reduplicating

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Far and wide the thundering shout, Rolling among reduplicating rocks, Pealed o'er the hills, and up the mountain vales.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Ah! if science had only the means of conducting and reduplicating sounds, as it does the rays of light, what carols of happiness would then have entranced my ears!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various

I sometimes wonder whether those who are forgiven, yet have left evil behind them on earth, are purified by being shown their own errors reduplicating with time and numbers.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones—whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets—and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.

From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Reid, Mayne

No amount of after manipulation could condone so vicious a slaughter of space and line opportunities which the background, with its reduplicating edge, accomplishes.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin