When we arrived in the port of Algiers, a great number of persons were collected to receive us; and we had not yet disembarked, when they uttered a thousand shouts of joy. Add to this, that the air re-echoed with a confused sound of trumpets, of Moorish flutes, and of other instruments, the fashion of that country, forming a symphony of deafening clangour, but very doubtful harmony.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1
"At dawn the next morning I was awoken by a terrific clangour which turned out to be made by a flock of red-eyed pigeons dancing on the tin roof of the guesthouse." - 'Resetlement, Ethiopia, 1985', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
When we arrived in the port of Algiers, a great number of persons were collected to receive us; and we had not yet disembarked, when they uttered a thousand shouts of joy. Add to this, that the air re-echoed with a confused sound of trumpets, of Moorish flutes, and of other instruments, the fashion of that country, forming a symphony of deafening clangour, but very doubtful harmony.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1
"At dawn the next morning I was awoken by a terrific clangour which turned out to be made by a flock of red-eyed pigeons dancing on the tin roof of the guesthouse."
- 'Resetlement, Ethiopia, 1985', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.