Some of the crackles and pops were lightning, but the eerie whistles and curiously melodious chirps had a rather more exotic origin.

I remember well one gaunt Nimrod who would catch up a leaf by the roadside and play a strain on it wilder and more melodious, if my memory serves me, than any hunting horn.

I am very frustrated in the grocery stores, because, we have now many people from Asia, and I hear this melodious, up and down sounds that I can't pause at all, that I'm so frustrated,

For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.