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And there was more that passed through her mind — sensations of tiredness and loneliness; trampling squadrons and shadowy armies of vague feelings and vaguer prompting; and deeper and dimmer whisperings and echoings, the flutterings of forgotten generations crystallized into being and fluttering anew and always, undreamed and unguessed, subtle and potent, the spirit and essence of life that under a thousand deceits and masks forever makes for life.
Chapter XIV 2010
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I could, and probably will, spend a post on the MASH parallels and thematic echoings, starting with Don Draper as a kind of dark double for Hawkeye Pierce, but the main comparison I want to make now is the most banal --- MASH wasn't a novel for television.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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I could, and probably will, spend a post on the MASH parallels and thematic echoings, starting with Don Draper as a kind of dark double for Hawkeye Pierce, but the main comparison I want to make now is the most banal --- MASH wasn't a novel for television.
All the Mad Men and all the Mad Women are having epiphanies 2008
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A labyrinth of grandeur, less the property of an old family of human beings and their ghostly likenesses than of an old family of echoings and thunderings which start out of their hundred graves at every sound and go resounding through the building.
Bleak House 2007
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And the Gorge to be filled with dull and dreadful echoings, as that an hundred Monsters died in this place and that of the darkness in the Gorge, and all to be bred of the noise of that mildewed hill a-dying.
The Night Land 2007
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I knew then that I harked unto little echoings, that did be caught by the near rocks, and to come from some far and mighty sound.
The Night Land 2007
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The settlement center is just like the media echoings in that it is misrepresentation of what it really is.
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The settlement center is just like the media echoings in that it is misrepresentation of what it really is.
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The author hastens to confess echoings from bygone days, hintings of vagrant fancies, and whimsical reveries wherein appeared the vague evasive outlines of half-remembered things.
Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee
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The horse behind her again stumbled, loosening a stone that rolled with crashes and echoings down to the precipice below.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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