A grasshopper clicketed briefly; he heard its dry thud on the walk behind him.
...the tall prairie grass hissing against his legs,...
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 245.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
Now and then the song of a meadow lark, the squeak of a gopher.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 252
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
...a sharp, snapping sound had come to him, like the clear punctuation of dead underbrush cracking and popping.
...heard a wild, harsh hissing, a fierce sibilance deep in the owl's gray throat.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 255.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
He spat with a distinct plop into the spittoon.
W. O. Mitchell,Who Has Seen the Wind, Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1947, p. 260.
PLACE: Saskatchewan Prairies
TIME: 20th century
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