"Sounding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to write. After a short, but superior and assured preamble, I introduced the high-sounding words of Schweigaard, 'One might thus certainly assume,' etc., and hurried down the left page, with unabated vigour down the right, reached the monkey, dashed past him, began to grope and fumble, and then I found I could not write a ...
— Norse Tales and Sketches • Alexander Lange Kielland
... clove the waters by. Came eager-eyed Even shy Na-i'a-des from inland streams, With wild cries headlong darting through the waves; And Dryads from the shore stretched their long arms, While, hoarsely sounding, heard was Triton's shell; Shoutings uncouth, bewildered sounds, And innumerable splashing feet Of monsters gambolling around their god, Forth shining on a sea-horse, fierce and finned. Some bestrode fishes glinting dusky gold, Or angry crimson, or chill silver bright; Others jerked fast on ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson
... Friedrich's chief Correspondent. Of D'Alembert to the King, it may be or may not, some opportunity will rise for a specimen; meanwhile here is a short Letter of the King's to D'Alembert, through which there pass so many threads of contemporaneous flying events (swift shuttles on the loud-sounding Loom of Time), that we are tempted to give this, before the ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle
... I must do anything I'm asked," she said, in distress, the tears welling to her eyes. And a merciless bell mercifully sounding from an upper room, ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... virtue stays the mighty mountains, power. Girded with power, with strength abounding. The roaring dam of watery fountains the "dam of fountains" Thy beck doth make surcease her sounding. [is the ocean. When stormy uproars toss the people's brain, That civil sea to calm thou bring'st again. ...
— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald
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