Rennard thought he heard the distant strains of a song.

From where he sat, he could hear distant strains of music.

Apart from that insistent little noise, and the distant strains of the opera, the room fell silent.

Rosita Calderon was forgotten; the distant strains of dance music seemed to come from another world.

The quiet, almost haunting sounds of diagnostic tools trickled through the room and failed to fill it, like the distant strains of a musical instrument.

Luther was another cousin, another Chandler from a distant strain.

Even in the heart of the stone building, he could hear the distant strains of music and the murmur of dialogue.

I lay hid under a rock by the side of my beloved Acis, and listened to the distant strain.

Gabby could hear the sounds of children frolicking in the surf and distant, indistinguishable strains of conversation.

But the distant strains of' Abide With Me' cooled their ardour.