There were rubber insets in her shoes which sagged so that her ankles seemed actually to touch the floor from the climbing upstairs and downstairs on her missionary treadmill of the cracked slop jar; the fly in the milk; the too-tepid shaving water; the bathroom monopoly; the infant cacophony of midnight colic; salt on the sleety sidewalk, the pasted handkerchief against a front window pane; ice water.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
I have had them out in a meadow for hours, baked and drenched, to get them rid of their native cacophony.
"The Short Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
But there was tumult all around her in the lab, a cacophony of alarmed voices echoing off the hard surfaces of glass and steel.
"Syndrome"
Thomas Hoover