Significados de passing sound en inglés

How awful and supernatural seemed every passing sound that beat upon my anxious ears!

Occasionally from the main road on the opposite shore there was a passing sound of wheels.

Hebrew lamentation of the most tenacious of races, at the passing sound of a Babylonian or a Ninevite voice?

One could not tell much from such a swift and passing sound, but he concluded that it was a German shell replying.

A passing sound of distant bells;

At every tap of the prison-bell he would spring to the door and listen, asserting that he heard the consul's voice in every passing sound.

Deayton has a comedian's instinct for a running gag, and this motif of endless buck- passing sounds to me just like that.