"Roar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the chill Scirocco blow, And gird us round with hills of snow; Or else go whistle to the shore, And make the hollow mountains roar: ...
— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge
... doze into which I continually fell, by a sound of horses' feet over our head: sometimes lumbering heavily as if dragging a burden, sometimes rattling and galloping; and with the sharper cry of men's voices coming cutting through the roar of the waters. At length, day fell. We had to drop into the stream, which came above our knees as we waded to the bank. There we stood, stiff and shivering. Even Amante's courage ...
— Curious, if True - Strange Tales • Elizabeth Gaskell
... never more; Here the mower, his sickle at rest, by the streams, Lulled with harp-strings, reviews, in the calm of his dreams, The fields, when the harvest is o'er. Here, he, whose ears drank in the battle roar, Whose banners streamed upon the startled wind A thunder-storm,—before whose thunder tread The mountains trembled,—in soft sleep reclined, By the sweet brook that o'er its pebbly bed In silver plays, and murmurs to the shore, Hears the stern clangor of wild spears no more! Here ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... great roar burst out, echoing and reechoing continuously as the group approached the ring and Jefferson climbed ...
— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins
... Newark is Edward Weston, who has thriven amid its turmoil and there has developed his beautiful instruments of precision; just as Brush worked out his arc-lighting system in Cleveland; or even as Faraday, surrounded by the din and roar of London, laid the intellectual foundations of the whole modern science of dynamic electricity. But Edison, though deaf, could not make too hurried a retreat from Newark to Menlo Park, where, as if to justify his change of base, vital inventions soon came thick ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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