Then we heard the whistles, and we again told the nurse, and she came and opened the door.
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The corpora comprised twenty spoken and whistled messages.
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Each of these whistled proverbs was followed by the spoken version, and each word was also whistled independently.
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Simple apparatus for imitating animal sounds from the late eighteenth century onwards featured string-pulled miniature bellows; mouth-blown bird calls and whistles are, of course, much more ancient.
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What types of whistled languages are there ?
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The diffuse and atmospheric comfort of the small but bright gramophone sound corresponds to the humming gaslight and is not entirely foreign to the whistling teakettle of bygone literature.
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We will show here that tone-based whistled languages transpose not only the tones of the source language, as has been previously observed, but also its signal envelope.
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The top price was $1.20, and the top tunes were those that could be recorded often and well - whistled items, solos by "penetrating" musical instruments, and band numbers.
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More bells and whistles [video].
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To claim this as such a glorious record is whistling in the dark.
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I do not understand the bells and whistles that make these things operate.
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Such ownership alone would be enough to increase its market value significantly without adaptations, improvements or bells and whistles.
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Suddenly, out of the sky slid two, four, 10, 20 teal, the wind whistling through their feathers as they side-slipped into the flash.
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Will he give us the gas and coal figures, or will we still be whistling in the dark on the comparisons?
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I think they are whistling to keep their spirits up.
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Collocationswithwhistle
whistle
These are words often used in combination withwhistle.
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loud whistle
Track two is silent, and track three emits aloudwhistle, calculated to wake one up (if necessary).
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low whistle
Courtship starts with the male chasing the female, the two hopping together through branches, and the male bobbing its head, bowing and giving a croaking call orlowwhistle.
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shrill whistle
When scared, puku repeat ashrillwhistlesound.
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