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Blood's voice came to him faintly through the plashing of the fountain.

Above the bird song, she could hear the plashing of a waterfall.

Linden heard nothing except the cool plashing of the fountain.

The faint smell of river-weed and plashing of water came from the river.

The plashing of fountains sounded in her ears.

The ship vibrated, and the slow plashing of the paddles came up from overside.

He listened to the plashing of the fountain while the shadows thickened and the tiny border lights came on along the paths.

Renardet, as he appeared, thought he heard a light sound, a faint plashing which was not that of the stream on the banks.

She heard the soft chirring of insects and the plashing of the sculpted waterfalls.

And the plashing of waterdrops In the marble fountain Comes down the garden-paths.

The only sounds to be heard were the soft, rhythmic plashing of the oars in the water and Raistlin's dry, wracking cough.

In the deathly silence, Jake could hear the plashing of the waves as if they were rows of crystal smashing.

The gentle plashing of rain in the rivulet a few feet away woke him some hours later; Denizli, who had drawn third watch, was on sentry go.

The knock is almost unheard over the gentle plashing of the fountain, but Gethen immediately rises, crosses the handwoven, patterned carpet, and opens the door.

Everything was cool and green and peaceful and the plashing of the water soothing after the noise and petrol fumes of the bus ride.

Some sections had a background of chirping and cicadalike buzzing; others included wavelike plashing and the tolling of phantom bell buoys.

The cool waves' gentle plashing against the boat, and the sweet chime of the lily-bells, lulled little Eva to sleep, and when she woke it was in Fairy-Land.

Still, it was lovely just to be here, smelling the salt sea-smell and feeling the warm planks beneath her and hearing the soft plashing of the water against the wooden piers.

They met with Chimple and Verayze at Iddromane's bower on the south side of the city, where the plashing of waves mingled with music from a flower-decked arbor.

The turbid water, swollen by the heavy rain, was rushing rapidly on below; and all other sounds were lost in the noise of its plashing and eddying against the green and slimy piles.

At times it was an indistinct plashing, like the cautious advance of a boat, then again a sharp noise like the rattle of an oar and then the sound of something dropping in the water.

It was very quiet here in the Grand West Arbor of Bowock; the plashing of waves underpad, "': where only a mat of roots separated the assembly from ocean ripples, was .

WORLDWAR: UPSETTING THE BALANCE racket that came from there was never-ending, like the plashing of a stream.