Echoes

Examples

• Now, come and take your place in the circle, and let us sit quiet, and hear the echoes about which you have your theory. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He was overjoyed at seeing me, and to know the meaning of the fight, faint echoes of which had reached his prison cell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• At this point a voice echoes down the centuries to us. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Morning was breaking over the cheerful house-tops of Chancery Lane as the rattling cab woke up the echoes there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She had not felt so stunned--so impressed as she did now, when echoes of Mr. Thornton's voice yet lingered about the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Her father was not a coherent human being, he was a roomful of old echoes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus, the rustling of an Angel's wings got blended with the other echoes, and they were not wholly of earth, but had in them that breath of Heaven. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Or, if I were to say rather that I listened to the echoes of those thoughts, I should better express the truth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But, there were other echoes, from a distance, that rumbled menacingly in the corner all through this space of time. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Oh, I track the fairest fair Through new haunts of pleasure; Footprints here and echoes there Guide me to my treasure: Lo! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then, among the advancing echoes, there was the tread of her tiny feet and the sound of her prattling words. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was a cool spot, staid but cheerful, a wonderful place for echoes, and a very harbour from the raging streets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I hear the croaking of frogs, faint and far off, and the echoes of the great clock hum in the airless calm long after the strokes have ceased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Some halls are so large that the reflected sounds cause a confusion of echoes, but this difficulty can be lessened by hanging draperies, which break the reflection. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• For, there was something coming in the echoes, something light, afar off, and scarcely audible yet, that stirred her heart too much. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Simultaneously with this discovery on her part, her father discovered her, and invoked the echoes of Mincing Lane to exclaim 'My gracious me! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What fine hidden sensibilities are touched in such a case, no echoes tell; but it is so, and it was so here. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Above we could hear the faint echoes of a great tumult. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Woods, rocks and mountains produce natural echoes in every variety, for which particular localities have become famous. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They could find no praise warm enough for the man who had organized the echoes and tamed the lightning, and whose career was so picturesque with eventful and romantic development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Echoes rarely answered to the actual tread of Sydney Carton. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• This Baptistery is endowed with the most pleasing echo of all the echoes we have read of. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Many a night and many a day had its inmates listened to the echoes in the corner, with hearts that failed them when they heard the thronging feet. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Now, that the streets were quiet, and the night wore on, the words were in the echoes of his feet, and were in the air. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Maddening church bells of all degrees of dissonance, sharp and flat, cracked and clear, fast and slow, made the brick-and-mortar echoes hideous. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Echoes from those past times when they had exchanged tender words all the day long came like the diffused murmur of a seashore left miles behind. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And one other thing regarding him was whispered in the echoes, which has been whispered by all true echoes for ages and ages. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Her mockery quivered through his muscles with curious re-echoes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These phrases of a dying man were so complete and natural, coming like echoes through his dead mouth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typed by Agatha