Word: droning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have made their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug...
Literature: Amid the serene literary chorus of his day, Howells' steady and somewhat dismal drone occasioned much neck-craning in the audience. His was the first-and persists the truest-note of realism that the U. S. has heard. "Dullness," he said, "is dear to me." Beside realism as we have it today, that of Howells pales, of course, is called drabness; but at the time, his refusal to succumb to the chivalrous romanticism his contemporaries had inherited from England made him, roughly, the Sinclair Lewis...
Which humming issued thro' the Concave drone...
...Crouching pallid in the dock, abject or surly or swooning, his lips parched, his fingers fumbling over his face, the soul within him howling like a dark creature brought to earth, a murderer waiting for sentence. The judge's words drone in his ears, he lifts his sleeve to hide his cheek. It is important, that sleeve. If suave, well-turned, fashionable, this agony and sweat will pass; he will merely remove his abode to a comfortable jail where he can eat, sleep, exercise, read, at leisure. If the sleeve be tattered, he will dance on the wind...
...assembled diplomats. But nothing served to alter the cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany. Pandemonium fit for a madhouse continued. In vain did the President rap his desk and tinkle his bell. Some minutes later he succeeded in reducing the noise to an excited drone and announced that the finals-vote on the Railroad Bill was 314 to 127. The Experts' Plan was virtually in effect...