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All around us there was laughter, shouting and sounds like the cackling of a flock of geese being chased by a spaniel.
Alain Fournier,The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), Signet Classics, New York, 1971, p. 102.
PLACE: Epineul, Department of Cher, Central France.
TIME: 1898
... a medley of cries, calls and chirping, the sound of a pail on the lip of a well, and the crack of a whip in the distance.
Alain Fournier,The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), Signet Classics, New York, 1971, p. 111.
PLACE: Epineul, Department of Cher, Central France.
TIME: 1898
And in the silence I heard a bird - I imagined it was a nightingale but I must have been mistaken, since they sing only at night - a bird that kept stubbornly repeating the same phrase; a voice of the morning, words spoken in the shade, a charming invitation to wander among the alders.
Alain Fournier,The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), Signet Classics, New York, 1971, p. 113.
PLACE: Epineul, Department of Cher, Central France.
TIME: 1898
It was raining a little. I could hear the clanging bells of streetcars going by endlessly.
Alain Fournier,The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), Signet Classics, New York, 1971, p. 123.
PLACE: Paris, France.
TIME: 1905
Later that night - last night - when the children and women had quieted down in their back yards enough to let me sleep, I began hearing cabs roll by in the street. They passed only now and then, but after each one I waited for the next in spite of myself, listening for the jingling bell, the clatter of the horse's hooves on the pavement.
Alain Fournier,The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), Signet Classics, New York, 1971, p. 124.
PLACE: Paris, France.
TIME: 1905
As I was climbing the bare hills on that winter Sunday I heard the call to vespers ringing in the distance.
Alain Fournier,The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes), Signet Classics, New York, 1971, p.172.
PLACE: Paris, France.
TIME: 1905
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