon's lungs are emptied. |
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Pinnipeds can produce a number of vocalizations such as barks, grunts, rasps, rattles, growls, creaks, warbles, trills, chirps, chugs, clicks and whistles. |
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A study conducted by the University of Chicago showed that bottlenose dolphins can remember whistles of other dolphins they'd lived with after 20 years of separation. |
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Though the mudsill of the labor world, he whistles as he hoes, and no dark broodings or whispered conspirings mar the cheerful acceptance of the load he bears. |
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Locomotives used bells and steam whistles from earliest days. |
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The steam generated in the boiler not only propels the locomotive, but also energizes such other devices as whistles, brakes, pumps, and passenger car heating systems. |
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The movie may not be that groundbreaking, but it does deliver its bells and whistles with an intelligence and theatricality that makes it something eminently enjoyable. |
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While there is solid value to be found in this price range, you won't get bells and whistles, like loads of software and substantial expandability options. |
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Thus one pair of dolphins talking can sound like two pairs of dolphins talking, one pair exchanging clickings, the other pair exchanging whistles. |
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