The sudden sibilation out of silence startles all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 6, 1892] Reference

Amanar heard in his mind the satisfied sibilation of the god-demon feeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

A second muffled explosion, then silence except for the sibilation of the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Calde of the Long Sun]

It was deceptively loud because the sharp sibilation cut through every other sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission Of Honor]

Again Poole's lips moved, and now his voice was just audible as a faint sibilation, producing no intelligible sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin] Reference

Suddenly, like the hiss of ten thousand times ten thousand snakes, a rushing sibilation passed through the momentarily darkened air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mark of the Beast] Reference

A dolorous whistle chimed harmonies, and with regular sibilation came to time, quavering out the chromatic moments of this nasal hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

In these exercises examples and difficult words are given in several languages, alliteration, sibilation, and all quips and turns of consonantal and vocalic expression, word-position, etc., are in use to test the power of speech alike of child and adult.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

He was turning back when he fancied he heard the sibilation of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference

My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent-minded men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

Bob whistled, -- a long sibilation of amazement, -- and then laughed and laughed again.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tar-Heel Baron] Reference

He was turning back when he fancied he heard the sibilation of a whispering in the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

From far to the south drifted a fainter sibilation, like an echo of thirty-three's whistle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

There was something dismal, something of the sick-room, in this perpetual, guarded sibilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference

Her voice was peculiar, very low and sweet, and so soft that the dominant note was of sibilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lair of the White Worm] Reference

The world was still, except for the sibilation of the whispering heads bunched together over the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within the Tides] Reference

When a lady walks through a college quadrangle and hears no sibilation, let her know sadly that first youth is past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pipefuls] Reference

Challenger walked across to the oxygen tube, and the sound of the loud hissing fell away till it was the most gentle sibilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poison Belt]

In place of martial airs and musical utterance, there rose upon the ear a strange din of harsh gutturals and singular sibilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

A strange multitudinous noise accompanies it, -- a noise like the tremendous sibilation of a mile-long wave just before it breaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference

He isoclinal to er alexic solomonic phon at unblushingly methotrexate, and he puts that whippersnapper to turtledove in his sibilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The pattering becomes a rushing in the tree-tops, a wild sibilation as of serpents in the fire, and a steady rattling and whizzing in the swamps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drummer Boy] Reference

At night, when they were passing a palace in one of the dark streets, a feather, accompanied by a sharp sibilation from above, dropped on Wilfrid's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

'At one point the wife of the author was apparently unable to control her emotions, and she was heard to express her disapprobation by a prolonged sibilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Play A Novel] Reference

A hissing conversation it is true, but not unmodulated or without considerable variety in it; a long sibilation would be followed by distinctly-heard ticking sounds, as of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

The oats hung their curved heads of little pendulous bells, and gave out a low murmuring sibilation -- its only lament that its day was over, and sun and wind no more for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

In the southern provinces it is "Opeechee, the robin," who ushers in spring, with his clear, ringing, military call, but in this nor'land its harbinger is the soft sibilation of the blackbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference

He hissed out the question, "Who are you?" to the hunchback; and in listening to that essence of sibilation, it really seemed as if it proceeded from the serpent that curled upon his upper lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wondersmith] Reference

I have heard Rossetti say that what came most of all uppermost in Coleridge, was his wonderful intuitive knowledge and love of the sea, whose billowy roll, and break, and sibilation, seemed echoed in the very mechanism of his verse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Reference

Collot d'Herbois, they say, was once hissed on the Lyons stage: but with what sibilation, of world-catcall or hoarse Tartarean Trumpet, will ye hiss him now, in this his new character of Convention Representative, -- not to be repeated!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

And suddenly, all is blotted out: the pillars of water, doubtless still there, can no more be seen: for the ocean all about them is steaming, hissing higher than the pillars a dense white vapour, vast in extent, whose venomous sibilation we at this distance can quite distinctly hear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purple Cloud] Reference

"It is true," said Zabdas, a low sibilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

The sibilation produced by the sap, which exudes copiously therefrom, is not conducive to composition. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

He with a long low sibilation, stared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Princess] Reference

S. S.has a hissing sound, as sibilation, sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference