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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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Its hills reecho twenty-one guns in salvo from Sloat's squadron.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard
The tiny monosyllable seemed to echo and reecho through the high-ceiled room.
From Little Lost Sister by Brooks, Virginia
How charming did these voices reecho through the room!
From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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.
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 Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
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
Harmony reechoes harmony; and with this glorious ode of jubilation the act comes to an end.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
He reechoes Chaucer's picture of the village parson who "did as well as taught."
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
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
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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"Cain, Cain," reechoed the tiles on the roofs.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
And then the young woman found herself the darling of all the soldiers in the army, for word of her actions ran like wildfire through the ranks and cheers reechoed wherever she went.
From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Edwards, Clayton
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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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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"Why, you charming creature!" exclaimed Winnie, "I can't help comparing you to a fairy, preparing for a camp-meeting!" and her wild laugh was heard reechoing from hall to hall, Natalie smiling at her ludicrous comparison.
From Natalie A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Vale, Ferna
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 Miller, Francis Trevelyan
Confined between the walls of gorge and cañon, each report of the heavy revolver crashed out above the tumult of the river and ran echoing and reechoing up the stupendous precipices.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George
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