Though the arts of peace were unknown to this fatal region, its forests were alive with men; its shades and glens rang with the sounds of martial music, and the
echoes of its mountains threw back the laugh, or repeated the wanton cry, of many a gallant and reckless youth, as he hurried by them, in the noontide of his spirits, to slumber in a long night of forgetfulness.
The final
echoes of Alice Pyncheon's performance (or Clifford's, if his we must consider it) were driven away by no less vulgar a dissonance than the ringing of the shop-bell.
Dimmesdale's outcry, and interpreted it, with its multitudinous
echoes and reverberations, as the clamour of the fiends and night-hags, with whom she was well known to make excursions in the forest.
I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry
echoes.
While his one live leg made lively
echoes along the deck, every stroke of his dead limb sounded like a coffin-tap.
Quite apart from her own troubles she was boiling over with a general sense of the injustice of it, and she told what she thought of the packers, and what she thought of a world where such things were allowed to happen; and then, while the
echoes of the hall rang with the shock of her terrible voice, she sat down again and fanned herself, and the meeting gathered itself together and proceeded to discuss the election of a recording secretary.
The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown; and the voices and shadowy movings which come to her from out the cloudy pillar of inspiration have each one
echoes and answers in her own expecting nature.
The queen's guards fell into line, and she and they marched away, with their torch-bearers, and woke the
echoes of the cavernous tunnels with the measured beat of their retreating footfalls.
A very cold BZZZZZZZZEEE accompanied the storm, and made our position far from pleasant; and presently came a flash of BLITZEN, apparently in the middle of our little party, with an instantaneous clap of YOKKY, sounding like a large gun fired close to our ears; the effect was startling; but in a few seconds our attention was fixed by the roaring
echoes of the thunder against the tremendous mountains which completely surrounded us.
He sat down by her and put his arms around her; she buried her face in his bosom, she clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far
echoes turned them all to jeering laughter.
It was a cool spot, staid but cheerful, a wonderful place for
echoes, and a very harbour from the raging streets.
Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of
echoes of its own.
