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
The knocking at the side door and the thumping overhead blended in a travesty on the anvil chorus, the staccato tapping of somebody's knuckles rising flute-like above the hammering of Joel's cane.
From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. Smith
And she had also implored the brothers of Diogenes 61 to continue their anvil chorus!
From Our Next-Door Neighbors by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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
