31.   The sound was as final as the closing of a coffin lid.

32.   The sound was barely perceptible.

33.   The sound was so soft that I could only just hear it.

34.   The sound was something like a pond full of croaking toads.

35.   The sound was tar oft and barely audible.

36.   Then there was no sound but the crackle of burning bushes.

37.   There are no sounds except the flickering of the flame and the hiss of some burning wood that has not thoroughly dried.

38.   There had been no sound in those days of course, twenty odd years ago now.

39.   There was a sound of a car backfiring far off in the night.