"Voice over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... chattered an agitated voice over the line. "He—he called himself 'Mary Jane.' He hasn't any business to be a big man with a brown beard! What shall we do? We don't want a big man ...
— Miss Billy's Decision • Eleanor H. Porter
... patrol, and no word from Mojave. Obediently, Grant had not called in. He set course for Mojave and was nearly ready to transmit when a bark of static filled the pressurized control bubble. Disappointed, Grant heard a male voice over the speaker. ...
— A Fine Fix • R. C. Noll
... she came, and as he heard her soft voice over the wire Anstice's face grew grim with ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... answered a little squeaking voice over his head. "This is me up here, in my ball-dress; and that's my skin. Ha, ha! you could not do such a trick ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley
... voice over his shoulder, and swinging about with a convulsive start, Mitchell recognized Charles Miller. With common impulse he and Foster sprang up, but he was the first to reach Miller's side, and the candlelight ...
— I Spy • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... in a faltering voice over the phone she promised as soon as possible, Charlie asked the kindly Sister who was hovering near to ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... the—are you at with my missus under the trees?" growled a brutal voice over his shoulder, while Tom felt he was helplessly pinioned by a pair of strong arms from behind, that crushed and bruised him like iron. Ere he could twist his hands free to show fight, which he meant to do pretty fiercely, he found himself baffled, blinded, suffocated, by a handkerchief thrust into ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... of the final strokes was dying away the expected summons came. Dr. Cairn's jaw squared and his mouth was very grim, when he recognised his son's voice over the wires. ...
— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer
... with her hand on her heart—suffering a pain that was almost physical. Then she rushed to the door and cried in a loud voice over the ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... said, casting his voice over his shoulder, "did you happen to read in the paper this morning that the police commissioner—the new one, the one that was appointed while we were in France—would be in the reviewing ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... from its rugged base; Yet many a goodly rood of land lies deep Beneath the wild wave buried, which rolls on Its course exulting o'er the prostrate towers Of high cathedral—church—and abbey fair,— Lifting its loud and everlasting voice Over the ruins, which its depths enshroud, As if it called on Time, to render back The things that were, and give to life again All that in dark oblivion sleeps below:— Perched on the summit of that lofty cliff ...
— Enthusiasm and Other Poems • Susanna Moodie
... see," said a voice over against the cooking exhibit, "what there is in this to set ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick
... it the expressman would not give it up until he had telephoned to Dr. Shelton and recognized the doctor's voice over the wire. It seems that that box was packed with ancient silver images that had been found in a ruined temple in Yucatan, and had been sent to Dr. Shelton by the man who found them. They claim they were worth at the least five ...
— Wyn's Camping Days - or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club • Amy Bell Marlowe |
