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Deep in them we can hear subterranean rivers rushing off through the netherworld, and our voices echo and reecho through the halls.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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The woods reecho with their wild screams and the weird ululations of the battle cry.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.
It was a load that would echo and reecho in the hills.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison
A fruitless struggle ensued, and at length, seeming to accommodate himself to circumstances, he set off at a sharp trot, his guards making the air reecho with their merry shouts.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Oh, may the humble followers of the lowly Nazarene echo and reecho this invitation of love among the haunts of men as long as time shall last!
From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert
Shame, say I; and I am certain every one of your hearts, Gentlemen of the Jury, reechoes my indignant feeling!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 by Various
His voice was like thunder, with reechoes for accents.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy
He reechoes Chaucer's picture of the village parson who "did as well as taught."
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
The choir reechoes it each time, singing it in contrapunto, and then chants the verse Confitemini, and the tract, which is ordinarily recited in penitential times.
From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Baggs, Charles Michael
Every name commemorates a mystery,—every grotto announces a prediction,—every hill reechoes the accents of a prophet.
From Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Russell, Michael
Kanu’s trial reechoed allegations of marginalization in Nigeria’s southeast region made up of the Igbos, Nigeria’s third-largest ethnic group who are mainly Christians.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Flowers rained down and shouts of "bravo" reechoed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As he spoke, his voice echoed and re-echoed and reechoed again, mixing its sound with the buzz of activity all around them.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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And Morris's heart had reechoed the sentiment again and again, especially when Harry was taken to one of the Washington hospitals and wrote glowingly of the president's visits to the sick and wounded soldiers.
From The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country by Levinger, Elma Ehrlich
"Cain, Cain," reechoed the tiles on the roofs.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
From a fireside circle on a hilltop, owners get a vicarious thrill recognizing the voices of their beloved hounds echoing and reechoing, as they cry the fox in the dark distance.
From Time Magazine Archive
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One of the stories reechoing through the Scripps-Howard city rooms was of the time when Howard was among the guests of honor at a Washington dinner for successful ex-Indianans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A false ring somewhere in Ernest's words, reechoing with an ever-increasing volume of sound, stifled the voice of love.
From The House of the Vampire by Viereck, George Sylvester
They heard echoing and reechoing from every newspaper and pulpit:
From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas
And then the laughter was repeated loudly, rising and reechoing from different thickets.
From The Black Arrow by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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