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The hum of telephone wires along the road, the ring of hidden crickets, the stitching sound of grasshoppers, the sudden relief of a meadow larks song,...
... grasshoppers ... clicketing ahead of him...
A gopher squeaked questioningly...
... the wind now, a pervasive sighing through great emptiness,
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, MacmiIlan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.11
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairie
TIME: 20th century
For one moment no wind stirred. A butterfly went pelting past.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p.12
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairie
TIME: 20th century
When porridge cooked, it went BUP BUP, very slowly at first, then faster; ...
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 20
PLACE Saskatchewan Prairie
TIME : 20th century
... the sound of grown-up voices casual in the silence, welling up almost to spilling over, then subsiding. The cuckoo clock poked the stillness nine times; the house cracked its knuckles; and the night wind, stirring through the leaves of the poplar ... strengthened until it was wild at his screen.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 20
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairie
TIME: 20th century
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