1.   The mountain air is alive with sound -- with hoots and hollers, shrilling whistles, the thrumming and trilling of drums and harps and fiddles.

2.   Party supporters sing and dance their way through the city in a cacophony of honking horns, beating drums and shrilling whistles.

3.   A din of honking horns and shrilling whistles filled the city.

4.   But rival candidates have drawn huge crowds that have filled the capital with honking horns, beating drums and shrilling whistles in the days leading up to the vote.