Shouts

Examples

• The room rang with shouts of laughter. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The party of horsemen came up to the fence, and, with mingled shouts and oaths, were dismounting, to prepare to follow them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Such were the shouts which followed the stroke; and at the conclusion of which All-Muggleton had scored two. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The hour mark was passed, and there were wild shouts of applause and encouragement. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The crowd accompanied him with cries of triumph and shouts of Hosanna, a word of rejoicing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Women and children shrieked, and men encouraged each other with noisy shouts and cheers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Two choice regiments, recently arrived from Lombardy, led the onset, rending the air with their shouts and confident of an easy victory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He felt as if he had had dirt cast on him amidst shouts of scorn. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Nor was he mistaken, for it quickly passed from mouth to mouth, and in a few seconds the air teemed with shouts of 'Weller! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• No sooner was Rowena seated, than a burst of music, half-drowned by the shouts of the multitude, greeted her new dignity. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• His laugh, in fact, is sometimes almost aboriginal; slapping his hands delightedly on his knees, he rocks back and forth and fairly shouts his pleasure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A breathless pause—then shouts to heaven go In token of the victory hardly won. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I had not found thee, Wilfred, said the Black Knight, who at that instant entered the apartment, but for thy shouts. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If one shouts in a forest, the sound is sometimes heard a second time a second or two later. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• She was awakened by loud shouts and outcries, the tramp of horses' feet, and the baying of dogs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The shouts grew louder as new voices swelled the roar, and he could hear the cry of Fire! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The music died away, the shouts abruptly ended; the soldiers had cleared a space in which a carriage was drawn up. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Nay, there seemed to be two or more shouts raised together,--if one might judge from a confusion in the sound. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Soon we heard their disorderly clamour, the barbarian shouts, the untimed step of thousands coming on in disarray. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Shouts from a thousand voices now rent the air--the cry of applause became universal. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I went into the open fields where none could hear me, and laughed till the air resounded with my shouts! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The only sounds heard were the shouts of Captain Claxton, as he gave directions to 'let go ropes,' to 'haul in faster,' &c. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The shouts of both parties augmented the fearful din, the assailants crying, Saint George for merry England! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The spectators seemed spellbound, for no shouts or exclamations were heard, as all watched anxiously the silent course of the heavily freighted pontoons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He too heard the shouts of 'Missus,' and stopped to hear more. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Still the current poured on to find some nook or hole from which to vent their shouts, and only for an instant see the wretch. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

Edited by Joanne