anvil chorus
Example Sentences
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Either way, the issues of the McDonald-Abel fight were certain to reverberate like an anvil chorus for a long time in steel uniondom and in the executive suites of the industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
The riders settled for a chilly flatcar under a heaving truck, leaving Colton amid a terrifying anvil chorus of wheels, cars and couplings stressing and whining.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Vandeford was surprised to feel how hard his heart beat, and he was afraid that it sounded like the echo of an anvil chorus in the big empty theater.
From Blue-grass and Broadway by Maria Thompson Daviess
He heard birds and other music which sounded like an anvil chorus performing in the narrow confines of a head as large as a cabin.
From The River Prophet by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
The long arms of the shoring stanchions smote the walls in a kind of terrific anvil chorus to the blaring orchestra of the tempest.
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by T. S. Stribling
