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1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance Pref. sig. aiii Hauinge also rynging alway in myn eare, the terrible checke that the good maister in the gospell gaue to his ydel seruaunte.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 74 Thy old grones yet ringing in mine auncient eares. View more context for this quotation

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 121 The Sound seems still to Ring in my Ears.

1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. at Ring about These words ring continually about my ears.

1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 605/2 That old Artaxerxes evening had never done ringing in my fancy.

1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. iii. 38 The two bars of music were constantly ringing in my ears.

1841 E. C. Grey Little Wife I. xviii. 208 Listening, hour after hour, to a voice, the music of whose sounds must ever ring in my memory.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xvii. 305 The voice of God still rang in his heart.

1918 Aussie: Austral. Soldiers' Mag. Feb. 112/1 There's the ‘Jackies’ laugh and the ‘Coo-ee’ call. They echo and ring in the hearts of us all.

1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art ii. xi. 237 By further acts of attention I can recover sounds which still ring in my memory, though I should describe myself as not actually hearing them at the moment.

1948 M. Desai tr. M. K. Gandhi Autobiogr. xx. 90 The verses in the second chapter..made a deep impression on my mind, and they still ring in my ears.

1963 W. S. Pakenham-Walsh Tudor Story ii. 8 It [sc. a thought] rang in my head as I rode along the country lanes.

2005 J. M. Lindskold Child of Rainless Year v. 75 Rainless. The word rung in my ears as if spoken in my mother's voice.