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From the clock tower of the Gathering Hall came a deep reverberating bong.
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reverberating = with continuing sound vibrations
- He blamed himself for the accident, then kept on blaming himself for every decision that was made thereafter, every repercussion, every reverberation that clanged down through the years.† (source)
- As words from the Koran reverberated through the room, I thought of the old story of Baba wrestling a black bear in Baluchistan.† (source)
- His avatar was still wearing a mic, so his words blasted over the club's speaker array, reverberating like the voice of God.† (source)
- She holds the wrong note in her mind, and even as she continues playing, that note reverberates within her, growing to a crescendo, stealing her focus until she slips again, into a second wrong note, and then, two minutes later, blows an entire chord.† (source)
- As the last gong of the bell reverberated across the compound, I swooped up my pencils and notebook and ran inside.† (source)
- They ache like history: things long done with, that still reverberate as pain.† (source)
- The question began to reverberate in their minds, a metaphysical conundrum.† (source)
- Someone had set up a stereo, and music began reverberating through the tunnel.† (source)
- One after another the trees fell, each crash reverberating off the walls of the castle.† (source)
- The gunshots reverberate around them.† (source)
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- The metal door banged loudly behind him and reverberated through the small space.† (source)
- I felt my body reverberate with it.† (source)
- Langdon could hear his own footsteps reverberating off the glass overhead.† (source)
- Dark figures were blundering through the trees; children were crying; anxious shouts and panicked voices were reverberating around them in the cold night air.† (source)
- But before the girls arrive, news of his acceptance has reverberated through the block.† (source)
- The square reverberated with blaring music and the shrill chatter of a hundred wedding guests milling about.† (source)
- Again Mrs Which's voice reverberated through the cave.† (source)
- The individual act has reverberations that can be nearly endless.† (source)
- "Which queen were you?" she said aloud, her voice reverberating through the still chamber.† (source)
- The sound of skin against metal reverberates in the hallway and straight into my stomach.† (source)
- I made my way haltingly past the members of the choir with their black robes flapping in the morning breeze, the doctor's words reverberating around me.† (source)
- That's when a metallic, sharp tone reverberates through the space, much like the one at the beginning of the First Friday Feats.† (source)
- Each act of child abuse reverberates into the future; when a child gets hurt, we may all suffer the consequences.† (source)
- Before Chiron could say anything, footsteps reverberated on the porch outside.† (source)
- How flagrantly, sensually, it reverberated before the altar when she said, "With my body I thee worship."† (source)
- The song reverberated until Holly, for a final time, passed the tune over, and Mrs. Utemeyer, quiet, upright, historical, finished with a jig.† (source)
- The nothingth of a second for which the hole existed reverberated backward and forward through time in a most improbable fashion.† (source)
- In the morning the ghetto reverberated with sounds of the Aktion, the roundup: gunshots, shouts in German, doors banging, and heavy boots on the stairs.† (source)
- The news reverberates around the room.† (source)
- WHEN WE TI R NED IN To the garage and got out of the car everyone was still high and laughing and recounting bits and pieces of the ambush in multiple languages—everyone except me, blank and echoing with shock, fast cuts and sudden movements still reverberating from the dark at me and too stunned to speak a word.† (source)
- So when Adam's voice reverberates from the hallway outside the ICU, it really wakes everyone up.† (source)
- I lie there trying to catch my breath, but each inhalation brings about a pain in my lungs that reverberates throughout my body.† (source)
- His voice reverberated through the room.† (source)
- The sound of the motor is louder now, as if magnified, as if the road is a tunnel with invisible walls and the thunder of the motor reverberates against those walls, increasing the decibels.† (source)
- He had begun to purr when Redd's voice reverberated through the hall.† (source)
- Even with the guard's snores reverberating through the door, she couldn't ignore it.† (source)
- Every now and then the air reverberated with gritos, the Mexican yell of a man who's drunk and angry, reaching as deep as he can to shout all his pain and glory to the world.† (source)
- The ship pitched again then, metal reverberating to a succession of blows, and Kassad was thrown against the wall of the boom-arm shaft.† (source)
- Still, that expected meaning keeps hanging around, and since we experience this phantom meaning as an echo at the same time as the newly created, dominant meaning, all sorts of reverberations can be set off.† (source)
- And the flat, whacking sound of the mallet against flesh had been replaced with a hollow booming sound, echoing and reverberating.† (source)
- Rumors about a big event reverberated throughout the school.† (source)
- I heard her question again clearly, as though it had been floating in the air like the reverberation of a bell ....and felt my heart pounding.† (source)
- But that's exactly—" A long clanging reverberation interrupted him.† (source)
- Sharp crunches and crackings reverberated off the cliff face whenever someone slipped in their formation.† (source)
- Kamarov pulled the diving alarm, and the hull reverberated with the racket of a loud buzzer.† (source)
- Suddenly, they've been nailed with a spotlight so big and powerful they can't look anywhere near it Then it's dark again, and a gunshot from Vie's rifle is seating and reverberating across the water.† (source)
- Even then, with her hands sunk in the dough or her apron bloody from the chicken to be served at lunch, she struck him as a sort of ghost in the reverberation of the day.† (source)
- Later that evening she asked him to tell her more adventure stories about early sailors, and she stroked his hair as the sound of his voice reverberated against the interior of the hull.† (source)
- Then she went to the candy sellers sitting behind their big round jars and she bought six of each kind, pointing at the glass because she could not make herself heard over all the shouting: six angel hair, six tinned milk, six sesame seed bars, six cassava pastries, six chocolate bars, six blancmanges, six tidbits of the queen, six of this and six of that, six of everything, and she tossed them into the maid's baskets with an irresistible grace and a complete detachment from the stormclouds of flies on the syrup, from the continual hullabaloo and the vapor of rancid sweat that reverberated in the deadly heat.† (source)
- The sharp, reverberating hoofbeats that moments ago had mixed into the surging sound of the river were now a crescendo upon me.† (source)
- His voice boomed out across the uplifted faces, reverberating with the force given it by the acoustical horn behind the ledge.† (source)
- I'm within three strokes of the wall when my head pops out of the water like a marker buoy and a reverberation erupts out of me that would normally bring paramedics.† (source)
- The grandfather clock in the hall ticked on the hour, and eight loud dongs reverberated through the silence.† (source)
- Officer Teague's questions still reverberated in his ears.† (source)
- With a mighty burst of fire and smoke, Auk XXIII tore off the pad and streaked out of sight, a deep thunder reverberating from mountain to mountain and echoing up the valley.† (source)
- Any shadow, at the entrance, might stir reverberations the colour of fright, unravel deep-buried moons.† (source)
- The helicopter hung there for a while above the river, taking in the scene, then dipped its nose and lifted up over the woods, filling the valley with the deep, reverberating thud of its blades.† (source)
- The sound of his exhaust reverberates heavily through the midnight streets.† (source)
- She turned from him as they heard the sound of the closing elevator door reverberate down the shaft.† (source)
- He laughs, a cackling sound reverberating in my ears.† (source)
- She swiped them aside, and they clattered to the floor, the sound reverberating off the walls.† (source)
- He said that over and over, his voice echoing and reverberating as his rage increased.† (source)
- I knew that across town something bigger than the mega-tsunami had hit and was already reverberating, sending Shockwaves that would eventually ripple out to meet me.† (source)
- As a trustworthy white peer-Cedric's first-Zayd is a sounding board for questions and comments that Cedric has harbored for years, notions about white America that reverberate endlessly in the echo chamber of Southeast.† (source)
- The echo seemed to reverberate through the vessel for a solid minute.† (source)
- I knock over a cymbal stand, and the brass hits the stage with an earsplitting crash that reverberates through the bowling alley.† (source)
- And sometimes I sat with her through the mass, the mass in English, what a stark thing it was, without murmur or reverberation, but still the best part of my week, and I took her arm and led her out of the church and she was not a small woman but seemed to be dwindling, passing episodically out of flesh—she felt like rice paper under my hand.† (source)
- Because he had never officially gotten into the squadron, he could never officially be gotten out, and Sergeant Towser sensed that the multiplying communications relating to the poor man would continue reverberating forever.† (source)
- My voice seems to reverberate across the valley.† (source)
- His whole body reverberated with the news.† (source)
- It vibrated like a harp string, issuing a single musical note that reverberated throughout the gallery before fading to silence.† (source)
- The question reverberates in my ears.† (source)
- I heard Jenks's cry reverberating off the stone.† (source)
- ....The continent is a kind of whispering gallery and acts and speeches are reverberated around from New York in all directions.† (source)
- Gradually, the gonglike reverberations in her head subsided, and her ears stopped ringing.† (source)
- A scandal that starts here and reverberates to East Washington will come back on us like a monsoon.† (source)
- His tune reached into each chamber of Tom's heart and reverberated with truth.† (source)
- Their tremendous roar, and the concussion of exploding rockets, reverberated among the close-by Marines.† (source)
- Music, heavy with bass, poured out from inside the club, reverberating through Vlad's chest in a strangely familiar way, even though he didn't recognize the tune at all.† (source)
- Night has fallen, and outside the cave, thunder reverberates.† (source)
- For a few seconds, the guards stood still, as if the reverberation from the gunshot had locked their joints in place.† (source)
- A moment later he let out a reverberating belch, and ten or so bees flew out of his mouth.† (source)
- Then Barbee's voice began again, disembodied now, and it was as though he had never paused, as though his words, reverberating within us, had continued their rhythmic flow though their source was for a moment stilled: "Oh, yes, my young friends, oh, yes," he continued with a great sadness.† (source)
- The events of that day reverberated in every town and township of South Africa.† (source)
- Quit, she thought again, and the word reverberated in her brain.† (source)
- The bloodied, lifeless figure below had spoken his last words, and they were words that reverberated like kettledrums in the ears of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.† (source)
- Her head reverberated with the clapping palm.† (source)
- As Jess climbed, she could hear the rumbling breath of the giant panther behind her reverberating between the two houses.† (source)
- He had lain under his bed, covering his ears with his hands, but he could not shut out the noise that was reverberating down the tall narrow hallways outside.† (source)
- Instant thunder rattled their skulls and reverberated out toward other mountain ranges for a minute or more.† (source)
- Most days, the sound of a bass drum reverberated off the terrazzo hallway tiles and a techno song vibrated the air.† (source)
- She spoke in a low voice, yet every word was bell-note clear and seemed to reverberate through Joe until he gradually began to tremble with the cumulative vibrations.† (source)
- Everything signified, everything blared and reverberated as though some adjustment was off, some knob turned all the way up.† (source)
- Changes were still reverberating through the body politic over the losses suffered in the Horvath attacks.† (source)
- I call out for them to stop, but against the din of play and constant reverberation along the shore my weak voice thins, and I lose sight of who's who among this brace of kids roughhousing in the water.† (source)
- If it had been a reverberating gong, that sound could not have had more violent effect.† (source)
- My name reverberated off the four barracks walls with an astonishing resonance.† (source)
- It was like walking on the head of a drum: they could hear their reverberations inside the hollow building beneath, and the delighted yelling of the Paranoids.† (source)
- The sound caught in the inlets, tossed from one steep mountain side to another, echoing and reverberating, and receding slowly to echo and re-echo far, far away.† (source)
- They were both silent for a long moment as a car slithered by on the street outside where a light rain was falling and the evening chimes from the distant church dropped nine notes on Brooklyn's vast, reverberant midsummer stillness.† (source)
- Far in the distance he could hear a mighty wind rising, a sound of sighs and wails and shrieks reverberating in the blackness, a babble of languages.† (source)
- It was as if a distorted echo had reverberated round the closed cirde of time, from the future to the past.† (source)
- He began to realize that for some moments now a bell, the school bell, had been weltering on the dark gray air; he realized it because at this moment the last of its reverberations were fading.† (source)
- He kicked his foot backwards on the can and a hollow boom reverberated in the alley.† (source)
- Even in Taft's home bailiwick of Ohio, where his strict constitutionalism had won him immense popularity, the Senator's speech brought anger, confusion and political reverberations.† (source)
- As the jarring echoes of the heavy house-door, closing on its latch, reverberated dismally through the building, Kate felt half tempted to call him back... (source)
- Her advice reverberated in my mind at critical junctures the rest of my life.
- The rusty hinges squealed, and the echoes in the chamber reverberated endlessly.† (source)
- The noise got more and more pronounced with every step, reverberating through the walls.† (source)
- The fibrous shell reverberated like a muted drum.† (source)
- The voice reverberated in my head, as if someone had installed Bose speakers behind my eyes.† (source)
- The gunshot had echoed only for an instant, and yet its effects had reverberated across decades.† (source)
- A sound like thunder reverberates and the ceiling shakes, dropping pieces of stone down on us.† (source)
- The impact sent shockwaves of displaced air reverberating throughout the room.† (source)
- A violent shake that reverberates throughout the entirety of its massive body.† (source)
- A mournful peal reverberated when it struck.† (source)
- Cain began laughing, and she felt the reverberations of his steps as he walked around the ring.† (source)
- His distorted voice reverberated in my mind: Are you prepared to lose your friends?† (source)
- There were rumbling echoes of the initial explosion reverberating through the sea.† (source)
- His voice was booming; every word reverberated with a powerful energy.† (source)
- "I'm not sure why you're talking to that arrow, but—" From our right came a reverberating WHANG!† (source)
- The walls reverberate all the way down into the foundation, then back up.† (source)
- Suddenly a thundering voice reverberated throughout the great hall: "WWEEE ARRE HHERRE!"† (source)
- The reverberation shook the back of the truck as a spent shell clinked onto the cargo floor.† (source)
- Nathan's words reverberated into the silence.† (source)
- He screamed for help, but his cries reverberated in the tight shaft.† (source)
- Simkins and Solomon flanked Langdon now, guiding him blindly down a reverberating corridor.† (source)
- A faint hissing sound reverberated in his ears.† (source)
- A strange rumble reverberated through the hull.† (source)
- !" he demanded, his words reverberating in the enclosed tunnel.† (source)
- Saphira's words reverberated in his head.† (source)
- The words reverberated, shaking the scene apart.† (source)
- Langdon's voice reverberated with excitement.† (source)
- The reverberation circled the colonnade, followed by a sudden torrent of warm air.† (source)
- A squeak rang in his ears and reverberated through his fingers; it came from the stone.† (source)
- "Me," a voice reverberated from the back of the chapel.† (source)
- The faint echo of footfalls and tourist murmurs reverberated around the dome.† (source)
- The sound it made as it dropped reverberated inside the house.† (source)
- The ear-splitting bell reverberated off the glass walls of the small gatehouse.† (source)
- My fist thudded against the front door with angry energy; the sound reverberated through the walls.† (source)
- Ian thumped Jamie on the back-I could feel the motion reverberate through both our bodies.† (source)
- A low rumble of shock reverberates in the small chapel.† (source)
- They but halloo their names to the reverberate hills.† (source)
- If there is chaos here, it reverberates in the upper world.† (source)
- Its pure note reverberated in the room before fading slowly, reluctantly to silence.† (source)
- He laughed above them and the sound crashed around them, reverberating like surf in a filling cave.† (source)
- Whitney's voice didn't rise, but it reverberated with emotion.† (source)
- The last words reverberated through the room with extra echo.† (source)
- His voice seemed to reverberate, loud, unnatural; it sounded like his voice come over a loudspeaker.† (source)
- The cracking sound of bone breaking reverberated through his skull.† (source)
- That click between them had the potential, she knew, to reverberate through the rest of her life.† (source)
- A deep hum reverberated across the island, like a bass amp turned to maximum.† (source)
- The bridge's planks reverberate with the cars passing below.† (source)
- The kettle reverberated with a dull roar as a stream of water struck the bottom.† (source)
- The sounds reverberate in my ears but I don't dare let go to cover them.† (source)
- Moments later, hundreds of voices reverberate around me, filling me crown to toe.† (source)
- The note of sorrow in her voice reverberated strangely in Bellamy's gut.† (source)
- An unbroken roar of huge trucks reverberates from the nearby arterial.† (source)
- The god's voice reverberated through the aquarium's sound system, echoing down the tunnel.† (source)
- Though faint, it shook Alessandros chest and reverberated in his lungs.† (source)
- Clytius's voice reverberated from Leo's mouth.† (source)
- Marie clutched him, her voice reverberating off the white walls.† (source)
- It reverberated like a kettledrum with each footfall.† (source)
- Chrysaor's laughter reverberated inside his gold face mask.† (source)
- The last sensations he had felt from Glaedr still reverberated through his mind:He was alone.† (source)
- The faint thump-thump of it reverberates in my stomach.† (source)
- Every night, the campus of the Institute would reverberate with the lion's roaring.† (source)
- The Corps greeted them with a volley of boos and hisses that reverberated across the campus.† (source)
- It came from somewhere across the Boston Common, reverberating off the high-rises, turning my blood to Freon.† (source)
- As the music reverberated upon the air, unbidden, unwelcome thoughts slunk into Harry's mind...Had they taken Dumbledore's body from the foot of the tower yet?† (source)
- The words seemed to reverberate in the air after he had said them, sounding slightly ridiculous, even comic.† (source)
- They went on board a riverboat, the wooden wheel of which had a sound of conflagration, and whose rusted metal plates reverberated like the mouth of an oven.† (source)
- There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.† (source)
- "Listen to me," the woman raved, "I know all about you and ....those motorcycles, making all that reverberating noise and the willful destruction of private property.† (source)
- The spell, whatever it was, caused no visible damage to the shield, though a deep, gong-like note reverberated from it — an oddly chilling sound.† (source)
- Harry turned to the wizard next to him on the bench and uttered a loud cry of surprise that reverberated around the silent room.† (source)
- She stiffened, cried out as he sank his teeth, and her face was still as the dark theater reverberated with shared passion.† (source)
- She watched him turn away and paused for a moment to listen to the worn heels of his motorcycle boots reverberate down the linoleum hall.† (source)
- Glass cut his cheek as, pulling Hermione with him, he leapt from bed to broken dressing table and then straight out of the smashed window into nothingness, her scream reverberating through the night as they twisted in midair...And then his scar burst open and he was Voldemort and he was running across the fetid bedroom, his long white hands clutching at the windowsill as he glimpsed the bald man and the little woman twist and vanish, and he screamed with rage, a scream that mingled with the girl's, that echoed across th† (source)
- "All right, pal," Finny spoke in his cordial, penetrating voice, that reverberant instrument in his chest, "don't start awarding prizes until you've passed the course.† (source)
- with the gun propped on the roof of the car when I shot again and hit him above the eye, red burst that made me flinch and then, somewhere behind me, I heard the sound of running feet slapping on concrete—the boy, white coat running to the exit ramp with the painting under his arm, he was running up the ramp to the street, echoes reverberating in the tiled space and I can't remember if I shot at him because somehow it was a completely different moment and I was facing away from the car, I was doubled over with my hands on my knees and the gun was on the ground, I had no memory of dropping it although the sound was there, it was clattering to the floor and it kept on clattering and I wa† (source)
- There were screams and yells reverberating from somewhere above them; people exiting the classrooms all around Harry were stopping in their tracks and looking up at the ceiling fearfully — Umbridge came pelting out of her classroom as fast as her short legs would carry her.† (source)
- It was confusing, each sound running into the next sound, like the mingling reverberations of bells, until I learned to separate the sounds, and then they overlapped, each soft but distinct, increasing but discrete, peals of laughter.† (source)
- He could have been depended upon to take a loud dramatic departure, so that the school would have reverberated for weeks afterward with Brinker's Last Words, Brinker's Military Bearing, Brinker's Sense of Duty.† (source)
- A barge sounds its outcast horn and coal cars trundle to and fro and the regular thudding of the hauling machine reverberates through the gloom.† (source)
- The dark shadows of a crowd of people pressed in around them, pushing nearer; Harry felt the ground beneath his head reverberating with their footsteps.† (source)
- The soldiers and the beasts pour onto the scene from all directions as I have seen before, the continuous fall of bombs so loud that it hurts the ears, the reverberations felt in the pit of my stomach.† (source)
- Voldemort's voice reverberated from the walls and floor, and Harry realized that he was talking to Hogwarts and to all the sur-rounding area, that the residents of Hogsmeade and all those still fighting in the castle would hear him as clearly as if he stood beside them, his breath on the back of their necks, a deathblow away.† (source)
- She'd felt everything—the reverberations of the key turning in the lock of her irons, then again as they loosened and fell to the floor.† (source)
- It reverberated, this sound, down the long tunnel of loneliness and making do with watching the touch and caress of others on Earth.† (source)
- My mind went in three directions: that last night in the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, which seemed a year ago, when she talked of love with rancor; my reverberating shock at Armand's revelations or lack of them; and a quiet absorption of the vampires around me, who whispered in the dark beneath the grotesque murals.† (source)
- The whip fell, slicing into bone, reverberating through her body, making everything collapse and explode in agony, shifting her body into a graveyard, a dead—† (source)
- The reverberations of the bells cease.† (source)
- Just a deafening silence, which seemed to reverberate back and forth as if the building were whispering to itself.† (source)
- A BOOM reverberated through the woods—the sound of barroom doors being thrown open—followed by the roar of infuriated giants.† (source)
- The wailing, screeching sound filled the bathroom, echoing and reverberating off the marble walls, but it sounded just as incomprehensible as ever, if not more so with all the echoes.† (source)
- Katherine was amazed how loudly the fountain's flowing water seemed to be reverberating in the courtyard.† (source)
- They flow above the chimneys, ride the sidewalks, slip through your jacket and shirt and breastbone and lungs, and pass out through the other side, the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.† (source)
- The sound of his voice seemed to echo now in the ancient stones of Rosslyn, settling through the earth and reverberating in the unknown hollows below.† (source)
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