He heard a steady rushing of arteries and an occasional bowel-like gurgle from the naked walls.

Carol was not introduced to him, but from her adjacent room she could hear his voice; could hear, too, the occasional gurgle of Glenfiddich and the clink of the office glasses.

Duchamp's urinal was a pis aller after which there should have been silence, broken only by the occasional gurgle from the cistern.

Aaron heard the occasional gurgle from the sewer.

Except for an occasional gurgle, even his colon seemed to be cooperating-at least for the moment.

The place was soundproofed; you couldn't hear the bustle of the fourteenth floor's stalls at all, only the hum of some kind of air conditioner and the occasional gurgles of the hot-water machine.

In the stillness, they could hear the bus making an occasional gurgle or creak as it cooled, and then it, too, grew still, as if defeated.

To Norman it sounded like tape noise, with an occasional gurgle of the water.

Beyond the trees we could see a field of maize shimmering in the sunshine, and the only sounds were birdsong and the occasional gurgle from the river.

So quietly did the little stream drip and ripple its way through the canyon that it spoke only in faint and occasional gurgles.