Von Kircheisen answered their pleadings with a loud-sounding laugh.

They put me in mind of several Persons mentioned in the Battles of Heroic Poems, who have sounding Names given them, for no other Reason but that they may be killed, and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the Head.

I must in the next place observe, that when our Thoughts are great and just, they are often obscured by the sounding Phrases, hard Metaphors, and forced Expressions in which they are cloathed.

Thus the sounding of the Clock in 'Venice Preserved', makes the Hearts of the whole Audience quake; and conveys a stronger Terror to the Mind than it is possible for Words to do.

" Again the merry notes went sounding far and wide.

On returning on board, Mr. Hill, who had been away sounding, reported a clear channel to the westward.

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, 80 Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

me, the sense confounding, Both here and there are opposite voices sounding.

All that I could have replied Has been said thus suddenly By this voice that, sounding near, Strikes upon my startled ear Like the summons of my death.

Another moment and the machine was sounding its wild fusillade; the Italian sped away in the same direction as the Maillard, his battered soft hat set jauntily upon the back of his head, his gay-colored neckkerchief streaming in the wind.

This said, his feeble arm a jav'lin flung, Which on the sounding shield, scarce ent'ring, rung.

It swept away my self-possession like the blast of a trumpet sounding a charge.

And Des Esseintes, gazing at one of the folios opened on his chapel desk, smiled at the thought that the moment would soon come when an erudite scholar would prepare for the decadence of the French language a glossary similar to that in which the savant, Du Cange, has noted the last murmurings, the last spasms, the last flashes of the Latin language dying of old age in the cloisters and sounding its death rattle.

The large and necessary importation of foreign words into the English language has undoubtedly weakened its ancient word-making powers; and while all fantastic and awkward inventions and ill-sounding compounds should be avoided, it seems desirable to give at least a fair chance to words formed out of English material.

These explanations were then necessary to clear that question of questions"Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee?"a question to be finally settled only at the sounding of the last Apocalyptic trumpet.

There sometimes doth a leaping fish 25 Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, [C] In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comesthe cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; 30 And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.

The ASTROLOGER was not unseen 180 By solitary Benjamin; But total darkness came anon, And he and every thing was gone: And suddenly a ruffling breeze, (That would have rocked the sounding trees 185 Had aught of sylvan growth been there) Swept through the Hollow long and bare:

It wuz a pretty place: the lofty mountain side with cow bells tinkling along the winding roads, the cool pretty villages below, chimes sounding from high towers, the peasants singing their national songs, the bands ringing out their stirring melodies.

He felt sure that the alarm sounding from St. James had drawn away the guards and that there would be nothing to interfere with his plan.

With thy clear voice sounding 5 Through the silver twilight, What is the lost secret Of the tacit earth?

15 Ah, when the hyacinth Wakens with spring, And buds the laurel, Doubt not, some morning When all earth revives, 20 Hearing Pan's flute-call Over the river-beds, Over the hills, Sounding the summons, I shall look up and behold 25 In the door, Smiling, expectant, Loving as ever

The English pronunciation of the letters of timbre is forbidden by its homophonea French girl collecting postage-stamps in England explained that she collected timberposts, whereas our English form of the French sound of the word would be approximately tamber; and this would be not only a good English-sounding word like amber and clamber, but would be like our tambour, which is tympanum, which again IS timbre.

I have elsewhere advocated the sounding of the initial p in learned (not in popular) words beginning with ps; and many other similar reforms might with advantage be adopted.

Then he turned to the Morning Post which was on a low stand near, and he read again a paragraph which had pleased him at breakfast: "The Duke of Glastonbury and Lady Ethelrida Montfitchet entertained at dinner last night a small party at Glastonbury House, among the guests being" and here he skipped some high-sounding titles and let his eye feast upon his own name, "Mr. Francis Markrute.

Vast and deep-sounding as is the orchestra of words, there are scores which we never fling upon such instrumentsrealities that lie outside the possibility and the desirability of utterance as there are rays of the sun that fall outside the visible spectrum of solar light.