Decorative icing

Usage examples of piping.

He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.

Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute--players.

Leon had called Moynihan late Sunday night, but the piping voice of the Benet body had not been authoritative enough to get any information out of that damned Irish hoodlum.

Jack Boysenberry zipped up quickly and self-consciously and looked around at the sound of the gnarly, piping voice.

But he had scarcely emitted three puffs before the piping voice of Arabella Cadge was again wafted to his ears.

Its small black eyes glared at them and it bobbed its head like a giant chuckwalla, piping and hissing steadily.

He also brought out a large tangle of metal-sheathed piping, coiled around his hand.

Aside from a torpedo launch, the check valves in the coolant piping made the loudest noise the Devilfish could make.

The main coolant check valves slamming the piping from the order to go to flank speed.

Its slanting lower surface had a mock-up piping diagram of the main coolant system that showed the portcoolant loop on the left and its mirror image on the right.

In minutes he was standing in a narrow passage full of dripstone formations whose intricacy made him think of the valves and piping of the body.

We were, I can say, stunning, dramatic: logo-covered Gore-Tex laminated directly on our skin, Camel-Bak bags automatically pouring water through esophageal piping in response to computerized blood-density readings.

It was in the midst of such signs of expectation that the call of the boatswain was heard piping the side on board the Foudroyant, and four side-boys lay over on the accommodation-ladder, a mark of honor never paid to one of a rank less than that of a captain.

For there on the flat shore were pictures of Grecian lions and Mediterranean goats and maidens with flesh of sand like powdered gold and satyrs piping on hand-carved horns and children dancing, strewing flowers along and along the beach with lambs gambolling after and musicians skipping to their harps and lyres, and unicorns racing youths towards distant meadows, woodlands, ruined temples and volcanoes.

When the Generalissima was finished, very high piping music could be heard as the mouse pipers played their bagpipes and the drummers beat their drums.