Ships' warning noises

Usage examples of foghorns.

From the unseen river, hundreds of feet below, foghorns boom in still longer and lower choruses of baleful warning, as if every place they sound from had already been the site of a terrible shipwreck, and the horns placed there to mourn long-drowned sailors.

I walk through a dense silence, then the foghorns sound, one after another.

In short, it was child's play for Leo, supported by foghorns, sirens, and a whistling cartridge case, to draw a frozen Oskar after him.

No one could have seen from the beach how Greff laid down the bicycle, unwrapped the ax from the onion sack, and stood for a while in devout silence, listening to the foghorns of the icebound freighters in the roadstead.

Out in the harbor, whistles and foghorns still made occasional clamor in the thick fog.

Out of the harbor, the foghorns still moaned, but the hissing of steam escaping from the near-by tugboat had stopped.

They listen to the foghorns, vainly try to make out the silhouettes of boats in the fog, then turn back over the canals and go home through the rain.

The blind ship floated in a steamy void, rock-ing, and around it the foghorns suddenly seemed louder.

I begin to fade into the orange rugs as the foghorns call out for more.