Then he felt the tug again, and a faint but familiar voice seemed to sound close by.

His rich voice sounded very close to Eve's head, which told her he'd bent down to study the work.

She sounded closer, but Paris thought that might be his imagination.

She looked around for coyotes-they sounded close- and saw none.

It sounds closer, but of course we were inside before.

The running feet sounded too close around the corner.

The next time the voice behind her called her name, it sounded closer.

Seeing that, she would have fled, I think, had not the horn sounded closer from the west.

The explosions were sounding closer, and he could hear the aircraft clearly.

The wall of the valley was curving, and he believed that the voice sounded closer.