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- noun Obsolete spelling of
echo .
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Examples
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Joseph, who began to tamper with it, and off it went with a prodigious report, augmented by an eccho from the mountains that skirted the road.
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Munsters falsifying eccho, and (as the prouerbe saieth) his blind dreame.
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Ending the poem without resolution, in other words, Blake places ultimate responsibility for political transformation upon his readers, forcing us not only to confront Oothoon's woes but to dwell upon them, hoping, it seems, that we will do more than merely "eccho back her sighs."
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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The Daughters of Albion hear her woes, & eccho back her sighs.
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001
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Munsters falsifying eccho, and (as the prouerbe saieth) his blind dreame.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In so much as my amorous and sounding breathing, by reason of the thicknesse of the ayre in this solytarie and lone place, gaue an eccho, and did put me in minde of my Angelike and extreame desired _Polia_.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Challenger lets fly his Dog, which being a cruel strong Cur rises up to the Bears nose, fastens and turns him topsy-turvy; there's no small joy and an eccho of Shouts that makes the very earth tremble; then there's pulling and hawling to get him off from the Bear: Then the
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Vnlesse I called him the _eccho sound_, I could not tell what name to giue him, vnlesse it were the slow returne.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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ALMORAN, in whose heart there were no traces of OMAR'S virtue, and therefore no foundation for his confidence; sustained himself against their force, by treating them as hypocrisy and affectation: 'I know,' says he, 'that thou hast long learned to eccho the specious and pompous sounds, by which hypocrites conceal their wretchedness, and excite the admiration of folly and the contempt of wisdom: yet thy walk, in this place, shall be still unrestrained.
Almoran and Hamet John Hawkesworth
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And suddainly hearing the fall of trees, through the force of a whyrlewinde, & noise of the broken bowghes, with a redoubled and hoarse sound a farre of, and yet brought to the eccho of the water thorow the thick wood, I grew into a new astonishment.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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