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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
He tells him to take it to Kilauea--that it may reecho, doubtless, from the walls of the crater.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
Did the heavenly host descend in rapture, and cause the mountains of Judea to reecho with their acclamations, because a dependent creature had consented to do his Maker's will?
From The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. by Austin Dickinson
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 John M. Garvan
"I am sure I can echo and reecho your words," he answered, folding the child to his heart.
From Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley
Harmony reechoes harmony; and with this glorious ode of jubilation the act comes to an end.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
His voice was like thunder, with reechoes for accents.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
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 Michael Russell
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
This song reechoes in my soul like a melancholy foreboding, and clings to its wings as if it wanted to paralyze their flight.
From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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
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
With a triumphant yell that echoed and reechoed through the gorge, he sprang to his feet.
From Hidden Gold by Wilder Anthony
The whole way reechoed with the sound of trumpets, clarions, and other musical instruments.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
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
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
Seemingly in response, the reechoing sound that had previously so startled the girls rang faintly through the cavern.
From Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Annie Roe Carr
From the Yser Canal down to the end of the French line the Allies' guns took up the note, and soon the whole of the allied line was thundering and reechoing with the infernal racket.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller
“Pull on the rope, Crispin, pull!” cried the elder to his little brother, who did as he was told, so that from above was heard a faint peal, instantly drowned out by the reechoing thunder.
From The Social Cancer by Charles E. Derbyshire
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