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It has become an axiom with physiologists that fatigue is simply a form of self-poisoning, or, as they sonorously phrase it, autointoxication.
The votes were taken as before, commencing with the young lieutenant, who now responded sonorously: "Not guilty!" And so it ran around the entire circle. "Not guilty!" "Not guilty!" "Not guilty!" were the hearty responses of the court. The acquittal was unanimous. The verdict was recorded.
A spirit of manliness is cultivated, which excludes roughness but develops self-reliance and self-control. The student is required, when speaking, to look his teacher in the face, and to utter his words not only distinctly, but sonorously. Demeanour in class is partly enforced by the class-room fittings themselves.
Rocking his body backwards and forwards and dwelling sonorously on each vowel, the holy man seemed the incarnation of Muslim piety; but as the two conspirators passed him with scarce a glance, and made their way to a small gate leading into the great garden bordering on the Nile, his eyes watched them sharply.
I recall him first on a day soon after our entrance into college in 1851. A civic celebration was to take place in Boston, and the Harvard students were to march in the procession. That day I first heard Fair Harvard, sonorously rendered by the band at the head of our column, as we formed on the Beacon Street mall before the State House.
To christen a baby like that was, in a manner, a challenge to public attention; the faint relaxation about the lips of Dr Drummond the best of the Liberals himself, though he made a great show of keeping it out of the pulpit recognized this, and the just perceptible stir of the congregation proved it. Sonorously he said it.
"Did Nate gin ye a word fur me?" he called sonorously, above the clamor of the noisy bark-mill. "He say he'll be hyar ter-morrer by sun-up!" piped out Rufe, in a blatant treble. A lie seemed less reprehensible when he was obliged to labor so conscientiously to make it heard. And then compunction seized him.
At the entrance to the living room the butler announced sonorously: "Mayor Poundstone and Mrs. Poundstone." "Glad to see you aboard the ship," Colonel Pennington boomed with his best air of hearty expansiveness. "Well, well," he continued, leading Mrs. Poundstone to a divan in front of the fire, "this is certainly delightful. My niece will be down in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
A clergyman at one of the rear tables quietly remarked, "Washout," and Saterlee, who had not forgotten the days when he had learned to fall from a bucking bronco, relaxed his great muscles and swore roundly, sonorously, and at great length. The car came to rest at the bottom of the embankment, less on its side than on its top. For a moment or so it seemed all was perfectly quiet.
I hoped he would be an acquisition, that by his obedience and his fidelity to duty he would shed luster on our school." Here Socrates blew his nose sonorously, and resumed: "But what has happened? On the very first day of his residence here he brutally assaults one of our numbers, my nephew, and displays the savage instincts of a barbarian.
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