Read full poem →Jove's thunder roars, heaven trembles all around,
Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound:
Earth shakes her nodding towers, the ground gives way,
Dictionary Entry
To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. bellowingvoice bellowingbellowing loud
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Poetry examples for “bellowing”
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Read full poem →You seemed to hear them climb and fall
And roar, rock-thwarted, under bellowing caves,
Beneath the windy wall."
Read full poem →Fresh pearls to their enamel gave,
And the bellowing of the savage sea
Greeted their safe escape to me.
Read full poem →October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves
The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood
Read full poem →12. Cf. Dryden, _Virgil's Geo._ i.: "And rocks the bellowing voice of
boiling seas resound;" Pope, _Iliad_: "Rocks rebellow to the roar."
Read full poem →Thereon the bellowing of the empounded herds
Rose round the walls, and through the bronze-ringed door
Read full poem →The ribboned stick, the bellowing breeches, cloak