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  • Behind me, I could hear a cacophony of digital combat coming from dozens of other vintage arcade games.†   (source)
  • A loud, clanging bell sounded from downstairs, followed at once by the cacophony of screams and wails that had been triggered the previous night by Tonks knocking over the umbrella stand.†   (source)
  • As camera zooms in, we pick up a cacophony of sounds.†   (source)
  • The moment Corliss had gone, the corridor erupted into a cacophony of excited conversation.†   (source)
  • Like the distant white noise of traffic, a cacophony of news reports echoed across the city.†   (source)
  • Chet in any case was an improvement over that cacophony.†   (source)
  • The cacophony grew louder by the minute.†   (source)
  • The cacophony of the station becomes a dull roar in my ears.†   (source)
  • Jet-lagged and exhausted, we went to sleep early—or rather we went to our beds and lay in them with pillows covering our heads to block out the thumping cacophony that issued through the floorboards, which grew so loud that at one point I thought surely the revelers had invaded my room.†   (source)
  • The howling was gone, she realized as she listened to the cacophony.†   (source)
  • You drowned in music and pure cacophony.†   (source)
  • But never in their most uneasy dreams did they expect the cacophony—a word which here means "the sound of two metal pots being banged together by a nasty foreman standing in the doorway holding no breakfast at all"— that awoke them.†   (source)
  • It created a cacophony of hacking coughs, bronchial rattles, asthmatic wheezes, consumptive croaks.†   (source)
  • Trees close in around us, leaves and bushes press on me from all sides, brushing my face and shins and shoulders like thousands of dark hands, and from all around me a strange cacophony starts up, of fluttering things and owls hooting and animals scrabbling in the underbrush.†   (source)
  • And he could almost hear all of them together, drifting through the hotel and making a graceful cacophony.†   (source)
  • Guttural shouts of pain filled the room, adding to the cacophony of chairs screeching, bodies hitting walls, and the stampede of people trying to escape as fast as they could in their heels and suits.†   (source)
  • I was afraid they might wake the grove and drown us in a cacophony of prophecies, bad jokes, and infomercials.†   (source)
  • Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.†   (source)
  • A rhapsody pressed out from a sultry furnace somewhere inside — a cacophony of crippled cries.†   (source)
  • It was confusing and painful trying to sort out the swirling cacophony of disturbing emotions and dark images clouding his mind—a million thoughts traveling a million miles an hour.†   (source)
  • Only now they stood in front of him, a cacophony of demons: the bone-white Raum that had attacked them at Luke's; Oni demons with their green bodies, wide mouths, and horns; the slinking black Kuri demons, spider demons with their eight pincer-tipped arms and the poison-dripping fangs that protruded from their eye socketsJace couldn't count them all.†   (source)
  • The fog closed it in, muffling it, and the freighter's note went deep enough so that it seemed otherworldly, not a steam whistle but a cacophony of bass notes rising from the bottom of the sea.†   (source)
  • …they saw what looked like a refugee camp, with hundreds of tents and lean-tos and people of many colors and hues— many colors and hues but mostly falling within a band of brown that ranged from dark chocolate to milky tea—and these people were gathered around fires that burned inside upright oil drums and speaking in a cacophony that was the languages of the world, what one might hear if one were a communications satellite, or a spymaster tapping into a fiber-optic cable under the sea.†   (source)
  • Buoyed by the adrenalin that had flooded my brain as we careened down the mountainside, I had never felt better, and my father's snores cut through the cacophony of protestations outside my window.†   (source)
  • In the background, she could hear music blaring and the cacophony of a hundred conversations.†   (source)
  • After so long spent in the wilds of Alagaesia, the dense press of bodies, the cacophony of high, excited voices, the storm of unguarded thoughts and emotions, and the confused motion of flailing arms and prancing horses were overwhelming for Eragon.†   (source)
  • There was a discharge of bullets and a cacophony of screaming.†   (source)
  • The unappetizing scene was accompanied by a cacophony of Farsi.†   (source)
  • Cass and Eric moved in some panic through this crowd, trying to find a quieter place; through fields of French impressionists and cubists and cacophonous modern masters, into a smaller room dominated by an enormous painting, executed, principally, in red, before which two students, a girl and a boy, stood holding hands.†   (source)
  • There was an ungodly collision of brass, reed, and percussion--trombones and piccolos skidded into cacophony, a tuba farted, and the hollow clang of a cymbal wavered out of the big top, over our heads and into oblivion.†   (source)
  • We reach the mess hall, and the cacophony within hits us like a wave—laughter and boasts and the raucous talk of three thousand young men on the verge of leave or graduation.†   (source)
  • They opened it and found themselves standing at the junction of two corridors, bathed in a cacophony of monkey cries.†   (source)
  • His howl touched off a chorus of screams and cries chat rivaled the cacophony outside the bus.†   (source)
  • It can be reasonably assumed that she was surrounded by a frightening cacophony of sounds — wood igniting and burning wildly, the glass of windows exploding, stairways and ceilings collapsing.†   (source)
  • I was worried that I would never get any sleep, and that I would lose my marbles in the cacophony.†   (source)
  • The cacophony of surface noise nearly took his head off.†   (source)
  • The factories turned out to be cacophonous hives of distaff bees.†   (source)
  • A cacophony of boos and catcalls rolled down the grandstand for a full two minutes.†   (source)
  • Around them, a cacophony of hawking and spitting accompanied half a dozen distant calls to prayer.†   (source)
  • As Lowery clicked this exposure, an amazing cacophony arose from the island below and from the ships offshore.†   (source)
  • From the speakers, cacophony: Butterfly mixed in with Chinese gongs.†   (source)
  • I'd rather clean the inside of a Port-0— Let with my tongue than spend another minute in this cacophony.†   (source)
  • Calls rang out to the Steward, who waited for the cacophony to die down before addressing them again.†   (source)
  • How well they both hid the cacophony life wrote in their bones.†   (source)
  • He pricked up his ears and watched the blood drain from Aarfy's face as sirens mourned far away, police sirens, and then ascended almost instantaneously to a howling, strident, onrushing cacophony of overwhelming sound that seemed to crash into the room around them from every side.†   (source)
  • "Scholastic Aptitude Practice Test, English, Part III" floats at eye level, atop a long column of words-"cacophony," "metaphor," "alliteration"-and choices of definitions.†   (source)
  • Just then, though, the bell rang, triggering the usual cacophony of chairs being banged around, backpacks zipping, and voices rising.†   (source)
  • The automatic doors swished shut behind me as if to seal out the contamination of the cacophonous crowd outside, held back by a metal barrier.†   (source)
  • THE VOICE ECHOED around the edges of his consciousness, like a speaker in a murmuring crowd whose words rose above the cacophony to be heard, if only barely.†   (source)
  • The cacophony spun out of control as the crowds swelled through the amusement park in the countryside on the outskirts of Baltimore.†   (source)
  • He watched Cold Wax through a window and waited until there was a pause in the cacophony.†   (source)
  • The result was a cacophony of shape and color that the designer, with no detectable sign of irony, called Eclectic Deconstructionism.†   (source)
  • Or maybe the cacophony of alarms and the radical data flashing on the six big display screens told him in an instant all that he needed to know.†   (source)
  • Melanie understood the cacophony before I did.†   (source)
  • Seconds after our C-17 landed in Virginia Beach, every one of us turned on a phone to a cacophony of ringtones.†   (source)
  • Nass believes there will be a spread of voice technologies from higher- to lower-end things, and with this proliferation will come the issues of how we integrate them—"or do we want a cacophony of voices in our home screaming for attention?"†   (source)
  • Yes, well, it would prove difficult to sleep through this cacophony.†   (source)
  • When I walked through the fourth security checkpoint and into the cell block, the cacophony began.†   (source)
  • "God almighty," Tyler said when they were outside the cacophony.†   (source)
  • The dogs responded with a cacophony of shrill insults and counterwails.†   (source)
  • He'd been hearing the greensong of the forest for so many months that it was deafening, the silence when it was near gone, near completely killed by the cacophony of the jammering life on a White man's farm in spring.†   (source)
  • So in those years of cacophony in bombed-out Warsaw, and later at the camp, the memory of that work faded, even the title, which she ultimately confused with the titles of other pieces of music she had known and loved in time long past, until all that was left was a blurred but exquisite recollection of a moment of unrecapturable bliss, in Cracow, in another era.†   (source)
  • Every sunrise and every sunset the bird songs were near-deafening: a diurnal cacophony of notes clear and limpid, bizarre and unmelodious.†   (source)
  • a cacophony of different musical styles -- each trying to play louder than the other
  • Abruptly, the engine stopped, and an oppressive calm replaced the previous cacophony.†   (source)
  • But the cacophony organized itself into a throbbing rhythm.†   (source)
  • Screams suddenly filled the darkness, an approaching, growing cacophony of roaring voices.†   (source)
  • A cacophony of bewilderment and outrage.†   (source)
  • Even poor Jinglebell covered his ears at the cacophony.†   (source)
  • The roar of activity increased, a cacophony of shouts and whistles and jeers and laughing.†   (source)
  • But a cacophony filled Maryse's mind, the psychic echo of their shock and horror.†   (source)
  • The sound of the wind was replaced by a cacophony of voices whispering in a thousand languages.†   (source)
  • The angry coarse dialects of Marseilles rose over the cacophonous sounds of Le Bouc de Mer.†   (source)
  • It all blended into a cacophony of confusion that Martyn knew would amount to nothing.†   (source)
  • A cacophony of voices vibrated in the close, crowded space.†   (source)
  • Rising to his feet, Orik looked out toward the Empire, where the cacophony originated.†   (source)
  • His deep voice carried over the cacophony.†   (source)
  • The undulating cacophony was overwhelming, and that was not to his disadvantage, thought Jason.†   (source)
  • Would Jeb hear the struggle over the cacophony of the rivers?†   (source)
  • Later, after my last class, I translated Ovid while sitting up against the cinder-block wall outside the band room, trying to ignore the groaning cacophony coming from inside.†   (source)
  • But almost as soon as the Colonel left, the bugs encroached: no-see-ums (which, for the record, you can see) and mosquitoes hovered around me in such numbers that the tiny noise of their rubbing wings sounded cacophonous.†   (source)
  • The cacophony had grown louder by the minute, and now, so close to most of the Palace's population, it sounded as if a massive brawl was taking place just around the corner.†   (source)
  • As I did, the towering computers around me began to emit a cacophony of sound, like a grand orchestra tuning up.†   (source)
  • It mixed in his head now with the cacophony of the crashing waves and children screaming on the rides.†   (source)
  • Thick, yellow smoke poured out of the door, and a cacophony of shouting and gunshots came from inside.†   (source)
  • When the night came on, she stood in the outer kennel run listening to the spring peepers begin their cacophony and the bats flickering overhead and she looked at the frozen oculus of the moon as it rose above the trees and cast its blue radiance across the field.†   (source)
  • Tyrion put his spurs to his horse and added one more voice to the cacophony, and the van surged forward.†   (source)
  • Maybe she had sat here in the cacophonous darkness and felt some kind of desperation take her over, and maybe she found it impossible to unthink the thought of death.†   (source)
  • Despite the landlord's disapproval, the sweltering heat, the gloomy rooms, and the cacophony of strange noises, so unfamiliar to my country ears, I felt another swell of hope.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, the plastic in one of the windows shattered, and the muffled cacophony from outside rushed in to batter her ears.†   (source)
  • Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3 echoed with the cacophony common to huge air terminals.†   (source)
  • This is a cacophony.†   (source)
  • The city was filled with people: young people, old people, all singing and dancing to a blaring cacophony of music played by musicians stationed at every corner.†   (source)
  • In the background, she heard a woman's voice asking if he wanted another vodka tonic; Kevin's answer was lost in the cacophony.†   (source)
  • Roran watched the cacophonous parade vanish around a corner, then placed the last of the bread in his mouth and returned to the kitchen, which had filled with the rest of the household.†   (source)
  • School grew nearer, the early morning collision of struggle and apprehension building from taste to clamor, the bitterness on her tongue expanding to a cacophony that assaulted her entire mind.†   (source)
  • Deep bronze booms and silver chiming pounded through his skull, a maddening cacophony of noise that grew ever louder until it seemed as if his head would explode.†   (source)
  • A cacophony of hisses, yowls, and screams filled the night as the werecats sprang upon the soldiers and pulled them to the ground, tearing at them with claws and teeth.†   (source)
  • Nana was a walking cacophony.†   (source)
  • From cranes continually repositioning supplies to helicopters to the pumps to the endless pounding of metal on metal, the cacophony never stopped.†   (source)
  • Tyler said as the cacophony cut off.†   (source)
  • The automobile, so sleekly efficient on paper, was in practice a civic menace, belching out exhaust, kicking up storms of dust, becoming hopelessly mired in the most innocuous-looking puddles, tying up horse traffic, and raising an earsplitting cacophony that sent buggy horses fleeing.†   (source)
  • It was a strange cacophony, what with the bellows of Urgals intermingled with the melodious voices of the elves.†   (source)
  • The sounds of the street floated up, a strange cacophony of high-pitched voices, sudden shrieks and bicycle bells and the blaring horns of trucks and public buses.†   (source)
  • My demon drummer of the nether depths now chose to do his stuff, and the resultant cacophony rolled through the hush of the morning like distant thunder.†   (source)
  • I hear Helene scream something, but I can't make it out in the cacophony of pounding rain and clashing swords.†   (source)
  • Within seconds a cacophony of voices sprang out of the small, dotted speakers, asking in Schweizerdeutsch who was there.†   (source)
  • Their squawking, chirping, cooing, and crowing formed a cacophony so harsh, it made Eragon grit his teeth with annoyance.†   (source)
  • Rain pelted the roof and windshield, a thunderous cacophony that smothered the sound of passing tires on the wet pavement.†   (source)
  • Tears were shed and luggage was stacked in a cacophony of sound as Miss Awolowo answered last-minute questions and ushered parents to their cars.†   (source)
  • …when Dobbs wrested the controls away from Huple and hurled them all down suddenly into the deafening, paralyzing, horrifying dive which had plastered Yossarian helplessly to the ceiling of the plane by the top of his head and from which Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.†   (source)
  • All around, a cacophony is rising.†   (source)
  • As if in answer to Artkin's words, the sounds began again, the howl of the sirens and a new siren, the kind that screams ah-oo, ah-oo, a two-toned cacophony that cut through the other sounds like the voice of a machine gone mad.†   (source)
  • The driver locked up the brakes and the truck slid to a stop amid the deafening cacophony of dozens of AK-47s firing on full automatic.†   (source)
  • The tapping outside in the alleyway became more pronounced, and he suddenly realized it was less the sound of tapping than it was a soft cacophony of claws, snapping together in anticipation.†   (source)
  • He started the engine, gunned it, then pressed his hand on the powerful horn and held it there, raising the cacophony to unbearable proportions as the sea of bodies slowly, reluctantly parted.†   (source)
  • After they left Nasuada, Eragon and Saphira agreed to leave Feinster for the Varden's camp so that they could both rest undisturbed by the cacophony of noises within the city.†   (source)
  • With a rising cacophony of sound, the tapestry erupted with radiance so hot and bright Max feared it would consume him.†   (source)
  • Bourne held his place, suddenly alarmed by what he heard through the cacophony of pounding horns and gunning engines in the crowded street.†   (source)
  • As if to emphasize her point, birds, deer, squirrels-red and gray-striped badgers, foxes, rabbits, wolves, frogs, toads, tortoises, and every other nearby animal forsook their hiding and began to rush madly about with a cacophony of yelps and cries.†   (source)
  • He abruptly stopped, firing a third shot into another chandelier, the jarring cacophony covering the absent noise of his pounding feet as he spun around, throwing his back against the opposing wall of the eighth door, then pushing himself away, hurling his body at the door and crashing into it, smashing it off its hinges as he. lurched inside, plunging to the floor, his weapon raised, prepared for rapid fire.†   (source)
  • But Mother's Day was special, and children of every age swarmed the place, and a cacophony of conversations flowed in many languages and accents.†   (source)
  • The mental cacophony was so great, Eragon shielded himself from it and retreated to sit on one of Saphira's forelegs while he waited for the noise to subside.†   (source)
  • Suddenly again, with no warning whatsoever, a cacophony of Oriental music swelled, the cymbals and primitive wood instruments reaching abrupt crescendos with each stride of the ragtag band that marched down the street, its followers carrying placards mounted with flowers.†   (source)
  • "You can shut up!" shouted Jason from the cacophonous ice cream parlor in Corbeil-Essonnes in France.†   (source)
  • Around them, the light of the lanterns dimmed, and in his mind, Eragon seemed to hear the echo of thousands of voices: an unbearable cacophony of pains and joys innumerable, echoing forth from both the present and the past.†   (source)
  • Half of the young men gave their frames a vigorous shake when they stepped forward with their right foot, producing a dolorous cacophony of notes, while the other half shook their frames when they advanced upon the left foot, causing iron tongues to crash against iron throats and emit a mournful clamor that echoed over the hills.†   (source)
  • Only short blocks away traffic flowed turbulently on Flatbush Avenue, a place intensely urban, cacophonous, cluttered, swarming with jangled souls and nerves; but here the arboreal green and the pollen-hazy light, the infrequent trucks and cars, the casual pace of the few strollers at the park's border all created the effect of an outlying area in a modest Southern city—Richmond perhaps, or Chattanooga or Columbia.†   (source)
  • A weird cacophony results from this mixture and they stop singing to roar with laughter.†   (source)
  • And I can pray for any Confedrit soldier' and then cried in his old man's shrill harsh loud cacophonous voice.†   (source)
  • Tin horns were added to the cacophony.†   (source)
  • …same steeple where descendants of the same pigeons strutted and crooned or wheeled in short courses resembling soft fluid paint-smears on the soft summer sky); —a Sunday morning in June with the bells ringing peaceful and peremptory and a little cacophonous—the denominations in concord though not in tune—and the ladies and children, and house negroes to carry the parasols and flywhisks, and even a few men (the ladies moving in hoops among the miniature broadcloth of little boys and the…†   (source)
  • "Yet I'm not really angry," he assured himself, "when I see how she longs to run away and scratch from maggots in that dunghill of cacophony.†   (source)
  • Water plunged in a maddening cacophony of every conceivable noise and tone: thunders and hisses, howlings, boomings, tattoos, cracks, rattles, throbbings, and chimings—you truly could not hear yourself think.†   (source)
  • And after he had taken a sip, he would continue as follows: restraining further conversation with one hand, he created silence the way a conductor hushes the cacophony of instruments being tuned and with a commanding, cultured gesture summons his orchestra to begin the concert; for his large head with its encircling flames of white hair, with its pale eyes, deeply creased brow, long beard, and exposed, pained lips looked so unquestionably imposing that everyone obeyed his gesture.†   (source)
  • Obscurely comforted by the cacophony, I had pulled my traveling cloak around my shoulders and went to sleep myself.†   (source)
  • …of white articles of non-intellectual, non-political, non-topical underclothing while she (Nelly Bouverist) was in the articles: fifthly, the difficulties of the selection of appropriate music and humorous allusions from Everybody's Book of Jokes (1000 pages and a laugh in every one): sixthly, the rhymes, homophonous and cacophonous, associated with the names of the new lord mayor, Daniel Tallon, the new high sheriff, Thomas Pile and the new solicitorgeneral, Dunbar Plunket Barton.†   (source)
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