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  • And our vigil was rewarded when we heard the pod begin to vocalise, communicating with each other in a series of far-carrying chirrups and clicks.

    Country diary: South Uist 2011

  • I heard it as you might “hear” a lighthouse—a voice on its own, powering away through the wind, a clean shout of far-carrying pure song.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • I thought there were three because their burden was on three different notes, soft, caressing, yet far-carrying.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • A strong, far-carrying male voice began to sing to the softened thud of the drum.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • The warriors started up, glaring wildly, and a voice rose above their clamor, a far-carrying voice of command which came from none knew where.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The warriors started up, glaring wildly, and a voice rose above their clamor, a far-carrying voice of command which came from none knew where.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The old woman was struggling with surprizing strength and energy, and as he watched, she lifted her head and voiced again the strange, weird, far-carrying call he had heard before.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The old woman was struggling with surprizing strength and energy, and as he watched, she lifted her head and voiced again the strange, weird, far-carrying call he had heard before.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The warriors started up, glaring wildly, and a voice rose above their clamor, a far-carrying voice of command which came from none knew where.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • The old woman was struggling with surprising strength and energy, and as he watched, she lifted her head and voiced again the strange, weird, far-carrying call he had heard before.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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