As a vehicle for delivering opera to the heartland, this production should do fine; the company's young singers sometimes made some disagreeable sounds, but they will undoubtedly become more secure in their roles as the tour goes on.

It was a loud, unpleasant bell, and made a very disagreeable sound.

But when he sat on the edge of his bed of furs and swung the leg carefully back and forth, his knee made a disagreeable little clicking sound and hot billows of pain went shooting along his thigh.

The announcement made by the squirrel was so entirely unexpected that the surprise of it buried all memory of the disagreeable sound.

He made a disagreeable sound in the back of his throat.

It was raining outside and, what was more surprizing, inside too; from somewhere in the room came the disagreeable sound of large quantities of water dripping liberally upon floor and furniture.

He made a disagreeable sound.

Briala, who was pretending to ignore them all, made a disagreeable sound.

Replied Stravinsky: "If you do not hear the works of Wagner here, you undoubtedly avoid many disagreeable sounds. . . . I do not wish to hear the music of Wagner again."

One can scarcely imagine a more disagreeable sound.