Adjective : a sonorous cavern. ,a sonorous speech. From Dictionary.com.
The thunder was re - echoed among the rocks with a grand sonorousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
The words uttered by the little provincial had an indefinable sonorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
But his roars, which were really artistic in their brutal sonorousness, served us a good purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
In her reluctant political career, Dagny had often needed to speak with more sonorousness than directness. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
And the voice grew in sonorousness and in dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Turmoil] Reference
The thunder was re-echoed among the rocks with a grand sonorousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Island] Reference
Don't you perceive the sonorousness of these old dead Latin phrases?. From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
When heard near by, the sonorousness of the sound reminds one of the cello. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
The tuneful bell had lost by its slumbers none of its deep-toned sonorousness. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference
He gives out a verse to sing, with a sonorousness like that of a golden bell in his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Singers of Wales] Reference
Rousseau had the sonorousness of speech which popular confusion of thought is apt to identify with depth. From Wordnik.com. [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference
The pianoforte assumed under his fingers a marvellous and never harsh sonorousness, for he did not seek forced effects. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
The soft, rounded Italian contours and sweet sonorousness of some of Chopin's cantilene cannot escape the notice of the observer. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
We miss the vivid precision and the high spirits of Voltaire, the glow and the brooding sonorousness of Rousseau, the pomp of Buffon. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
After midnight the voice of a clock seems to lose in breadth as much as in length, and to diminish its sonorousness to a thin falsetto. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
Then, while the strings, vigorously attacked, gave forth a humid sound of melancholy sonorousness, these words escaped his smiling lips. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference
The childish and tremulous voice acquired a grave sonorousness as it resounded over the watery expanse and was reproduced by the echoes from the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference
Minister and sonorousness of his voice with commonplace character of utterance tickled fancy of House, then as now almost childishly eager to be amused. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914] Reference
He gave it inflections, and distinguished its moods, and threw over it an air of system and coherency, and a certain goodly and far-reaching sonorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron] Reference
The librarian's name was Fritzing; plain Herr Fritzing originally, but gradually by various stages at last arrived at the dignity and sonorousness of Herr. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight] Reference
From time to time there were church-bells, variously like tin pans and iron pots in tone, without sonorousness in their noise, or such wild clangor as some. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
We did not find that sonorousness in the Tonga-tabboo dialect, which is prevalent in that of Otaheite, because the inhabitants of the former have adopted the F. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
The artists, who were in evidence until evening, were easily recognized by their activity, the sonorousness of their voices, and the authority of their gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Strong as Death] Reference
A new grace invested his every gesture; a new sonorousness rang in his voice; a simple and manly pomposity marked his very walk as he passed from curio to curio. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod] Reference
Not one of them had the full sonorousness of such national trumpets as were Corneille and Hugo: but how much deeper and more subtle in expression was their music!. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House] Reference
These came from the secret travail of the moisture, the sighs of the atmosphere, the drops that glided over the stones, and fell below with the sonorousness of sobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
A deep rumbling noise, increased in intensity by the sonorousness of the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Island] Reference
A clock seems to lose in breadth as much as in length, and to diminish its sonorousness to a thin falsetto. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
Any one may give their remarks an interrogative turn, "he continued, his sonorousness rising with his style. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
With a fitful shift at thin sonorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Craig: III. III. Captain Craig, Etc] Reference
Flare and sonorousness and. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
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