"What was the cipher?""How did they find it out?" these and a hundred other questions were continually being dinned in their ears, coupled with slaps on the back, ejaculations of "Well done!""You're a precious sharp lot!" and many other expressions of approval.

the right!' was what she dinned into my ears from the time I was a small boy and didn't know but that all youngsters were brought up by sisters.

Indeed the unavoidable amount of controversy of all kinds, dinned into the ears of the faithful in a country like this, favours a fallacy of intellectualism very prejudicial to the repose of a living faith founded on concrete reasons, more or less experimental.

"God is a spirit," has been dinned into our ears from childhood; and hence we conclude that he who has no notion of a spirit can have no notion of God; and that the idea of God is of later growth than that of a ghost.

But the noisiest, dismalest place was the palace, the heart of all Rome, where the rain and hail dinned down on marble.

He then began to talk about and declaim against the French Revolution, for that is the doctrine now constantly dinned into the ears of all those who take orders; and he concluded by saying that things would never go on well in Europe until they restored to God the things they had taken from Him.

From Christmas and all through the spring my family and friends had dinned into my ears that now was my chance, and if I did not win this year I never would.

There is none of that noisy hate continually dinned into one's ears in London by papers which, to be sure, represent neither the better-class English civilians nor the light-hearted fighting man at the front, yet which are entertainingly written, do contain the news, and get themselves read.

The excitement upon this arrival soon subsided, and I had again fallen into unconsciousness, when a rough shake of the shoulder aroused me, and the voice of the old sergeant dinned in my ear,"Come here!

That phrase, that had been dinned so often into our ears, had a meaning for us now.

Only two men of any pretensions to superiority of talent have had part in the uproarious manufacture of this ware, that has been dinned in our ears by trumpet after trumpet, during the last six or seven years.

But my view of the subject appealed to principles which they could not contest, and had by no means the air of that customary reproof which is for ever dinned in our ears without finding one responsive chord in our hearts.

How it moaned and mocked and muttered At the cottage window, shuttered, Whence there streamed Fitful flecks of firelight mild: And within, a mother smiled, Singing softly to her child As there dinned Round the gabled roof and rafter Long and loud the shout and laughter Of the wind, The wild November wind.

Clara herself in later life was long distressed by hearing a continual pattern of "sequences" in her head, and Bizet's early death was a release from two notes that dinned his ears interminably.

Many a dinner, therefore, did we declinemany a route did we reject; my husband's popularity tottered, and the inviters, though they no longer dinned their dinners in our ears, and teazed us with their "teas," vowed secret vengeance, and muttered "curses, not loud, but deep.

It was daily dinned into my cars that the little things of life were the noblest, and that all the great people I mooned about said the same.

Now when these new praises were dinned into his ears, when he did convince himself that, as far as worldly matters went, his son-in-law was likely to become a prosperous and respected gentleman, he would fain have let the question of hostility drop.

This word was dinned in my ears.

I was told that I should succumb to the contagion as others had; but it was not the optimism which was dinned into my ears that affected me as much as sidelights.

"I have it dinned into my ears till I ought to believe it; but tell me of her manner, her conversation, her temper.

At this point I profited by a lesson which had been dinned into my ears a good many times since boyhood.

As a matter of fact Bob, having discovered someone obliging and intelligent enough to listen, dinned the story of his aspirations into the girl's ear with the persistent egoism of a hobbedehoy.

The Old Masterswe're always having it dinned into usdidn't hustle; they mugged away at a Saint, or a Virgin and Child, and never minded if it took 'em half a lifetime.

We were all heartily tired of Simon's Bay long before leaving it; not the less so from having this all engrossing Caffre war dinned into our ears from morning to night as an excuse for high prices, and sometimes for extortions, which I had before supposed to be peculiar to new colonies.

"The same ridicule that has been dinned into my ears since I was a child.