Yet, through it all, like a throbbing pedal note, ran his need of this girl.

Suddenly the heavy vibration of a single pedal note burst from the organ upon the breathing silence, long drawn out, rich, voluminous, and imposing.

A mournful wind blew through the trees, and sounded in the chimney like the pedal notes of an organ.

The huge moors, glimmering pale and unreal beneath their snow, ran past them into the sky-silent forms corresponding to who knows what pedal notes?