Roaring

Examples

• When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Do you tell me that that angel, is to be tied to Roaring Jack Woodley for life? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Houses, gates, churches, haystacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Would you object to turn aside into this place--I think it is called Clifford's Inn--where we can hear one another better than in the roaring street? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Thus they emerged upon the Iron Bridge, which was as quiet after the roaring streets as though it had been open country. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At last, he couldn't help shutting 'em, to ease 'em a minute; and the very moment he did so, he hears Chickweed a-roaring out, Here he is! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• In cold weather, when there is a roaring fire in the range, the water frequently becomes so hot that it steams out of open faucets. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And as to roaring myself red and that kind of thing--these men never understand what is good satire. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• True, holy father, said the knight; but the devil is apt to keep an eye on such exceptions; he goes about, thou knowest, like a roaring lion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It was as though you had thrown a stone and the stone made a ripple and the ripple returned roaring and toppling as a tidal wave. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• All was silence and darkness: the roaring, rushing crowd all vanished and gone--the damps, as well as the incipient fire, extinct and forgotten. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The Greeks never loved Nature in her grandest moods, and—saving ?schylus—both shaggy mountain and roaring waters were alien to their genius. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Roaring and shrieking the apes dashed toward Kulonga, but that wary savage was fleeing down the trail like a frightened antelope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Breathlessly the tribe watched from their lofty perches as Kerchak, still roaring, charged the relatively puny figure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Ever so fur she run, and there was fire afore her eyes, and roarings in her ears. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• September 19th, the ice began to move, and roarings like thunder were heard at a distance, as the islands split and cracked in every direction. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Our approach to Dover was announced by the loud roarings of the wintry sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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