The air was full of intonations and cadences; not of the echo of smashing blows, of riven armor, of howling victims and roaring beasts.
It is the echo of an earlier tune, - an echowith a beauti- ful cadence.
Hawthorne's Puritanism finds no echo in these modern souls, all sceptical, wavering and unblessed.
He rings and rings, but only the black cliffs echo back the hollow sound of the bell.
This remark seems an echo of the words of the old Hebrew poet: "For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.
Change finds no likeness of itself in Thee, And makes no echo in Thy mute eternity.
The student of Philosophy, of course, at once thinks of Heraclitus; but Bergson is not merely another Heraclitus any more than he is just an echo of Jacobi.
The rigidity of the bodice at the commencement of the Hanoverian period was an echo of an earlier time, when Good Queen Bess strutted it in wheeled farthingale.
As previously hinted, the crinoletta was only a faint echo of the glories of its earlier prototype.
Lonely lived the lady, lonely: Riches grew, and brought her all Save the loving words whose echo Seemed to linger in his hall.
Once more of late her joy was mine, Once more for her my flames could shine, My thunder echo clear.
The cliffs and the pines only echo The laugh of a sunnier clime.
This was a task well suited to our tastes and abilities; so we loaded up as quickly as we could and pointed our weapons at the brilliant stars in the heavens, whilst the echo of that piercing cry died away in the distance.
And then think of me, poor little me, deserted and forgotten, a tiny fragment sunk so deep and helplessly between the sheer granite walls of my environment that scarce an echo reaches me of the thunder among the mountains above.
I can only echo Whistler's remark one day as he stood before an execrably bad drawing "God bless my soul"--uttered slowly and thoughtfully and then repeated.
The thought of it makes me sick--that any one should believe I imbibe his ideas, echo his conceits, and even ape his gestures and manner of voice.
In this extremity she asked the advice of her mysterious "voices," and these were now more than ever the echo of her excellent judgment, of her patriotism and of her military genius.
The insidious words found an echo in the perverse spirits of several of the captains.
All will be dancing and jollity; plays will be performed; the villages will re-echo with the report of fire-arms and the clamor of drums; and the whole population will hold a feast of bullocks.
It may be well for the fallen commander to be buried at his post, and sleep where the reveille and roll-call may be heard, and the tramp of his fellow-soldiers echo and re-echo over him.
Upon this, his highness net up such another screech of mirth that it quite woke an echo through the room; and all Sir Norman's friends looked grave; for when his highness laughed, it was a very bad sign.
But no Sir Norman Kingsley obeyed the pleasant invitation, and a dull echofrom the darkness alone answered him.
They sleep in the darkest cells of tired hearts and busy brains, to be startled at rarest moments only by the echo of some voices that recalls their past.
The Twilight of the Gods" is an echo of "The Burden of Nineveh.
Where I've listen'd whole hours to the echo that made So much of a laugh or--Halló.
From my basket at noon they expect their supply, And with joy from my threshold I spring; For the woodlands I love, and the oaks waring high, And Echo that sings as I sing.
And finally, as I could but echo her again: "She made love to him.
Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a peep at the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the echo in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled view from his forehead.
To Liana he brought the echo of that beloved voice, which had once said to her heaven: "Let it be!
As the echo is always of more syllables the farther off our call starts, so must the soul from which we desire a fairer echo not be too near ours; and hence the nearness of souls increases with the distance of bodies.
Footnote 24: The couplet was different in the early editions: Echo no more the rural song rebounds; Her name alone the mournful echo sounds.
The Horse, adorned with his great war-saddle, and champing his foaming bridle, came thundering along the way, and made the mountains echo with his loud shrill neighing.
When the last echo of the cry had passed away the Voice continued to speak.
Echo was in love with Narcissus, and died of grief because he would not return her love.
The tourists go up half a mile into Rubio Canyon, to the engineering miracle, the triangular car that hoists them out of the hungry chasm thirty-five hundred feet up the side of a granite cliff, to the top of Echo Mountain.
Here they find thatEcho Mountain is but a shelf on the side of Mount Lowe.
Amen," mumbled father as if from the depths of embarrassment, and against my will, as it were, a queer sort of a croon of an echo came from my own throat.
I can't, I just can't dedicate the chapel until you echo my ceremony in your heart," he answered me with his eyes still turned away from me and looking with the greatest sadness out on Paradise Ridge.
You said 'yes' then and it has taken all these years to make her echo the word," and as he finished speaking he held out his arm and drew me close to father and himself.
The question where is, or was, Brunanburh is still sounding in the ear of the historical student, and echo merely answers "Where?
Indeed, it sounds more like a Scandinavian than a Saxon story, an echo of which has reached us in the tale of King Estmere, who adopted a similar disguise.
Then clean and strong the ring of a gun, and a dull echo in the dim cavern!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "echo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
