When the spool ran out the line hummed, and if he held it between his fingers, the wind's fluctuations were communicated to him as a kind of music.

The line clicked and hummed, disconnected.

The line hummed; then Gervais's voice spoke.

I wondered what the lines were humming so hot and heavy for,' he said, his image beaming an ear-to-ear smile at them from the screen.

They whirled again as canvas unfurled, lines grew taut, and somewhere a flywheel hummed into the ultrasonic.

There was a brief wait while the line hummed.

The line hummed for half a minute.

The line hummed in his ear for a few seconds, and then she said, "Is it really Parker?"

The line hummed for a little, and then Fairfax came back on.

The lines on the clips hummed.