Sounded

Famous quotes containing the word sounded:

    The bugle-call to arms again sounded in my war-trained ear, the bayonets gleamed, the sabres clashed, and the Prussian helmets and the eagles of France stood face to face on the borders of the Rhine.... I remembered our own armies, my own war-stricken country and its dead, its widows and orphans, and it nerved me to action for which the physical strength had long ceased to exist, and on the borrowed force of love and memory, I strove with might and main.
    Clara Barton (1821–1912)

    So, when old hopes that earth was bettering slowly
    Were dead and damned, there sounded ‘War is done!’
    One morrow. Said the bereft, and meek, and lowly,
    ‘Will men some day be given to grace? yea, wholly,
    And in good sooth, as our dreams used to run?’
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    It sounded as if the streets were running,
    And then the streets stood still.
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)