The corn came up beautifully, and far as the eye could reach around their home it tossed its broad green leaves with an ocean- like swelling of sibilant sound. Jim loved it with a sort of passion. Annie loved it, too. Sometimes, at night, when her fatigue was unbearable, and her irritation wearing out both body and soul, she took her little one in her arms and walked among the corn, letting its rustling soothe the baby to sleep.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
The Dictator replied in a violent whisper, so strong and sibilant
that every word was audible to the watcher at the window.英文原著 · 《New Arabian Nights》
"Is it no insult," said she, in a sibilant voice, "to talk to me as you are doing, when you have just told me that you love another woman, and are going to meet her?"英文原著 · 《The Golden Fleece》
They call our speech the "snake language," because of its hissing sound. Once this is brought to your attention, indeed, you cannot help noticing the superabundance of the sibilants.英文原著 · 《The Land of Footprints》
Once more the sibilant murmur ran down the line, and the voice of Sliver Waldron brought it faintly to a period.英文原著 · 《The Seventh Man》