shout quotes

Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of withered leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;hardlya shout From a few boys late at their play!

- Matthew Arnold
  New Poems,'Rugby Chapel, November1857'.

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard thesound of thetrumpet, and the peopleshouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 90

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joshua 6:20.

'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?'suggested Mr Snodgrass.'Shout with the largest,'replied Mr Pickwick.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.13.

When in doubt, shoutthat's the motto.

- Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Attributed, repeating advice that was given to him as a young actor.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

-William Ralph Inge
  The End of an  Age, ch.4.

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.542^3.

Ye say, theyall have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.

- Lydia Howard ne  e Huntley Sigourney
  Select Poems,'Indian Names'.