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Updated: May 28, 2025
She took no notice of the strength of the language, perhaps indeed she re-echoed it in some feminine equivalent. "It is true," she said with a sigh. "I knew that it would come, those dreadful things always do and it was not my fault I am sure you will always remember that.
In a growing desire to be asked to play, Boehmer had for some time hung about the piano, and was now just about to drop, as if by accident, upon the stool, when the cry of: "No Bach!" was raised Bach was Boehmer's specialty and re-echoed, and he retired red and discomfited to his Place in a corner of the room, where his companion, a statuesque little English widow, made biting observations on the company's behaviour.
We sped on thus until sunset, when the sail was suddenly lowered and with loud shouts, which were re-echoed from the shore, the canoe's course was altered, the craft grounding a few minutes afterwards on a beach where all hands of us landed.
As the day drew to a close, the cannonade slackened on either side, a solitary gun would be heard at intervals, and in the calm stillness around, its booming thunder re-echoed along the valleys of the Sierra; but as the moon rose and night set in, these were no longer heard, and a perfect stillness and tranquillity prevailed around.
"The chain of gowd!" re-echoed the housekeeper, both aghast with astonishment at the audacity of the proposal. "I will keep a few links," continued the young man, "to remind me of him by whom it was won, and the place where he won it," continued Morton; "the rest shall furnish me the means of following the same career in which my father obtained that mark of distinction."
"May the devil fly away with half of ye," was my grateful response, to as full a cheer of applause as ever the walls of the house re-echoed to.
Gladys rose up, weary and perplexed, her face looking worn and grey in the brilliant sunshine. Her heart re-echoed the words of the little spinster; for the moment the loveliness of the earth seemed a mockery and a shame. 'Why is it so? was the only question she asked. Miss Peck shook her head.
But in the splendour that Cuzco was, in the golden temples of the town of gold, along the scarlet lanes where sacred peacocks strolled and girls more sacred still vestals whom Pizarro's soldiers raped in that City of the Sun, the Word re-echoed. The mystery of it, reported back to the Holy Office, was declared an artifice of the devil.
When borne on the crest, of these awful billows for a time their curses against a just God would be appalling, and their pitiful cries for water would be heartrending. This vast region of fire echoed and re-echoed with the wails of these lost spirits.
"The thanksgiving hymn which re-echoed under the vaults of the holy temple found an echo in all hearts," we read in another account; "and the least happy was not that of the worthy prelate who thus inaugurated his long and laborious episcopal career." The virtue of Mgr. de Laval lacked the supreme consecration of misfortune.
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