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The word “resound” is used in literature to evoke a powerful, often overwhelming spread of sound that mirrors both the physical and emotional landscapes of a scene. In ancient epics, it frequently captures the reverberation of heroic deeds and clashing arms, as the ringing of armor and throbbing battle cries seem to echo across the heavens ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In other contexts, it lends lyricism to descriptions—whether the solitary voice of a character or the jubilant clamor of a celebration—transforming natural phenomena and human expressions into a shared, resounding chorus ([5], [6], [7]). Moreover, in modern narrative and reflective prose, “resound” is invoked as a metaphor for the ripple effects of emotion and public discourse, amplifying moments of personal and collective significance ([8], [9]).
  1. The counsel pleased; and Hector, with a bound, Leap'd from his chariot on the trembling ground; Swift as he leap'd his clanging arms resound.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  2. Prostrate he falls; his clanging arms resound, And his broad buckler thunders on the ground.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  3. Thundering he falls; his falling arms resound, And his broad buckler rings against the ground.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  4. Meanwhile fresh slaughter bathes the sanguine ground, Heaps fall on heaps, and heaven and earth resound.
    — from The Iliad by Homer
  5. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound.
    — from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
  6. Heaven and earth shall resound with joy!
    — from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
  7. Then Charles for two hours had to suffer the torture of hearing the hammer resound against the wood.
    — from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  8. If a member of the National Assembly at Paris got a blow on the ear, it would resound from one end of Europe to the other.
    — from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
  9. Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming.
    — from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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