And he would have chosen it instinctively-for onomatopoeic reasons-because it hums and drones and murmurs dreamily.
"A Prisoner in Fairyland"
Algernon Blackwood
In the vernacular the point is brought out by the onomatopoeic character of the lines, which cannot be rendered in English.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
Or he will enlarge, as in the Life of Addison, upon the definition of a simile, the use of similes in poetry, and the distinction between them and what he calls "exemplifications"; or, as in that of Pope, upon the subject of representative metres and onomatopoeic words.
"Dr. Johnson and His Circle"
John Bailey