Verb (used without object) : the wind soughing in the meadow. From Dictionary.com.
Just then a faint "soughing" sound among the branches suggested another idea to Griselda. From Wordnik.com. [The Cuckoo Clock] Reference
He sighed like the soughing of the wind amongst the reeds. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
There is nothing more glorious than the soughing of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
And so I sit once more, listening to the soughing of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
The trio plunged down into the welcome cool of the soughing forest. From Wordnik.com. [Decision at Doona]
The wind was still soughing outside, but I had heard something else. From Wordnik.com. [The Skrayling Tree]
A quiet, warm snowfall came on, and there was a soughing in the air. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
No soughing in the boughs of the spruces clustered around the little camp. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
Selbourne could almost hear the lonely wind soughing through the treetops. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
She could feel the color in her cheeks, hear her own quick, soughing breath. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
Once again Taita gestured and the sigh became a soughing, a gentle whistling. From Wordnik.com. [Warlock]
The chair in which you sit once swayed in the forest midst the soughing winds. From Wordnik.com. [A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece] Reference
It shamed her -- remembering the wonderful soughing trees rather than the boys. From Wordnik.com. [Beloved]
I became aware of a drowsy breathing sound, the soughing of the sea upon the beach. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
"Depends on what you're looking for, Sonny!" something remarked in a soughing wheeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Talkative Tree] Reference
The soughing in the air grew stronger; it was not snow that was falling now, but rain. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
No sound came from without; all was still, save for the soughing in the pines overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
A light breeze swept up the river, soughing through the thick woods on the nearer bank. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
It rained and rained that night, and there was a soughing all through the trees outside. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
The voices were as real and as sad as the soughing of wind through the mid-summer leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
But have we not had the world to look upon each day, and the soughing of the woods to hear?. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings] Reference
As she rode, she heard the soughing wind and the high whine of mosquitoes zinging by her ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
The creaking of unwarping boards, the soughing of the night breeze round the house, even Sandy. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
The place was chilly, and the wind, soughing in through the broken glass, produced an eerie note. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland] Reference
No sounds at all, save the soughing of the wind and the snapping of the rag on the stick she held. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
They headed steadily south, toward the sound of the sea, soughing in the darkness beyond the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Perfect Lover]
For the first time the soughing of the tree-tops in the soft breeze above failed to meet their ears. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
The bough of a resinous hemlock, soughing gently, touched his arm, and his hold on the shingles relaxed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Was that a long-drawn sighing breath he heard, or only the wind soughing through the waving tassels overhead?. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
They could hear the sound of his iron-shod stick die away in the soughing of the wind and the falling of the rain. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Water running in an unquenchable stream from the faucet, and the world soughing through its spilling commentary. From Wordnik.com. [FLY] Reference
The wail through the air and the soft "plop" of the gas shells seemed attuned to the dirge-like soughing of the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Crystalline vision, cool flow and murmur of breezes, soughing in the branches and river clangorous down in the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Right across the moors came the steady westerly wind, sighing and soughing, touching their cheeks with its fresh fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The six thousand six hundred Spartacani died slowly with unbroken limbs, a soughing of moans from Capua to the Capena Gate of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The sounds of the wind were dismal, soughing and moaning as all mountain winds do, and made me think of the Bogy-man and other things. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
No soughing of the wind could make such sounds had a tempest been blowing, but a deathly stillness prevailed, and no breath of air stirred. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
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