10 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:24:04 in the radio play.
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- But feeling the rain upon his back and fearing the rising of the tempest, uplifted his axe and quickly made a hole in the plankings of the door for his gauntleted hand...
- And now pulling sturdily, he so cracked and ripped all asunder, that the noise of the dry and hollow-sounding wood alarumed and reverberated... throughout the forest.
- Why do you stop?
- Why, that's... that's strange. I fancied I just heard the very sound I read about.
- Let us say it was caused by the storm. Pray continue.
- Oh, yes, the storm. Of course.
- But Ethelred, upon entering the door, was amazed to perceive no sign of the evil hermit...
- But, instead, a dragon of prodigious and scaly demeanor, which sat on guard before a shield of shining brass.
- And Ethelred uplifted his axe, and struck the head of the dragon, which fell before him with a shriek so horrid and harsh... like whereof was never before...
- What sound is that?
- Sound? The shriek of a dragon, my friend. Read on.
- I, er... Very well.
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