Only it'll be noisier than ever up in your room, for it's right over the office, and the way sound travels up is something fierce.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Interest, of course, was an altogether second-rate feeling compared to love, and because it was second-rate it was noisier, expressing itself with a copiousness unnecessary when one got to the higher stages of feeling.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
As Mrs. Lovenant-Smith and Miss Harriet always took tea in their own or one another's rooms-which, for that matter, the students also were permitted to do if they chose-the meal was a noisier one than either lunch or supper.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions