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There was some hushing, and the Judge went on with what he had to say to the rest.
But this time there was an urgency to her hushing.
His voice carried through the ceaseless hushing of the wind- That was all he said.
The pause that had followed his hushing of the Tabriz!
It was a green dark, full of a deep solemn hushing like heartbeats.
They heard her voice, the attendant's mild hushing.
Wind stirred with a wordless hushing in the Forest of Andernesse.
There was a certain amount of wind - a hushing, ruffling sort of wind which meant that rain was coming soon.
The tenseness and waiting, all the hushing of voices were over; and everybody was talking at the top of their voices, all around Jens.
She could hear some noise in the direction of the Sea Gate, seeming very remote through the sound of the wind and the hushing of the snow.
Knowing my penchant for trying to silence the unsilenceable, a friend sent me a news clipping about a man shot to death in a theater for unsolicited hushing.
The use of hushing has been confirmed by field survey and archaeology at Dolaucothi in South Wales, the only known Roman gold mine in Britain.
Excessive pain, whether it be physical or mental, cannot last long,--and human anguish wound up to its utmost quivering-pitch finds at the very height of desolation, a strange hushing, Lethean calm.
Timberlake, S, Early leats and hushing remains: suggestions and disputes for roman mining and prospection for lead, Bulletin of the Peak District mines Historical Society, 15 (2004), 64 ff.
The cold and the damp were making his nose run and the slap of water and the hushing of wind in the reeds and the little sounds he was making were punctuated by his sniffles.
In case you are someone who talks through movie previews and credits, film titles generally appear after the film quiz, after the dancing hot dogs and popcorn, after the on-screen hushing and before the movie proper has begun.
At Dolaucothi, these trip-hammers were hydraulic-driven and possibly also at other Roman mining sites, where the large scale use of the hushing and ground sluicing technique meant that large amounts of water were directly available for powering the machines.
Problems in propaganda arose easily in this stage; expectations of success were raised too high and too quickly, which required explanation if they were not fulfilled, and blunted the effects of success, and the hushing of blunders and failures caused mistrust.
As he neared the silent house, the faint creak of saddle-leather and the rattle of spur-chains against his iron stirrups were smothered in the whispering of the treetops in the grove, so that only the quick hushing of night noises alone betrayed him to any wakeful ear.
Although the term "hushing" was not used in South West England, there is a reference to the technique being used at Tregardock in North Cornwall, where in around 1580 mine adventurers used the method to work a lead-silver deposit, although lives were lost in the attempt.
The noblemen in both big and small rooms grouped themselves by camps, and from the hostility and mistrustfulness of the glances, from the hushing of talk whenever an outsider approached, from the fact that people went off to a far corridor to whisper, one could see that each side had secrets from the other.
Illusion or not, the rushing sound of the wind was unmistakable-it was as if it drove across great open spaces, for there was no hushing of leaves or trees in it, only the booming and echoing of wind in defiles and great ravines, the roaring of wind that coursed vast deserts.
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