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  • It's methodical and smart, filled with inscrutable but deep-sounding ruminations on love and loss.

    Album review: The National, "High Violet" 2010

  • It looked to be an easy play, but suddenly the deep-sounding riffs shook the sod and redirected the rock over his glove and down the line.

    BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010

  • It looked to be an easy play, but suddenly the deep-sounding riffs shook the sod and redirected the rock over his glove and down the line.

    BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010

  • That was, we recall, to defend Enlightenment reason and to counter the abuse of possibly empty but certainly ill-understood deep-sounding language in science and in public life.

    Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

  • Endowed with an active, though largely untutored, mind, he is attracted by the resonances of deep-sounding ideas, and he superimposes upon the brash conservatism of the country-club locker rooms some hasty acquaintance with the notions of our ultraconservative highbrows.

    A Long View: Goldwater in History Hofstadter, Richard 1964

  • The deep-sounding cow bells, the dinner horns, the ring of the ax, and the thunder of the falling tree keep them in happy remembrance of their brethren and of their diligence and success, and often wake the anticipation of the coming Sabbath, when they will blend their songs and prayers around the mercy seat.

    Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock

  • Instead of this, they pursued, in deep-sounding and majestically rolling dactyls, the less favorite and trodden track of Socrates and Plato, and discoursed upon temperance and honor -- upon the satisfaction derived from

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Also, the fact that a church is out of sight does not always mean that it is out of mind; and when the fine, deep-sounding peal of Lanteglos bells rings for service on Sunday mornings, a good number of countryfolk wend their way through the lanes and meadows towards it.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • We heard them by reason they delight much to have deep-sounding bells, which, in a still night, are heard very far off.

    Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols

  • And so we must get our lamps refilled, and we find the precious oil in the green pastures or by the deep-sounding sea.

    Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

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