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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 146 The same verse might euen I myself also ryng in the eares of such persones.

1600 N. Breton Strange Fortunes Two Excellent Princes 42 In the time of Rantifoes being in our Courte, thou couldest neuer cease to ring in mine eares some cause of dislike in him.

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra viii. 29 This lesson had need to be often rung in our ears.

1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xix. 190 The people rang this continually in their ears.

1709 J. Swift Let. conc. Sacramental Test 23 Persecution was every Day rung in our Ears.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 231 I took all opportunities of ringing in their ears, such instances of the Spaniards cruelty.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §246 I found it eternally rung in my ears from all quarters.

1869 Deb. of Conscience with Distiller, Wholesale Dealer, & Retailer ii. in S. T. Hammond Coll. Temperance Dialogues 62 You are always harping upon my being a professor of religion, and bringing up some text of Scripture, which might as well be let alone, and which you would not ring in my ears, if you had any regard to my peace, or even your own.

1887 T. F. Gantt Breaking Chains xiii, in M. C. Grimes Knights in Fiction (1986) 113 Until ‘the injury of one is the concern of all’ was rung in her ears by the Knights of Labor, her ambition had all been centered in self.

1907 A. MacLaren Expos. Holy Script. St. John Chapters IX to XIV (xiv. 4–7) 282 Plainly enough it had been rung in their ears over and over again.

1921 W. R. Hadwen First Impressions Amer. xiv. 225 I then understood as I could have understood in no other way, what was meant when on every hand was rung in my ears, ‘You must see the Grand Canyon!’

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.