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198....he had not been able to sleep a wink all night because of the silence. (Indeed, the house was surrounded by a park fifteen miles in circumference and a wall ten feet high.) Silence, he said, was of all things the most oppressive to his nerves.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, The Hogarth Press, London, 1960, p. 87.
PLACE: country in England
TIME: l6th century
Soon, the whole town would be astir with the crackling of whips, the beating of gongs, cryings to prayer, lashing of mules, and rattle of brass-bound wheels...
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, The Hogarth Press, London, 1960, p. 111.
PLACE: Constantinople
TIME: early 1700's
She heard a fox bark in the woods, and the clutter of a pheasant trailing through the branches. She heard the snow slither and flop from the roof to the ground.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, The Hogarth Press, London, 1960, p. 160.
PLACE: Blackfriars, England
TIME: 18th century
She heard the sound of chariot wheels driven at a furious pace down the courtyard. She heard them rattle along the road. Fainter and fainter the sound became. Now it faded away altogether.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, The Hogarth Press, London, 1960, p. 167.
PLACE: Blackfriars, England
TIME: 18th century
There was the faint rattle of a coach on the cobbles. She heard the far-away cry of the night watchman--"Just twelve o'clock on a frosty morning". No sooner had the words left his lips than the first stroke of midnight sounded.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, The Hogarth Press, London, 1960, p. 203.
PLACE: Blackfriars, England
TIME: 18th century
...the uproar of the street sounded violently and hideously cacophonous ... Along the edge of the pavement stood men, holding out trays of toys, and bawled. At corners, women sat beside great baskets of spring flowers and bawled. Boys running in and out of the horses' noses, holding printed sheets to their bodies, bawled too,..
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, The Hogarth Press, London, 1960, p. 246.
PLACE: London
TIME: 19th century
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