The stentorian honks of the geese could be heard for miles. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : a stentorian voice. From Dictionary.com.
BURGLARY! in stentorian tones every time a cat crosses the yard. From Wordnik.com. [i walk where the bottles break and the blacktop still comes back for more] Reference
He then led us through a narrow, dark alley underneath a house, where I dismounted, as a lama called out in stentorian voice. From Wordnik.com. [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference
"How do you like London?" said a loud voice, in the tones that are sometimes called stentorian, and Patty suddenly realised that her host was addressing her. From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Friends] Reference
"Just one moment," called a stentorian voice in the gallery. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
Lock the door to mom’s basement, firmly grasp your testicles, and feel them grow as you recite it out loud in stentorian tones. From Wordnik.com. […Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, and Thrifty…] Reference
"Roll out!" he yelled in stentorian tones. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave] Reference
"Owd Bob, bless him!" called a stentorian voice. From Wordnik.com. [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference
Called the master of ceremonies in stentorian tones. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
"Eh, Anna, come here," he cried in stentorian German. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
The Senator shouted this one word in a stentorian voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
They were made captains of two stentorian bands of followers. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Hugues heard, as in a dream, a startling stentorian, familiar cry. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
But above and over all rose the stentorian tones of the stump speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
"What's the matter with Matson?" someone shouted in a stentorian voice. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Above the tumult of the torrent his stentorian tones were plainly heard. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Our desire would be to herald to all young men in stentorian tones the advice. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Just don't expect the stentorian tones of the actors who read actual audio books. From Wordnik.com. [New Amazon Kindle: Slimmer and chattier] Reference
"Descampativos!" he suddenly exclaimed in a stentorian tone, throwing off his robe. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
He paused, and the room was very still, except for Big Jerry's stentorian breathing. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
A roar of laughter, which seemed to come from stentorian lungs, was heard in the throng. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The A.A.G. paused, stammered; then, raising his hand grandly, shouted in stentorian tones. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Now this cheerful stentorian voice was just a little shaky for once, and his eyes were moist. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Suddenly Nancy realized that the big man in front of her was roaring her name in stentorian tones. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
"Harken to the lecture on lobsters by Professor James Spurling!" announced Lane in stentorian tones. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He had a stentorian voice, and must have had lungs not less invulnerable than one of Homer's heroes. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The jokes sometimes feel predictable, as do the Colbert character's stentorian right-wing proclamations. From Wordnik.com. [The Truthiness Teller] Reference
All save the guests rose, and led by the Commandant's stentorian voice, sang "They are Jolly Good Fellows.". From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
David's stentorian tones asking, "Are you all right, Jean?" brought back swift realization of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
It had hardly died away when the stentorian order "Unmask!" was shouted out by a junior through a megaphone. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Black Hawk directed the fight while sitting on his pony, his stentorian voice reaching every part of the field. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
Wentworth, of Chicago -- elevated his tall and massive form, and with a stentorian voice called Mr. Brooks to order. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Upon the announcement that "Alf" had "arriv," I heard the stentorian lungs of Colonel Durbin Ward ask: "Dead or alive?". From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
Blackwall has a stunningly versatile voice, moving from classically trained purity to a stentorian Grace Slick holler at will. From Wordnik.com. [Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and the Cairo Gang; Trembling Bells] Reference
Here a man in corduroys and a rabbit-skin waistcoat called in a stentorian voice for order, and the babel gradually died down. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Suddenly my ear caught a voice calling up the hillside -- the colonel's -- followed twice by the stentorian tones of his servant. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Immediately after this short dialogue the captain proceeded to give the orders for tacking in a stentorian voice, as the wind was high. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
But exactly what was useless did not appear, as at this point a stentorian voice, the voice of Miss Kling's "fine, sensible man," roared. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
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