Against the precepts of the old men, who had formerly controlled every detail of the village life, there were the opposing teachings of the missionary and the trader, both startling the young with echoes of a wider world than their own.
The correspondence of Madame de Maintenon--eloquent echoesfrom Marly and Versailles--openly reveals that policy.
The echoes of my own footsteps along the corridors made me pause and look round.
We have forgotten thy lessons which our fathers knew, and we have lost the meaning of thy words, the last faint echoes of ancient wisdom!
The time is no more when the hunt of Conde swept by with its proud riders, and the forest-echoes rang with answering horns!
These simple words aroused in me an entirely new train of thought, stirring long-forgotten memories of provincial days, faint echoes of the artless joys of youth.
And those creatures who are for a time mere echoes of another's note are not unlike the fable of the thin sick man whose distorted shadow, dressed like a real creature, came to the old master to make him follow as a shadow.
Thus with a compassion for all echoes in human guise, I greet the solemn-faced "native preacher" whom I find awaiting me.
I never shall see: The echoes of Thames shall my sorrows proclaim, There promised a lover to come—but, ah me!
Oh," with a low sigh that seems to bear away on its slow wings the last echoes of her late mirth, "if it could only last!
Amelia not well," echoes he, in a tone of incredulity.
She echoes his false mirth with no inferior exasperation.
Cunningham, Begg, and Candlish by turns whipping up the wornout Rosenante, and making the rider believe that windmills are Church principles, and the echoes of their thunder solid argument.
I hated the long stone corridors whose echoes seemed to me to mock my hesitating footsteps when I passed from one dull class to another.
But the empty theatre gave him nothing but echoes in reply.
Echoes multiplied the sound until the air was full of hollow mutterings, like the smothered reports of very distant guns.
If there had been any doubt about that the echoes would have convinced him.
Echoes answered her from within, repeating her shout and repeating it till the cries seemed to come from far off, from the very centre of the island.
We cannot know now who was the unfortunate that invited the storm, but in the next letter we get the echoes of it and realize something of its damage.
Then came comparative quiet, as theechoes of the thunder died away amid the mountain peaks.
That was a bad one," cried Mr. Damon, shouting so as to be heard above the echoes of the thunderclap.
The mother, almost frantic, called for Lucy, and nothing but the echoes gave answer.
Only in vision rumbled by A creaking coach with driver high, Who cracked his whip, and rang his cheers-- Echoes they were of other years.
His tread rang along the deserted gallery, and sudden echoes came tramping down the vacant halls as if many a denizen of the once populous place was once more astir within its walls.
Cove, a cock crows, a horn is wound, far, far away; it echoes faintly.
The night-bound wilderness itself was not more daunting than these solitary tiers of piazzas, these vacant series of rooms and corridors, all instinct with vanished human presence, all alert with echoes of human voices.
There were loud, excited calls, unintelligible, mouthing back in the turbulent echoes of the place, the repeated word "Surrender!
As he spoke Jack had gone down upon one knee, and sent a bullet after the fast-receding pair, the echoesof the rifle report mingling with the hoarse snorting bellow of the rhinoceros.
The result was a sharp crack, that seemed to echo into distance far away, and mingled with the echoes there was a furious grunting roar.
Meanwhile, half a dozen rifles were flashing red in the night, and the woodland echoes tossed the reports from thicket to thicket.
And he continued to yell with whole-hearted despair; he woke the echoes with his shrieks.
Still as death she was: and during that dreadful stillness, when she hushed her breath that she might listen, occurred an incident of killing fear, that to her dying day would never cease to renew its echoes in her ear.
And thus a new set of judges, that might usefully have modified the narrow views of the old ones, fall by mere inertia into the humble character of echoes and sounding-boards to swell the uproar of the original mob.
There was a yell of exultation from the upward-climbing Eastern cave men as they saw the most dangerous of their immediate enemies go down, but, before the echoeshad come back, the sound was lost in that which came from the height above them.
But the echoes and the shadows were nothing as compared with the things which came to one at night.
Every time we rolled, each board rubbed against its neighbor and waked the echoes of the cabin.
Anossoff, Chase, and half a dozen others assembled to see us off, and after waking the echoes and watchmen on the pier, we secured a skiff and reached the Ingodah.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "echoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
