4570 examples of echoes in sentences

each wind-swayed wall She pictureth over, and peopleth it all With echoes and dreams, And singing of streams.

"Tell me, by the by, did you notice an air of desertion in the lower part of the house?" "There seemed to be echoes," he admitted.

For this faux pas the gangling youth stopped Peter, fell to abusing and cursing him for his impudence, his egotism, his attempt at social equality,all of which charges, no doubt, were echoes from the round table.

It merely echoes the pulpit and a portion of the general public.

The procession continued its way toward the Institute, where the cadets made the military salute as the hearse passed in front of them, and the sudden thunder of artillery awoke the echoes from the hills.

As the cortége entered the Institute grounds a salute of artillery thundered its arrival, and reverberated it far across the distant hills and valleys of Virginia, awakening echoes which have been hushed since Lee manfully gave up the struggle of the "lost cause" at Appomattox.

" The sound of the light laugh and little snatches and echoes of gay talk came back like heartless elves to mock Jim's sorrow.

Perchance the echoes of old songs Found here a resting place at last With drifting perfume that belongs To roses of the past.

"Their king, their lords, their mightiest low, They melted from the field as snow, Tweed's echoes heard the ceaseless splash While many a broken band, Disorder'd, through her currents dash, To gain the Scottish land; To town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal tale, And raise the universal wail.

There was not even the sound of disappearing footsteps, nor the echoes of the dying voice.

The woods rang with echoes.

"S, E, A; S, E, A; S, E, A; Saint Eustace!" replied the left bank with a defiant roar of sound that was caught by the hills and flung back in echoes across the water.

the Negro children of Antigua are taught liberty from their Bibles, from their song books, and from their copy books too; they read of liberty, they sing of it, and they write of it; they chant to liberty in their school rooms, and they resume the strains on their homeward way, till every rustling lime-grove, and waving cane-field, is alive with their notes, and every hillock and dell rings with "free" echoes.

The waiting candles, the echoes of many prayers, the blossom of worship filled the tiny chapel.

There were no echoes heard that morning.

Then, with the lightning still flashing athwart the gloom and the thunder rolling in broken echoes all around them, they went down the track past the kopje to find the hut on the sand.

There is something very agreeable in the varied lowing of cattle when heard in the distant country, and when replied to by a large herd, especially toward evening and amid echoes.

"Who is the lady?" "Who is the lady?" echoes the cavaliere.

the marchesa catches up and echoes the words with a horrible jeer.

No soundsave when sudden thunder-pelts wake awful echoes among the great brotherhood of mountain-topswhen torrents burst forth, pouring downward, flooding the narrow garden ledges, and tearing away the patches of corn and vineyard, the people's food.

Children are born, and marriage-flutes wake the echoes of the mountain solitudesand mothers weep, hearing them, remembering their young days and present pinching want.

A bell is rung; it only echoes through the gloomy court.

There came a time when he would gladly have exchanged Carrie's gossip for hers; and through her soft silence, as she sat beside him, he would hear suddenly, in memory, the echoes of her girlish voice, and make a quick movement towards heronly to check himself in shyness or pride.

Then comes the bell rung for closing the inns, breaking the spell with its deep clang, which vibrates far away on the night-air till it has roused all the echoes of the Odenwald.

When, I ask heaven, shall humanity rise to such heights of reason and of religion that war shall be impossible, and stories of battlefields but the saddening echoes of primitive ages of the race?

4570 examples of  echoes  in sentences