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- adverb With a loud
sound .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And, oh! ye Pharisees of the nineteen hundredth year of Christian Knowledge, who soundingly appeal to human nature, see that it be human first.
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Her gift lay in preferring the company of her good gossips to the select family gathering assembled in the Ark, and in playing with Noah's ears very soundingly when at length she was forcibly dragged into safety.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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Elizabeth, still blind with fear, went to sit down upon a bench where no bench was, and instead sat down soundingly upon the floor.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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The door slammed soundingly behind him, and John sat gazing at it until the house shook with another tremendous bang, this time from the street door.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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He recalled how excited he had been in that far-away time when he had first learned her identity -- for the name of Wayland was spoken soundingly in the middle West.
The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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It is pleasant to think of the shy delight with which the delicate, flower-like, almost ethereal poet-wife, in those memorable Pisan evenings -- with the wind blowing soundingly from the hills of Carrara, or quiescent in a deep autumnal calm broken only by the slow wash of Arno along the sea-mossed long-deserted quays -- showed her love-poems to her husband.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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Then, after some moments of irresolution, during which he struck his chest soundingly and gazed down, talked alternately to himself and the boy, and cast his eyes along the windows of the house, he at last dropped on one knee and swaddled the boy in the folds of the shawl.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Then, after some moments of irresolution, during which he struck his chest soundingly and gazed down, talked alternately to himself and the boy, and cast his eyes along the windows of the house, he at last dropped on one knee and swaddled the boy in the folds of the shawl.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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Then, after some moments of irresolution, during which he struck his chest soundingly and gazed down, talked alternately to himself and the boy, and cast his eyes along the windows of the house, he at last dropped on one knee and swaddled the boy in the folds of the shawl.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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And, oh! ye Pharisees of the nineteen hundredth year of Christian Knowledge, who soundingly appeal to human nature, see that it be human first.
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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