10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGH-SOUNDING»
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high-sounding in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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English Synonymes: Explained in Alphabetical Order, with ...
HIGH-SOUNDING signifies the same as pitched upon an elevated key, so as to
make a great noise, to be heard at a distance. CLAMOROUS, from the Latin
clamo, to cry, signifies crying with a loud voice. Low! is here the generic term,
since it ...
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English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order
LOl'ti, NOIBT, HIGH-SOUNDING, CLAMOROUS. LOUD is doubtless connected
through the medium of the German laul a sound, and lauscken to listen, with the
Greek emms to hear, because sounds are the object of hearing. NOISY, having a
...
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English synonymes, explained in alphabet. order
LOUD, NOISY, HIGH-SOUNDING, CLAMOROUS. LOUD, in German, &c., laut, is
connected with laut a sound, lauschen to listen, and the Greek rXuw to hear,
because sounds are the object of hearing. NOISY, having a noise, like noisome
and ...
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Crabb's English Synonymes
Aroisy, from noise, is derived from Old French noise, a debate or quarrel (
something that gives rise to noise in our sense), perhaps from nausea. High-
sounding signifies the same as pitched upon an elevated key, so as to make a
great noise, ...
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Meat-packer Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on ...
It is believed that you gentlemen, under the name that you have assumed here as
representing farmers, are simply the mouthpiece of certain propaganda and are
using that high-sounding name to reinforce your propaganda work, tending to ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, 1920
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Crabb's English Synonymes
Noisy, from noise, is derived from Old French noise, a debate or quarrel (
something that gives rise to noise in our sense), perhaps from nausea. High-
sounding signifies the same as pitched upon an elevated key, so as to make a
great noise, ...
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Percussion Instruments and Their History
High sounding cymbals were probably conical cup-like instruments played by
bringing down the one sharply on the other, or smaller thicker plates with broad
rims and central bosses. (The existence of a species of gong cannot be
dismissed.
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
adjective they clouded the issues with high-sounding words: grand-sounding,
grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, extravagant, exaggerated, elaborate,
flowery, florid, ornate, overblown, overdone, overwrought, grandiose, lofty,
rhetorical, ...
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English Synonyms Explained: In Alphatetical Order, with ...
Loud, Noisy, High-Sounding, Glamorous. great noise, to be heard at a distance.
Glamorous, from the Latin demo to cry, signifies crying with a loud voice. Loud is
here the generic term, since it signifies a great sound, which is the idea common
...
N. P. Gilman High-sounding . , ,, ... . . . Liberalism. reslgned the editorship of the
Literary World, a new tone of criticism of religious subjects seems to be adopted
by that useful and carefully conducted Boston organ of literary opinion. Whether it
...
Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott, 1896
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIGH-SOUNDING»
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high-sounding is used in the context of the following news items.
What Greece can learn from Africa about the effects of austerity after …
The conference document is full of high-sounding words, but the debates are framed in a very different way to those of the 1980s and 1990s. «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
MPs' move to cripple graft war put them on wrong side of history
And that explains why despite high-sounding talks on how corruption is eviscerating the future of Kenya, there has been no high level ... «The Standard Digital News, Jul 15»
Meet Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon, The Bishop Who Teaches Islam
Issues as, the visible and invisible church and the concepts of Monophysitism and similar high-sounding words which may not make meanings ... «Information Nigeria, Jul 15»
MICROSCOPIC MINORITY CONTROLS CEYLON'S EDUCATION
All these self-appointed hodies have high-sounding names. But the Ceylon Head Masters' Conference represents only 25 schools of which ... «Lankaweb, Jul 15»
Unburdening My Mind
... resembling a biblical prophet and having a gift for high-sounding oratory. Otherwise, the world would have looked at the 700,000 young dead ... «Patriot Post, Jul 15»
Labour Export Exposes Govt Desperation
The plan is contrary to the party's high-sounding but daydreaming 2013 election manifesto in which it promised to provide more than two million ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Mujuru 'allies' bounce back
... Mugabe's reshuffle, variously describing it as “a damp squib tinkering of deadwood” and a “high-sounding but insignificant exercise”. Political ... «Nehanda Radio, Jul 15»
Are you proud to be an American today? I am.
The 56 courageous men who signed the Declaration of Independence understood that this was not just high-sounding rhetoric. They knew that ... «Monroe News Star, Jul 15»
Dr John Lee says Chinese free-trade deals are no guarantee …
And despite such high-sounding principles, the track record is that Beijing has frequently resorted to such ad hoc and arbitrary regulatory ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
The Bone of Pseudo-Revolution
The appeal to abstract high-sounding morals of political correctness is not just a philosophic mistake by overexcited individuals, but also a ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
