Their pronunciation was quick, and the words they uttered, not having any apparent connection with visible objects, I was unable to discover any clue by which I could unravel the mystery of their reference.
"This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by degrees I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked.
As Dantes (his eyes turned in the direction of the Chateau d'If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomegue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor's eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan.
He rose again to the surface, struggled with the last desperate effort of a drowning man, uttered a third cry, and felt himself sinking, as if the fatal cannon shot were again tied to his feet.
She sprang to her feet, but so lightly that the movement did not frighten the freakish animal; then she caught sight of Philippe, and darted away, followed by her four-footed friend, to a hedge of elders; there she
uttered the same little cry like a frightened bird, which the two men had heard near the other gate.
Oftenest I have unwisely
uttered my wisdom in the ears of sick persons, when the inquietude of fever made them toss about upon my cushion.
They were at the corner of the Strand, but as though in
utter forgetfulness of their whereabouts, he had suddenly stopped short and gripped her tightly by the arm.
But a greater grief than the loss of the launch could have engendered in me, filled my heart--a sullen, gnawing misery which I tried to deny--which I refused to admit--but which persisted in obsessing me until my heart rose and filled my throat, and I could not speak when I would have
uttered words of reassurance to my companions.
But the ready-witted Dorothea, who by this time so well understood Don Quixote's humour, said, to mollify his wrath, "Be not irritated at the absurdities your good squire has
uttered, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, for perhaps he did not
utter them without cause, and from his good sense and Christian conscience it is not likely that he would bear false witness against anyone.
There was something so uncommon in her manner, that the flesh of the concealed listener crept as he heard the girl
utter these words, and the blood chilled within him.
David began to
utter sounds that would have shocked his delicate organs in more wakeful moments; in short, all but Hawkeye and the Mohicans lost every idea of consciousness, in uncontrollable drowsiness.
26-28) `Shepherds of the wilderness, wretched things of shame, mere bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to
utter true things.'