November 30th, 2004 at 4:39 pm i agree with stentor and mythago, and posted a response on my blog much more wordy than the succinct comments. From Wordnik.com. [Hereville page 18 is up!] Reference
English freedom has degenerated into the rudest licence, and it is not uncommon in the midst of the most affecting part of a tragedy, or the most charming cadenza of a singer, to hear some coarse expression shouted from the gallery in a stentor voice. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Fond of a drink, which may have been the cause of her loud behaviour, Elizabeth was described as Amazonian, of huge size, with masculine features and the voice of a stentor.12 It seems clear to us in the twenty-first century that Charlotte and Elizabeth were harmless eccentrics who certainly did not belong in a mental hospital, or even in custody. From Wordnik.com. [Bedlam] Reference
“Am I to be obeyed or not,” said this feminine stentor. From Wordnik.com. [The Child of Mystery] Reference
My father, quite pale, calling with a stentor voice to the sentinels. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1] Reference
His stentor lungs; that combination of wit, humour, and eloquence, which. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
Come forth, thou unconscionable hag! "added Beniah, in the voice of a stentor," and do your worst. From Wordnik.com. [The Hot Swamp] Reference
The valley is reached every day, just as the people in a pure democracy were reached by the ancient stentor. From Wordnik.com. [The French in the Heart of America] Reference
The officer of the watch, without the interval of half a moment, gave the right orders, in the voice of a stentor. From Wordnik.com. [A Simpleton] Reference
Gorenflot drew a gigantic sword from the scabbard, and waving it in the air, cried in the voice of a stentor, "Attention!". From Wordnik.com. [The Forty-Five Guardsmen] Reference
The first intimation that Skipper Martin had of the change was John Binning bursting into a hymn with the voice of a stentor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea] Reference
Once more opening his mouth and shutting his eyes, and laughing like a stentor, Kit gradually backed to the door, and roared himself out. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
Again did the stentor-note of Daniel ring forth, and it was amid thunderous cheering that Richard left his chair and moved to the front of the platform. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
Bob made for the back staircase, while Joe picked up the branch, and turning his head in the direction of the open door, shouted in the voice of a stentor, "Down with 'er!". From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade] Reference
Out of their wigwams issue sounds of boisterous hilarity, as though they were celebrating some grand festival, with now and then a peal of laughter that might have proceeded from the lungs of a stentor. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure] Reference
Such was the speech, delivered with stentor-lungs, from the rear; the Corporal at the same moment amusing himself with thrusting back his sabre into the steel sheath, with such an emphasis, as to make it ring again. From Wordnik.com. [The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc.] Reference
The enormous locomotive-engine, with its driving-wheels that stood higher than a man's head, impressed him mightily, for all that the monster's burning heart had grown cold and its stentor breathing had been hushed forever. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsman] Reference
Why is that above all this cackle about prosperity can be heard the stentor tones of Markhanna's organ advising American workmen that they must come squarely down to the European wage level before they can hope for permanent employment?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
Guadaloupe but fortunately the skin of the Simia chiropotes, the only one in Europe, was sent a few years ago to the Jardin des Plantes, where the couxio (Simia satanas) and the stentor or alouate of the steppes of Caracas (Simia ursina) had been already received. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The monkeys and birds died at Guadaloupe but fortunately the skin of the Simia chiropotes, the only one in Europe, was sent a few years ago to the Jardin des Plantes, where the couxio (Simia satanas) and the stentor or alouate of the steppes of Caracas (Simia ursina) had been already received. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
Gone is that scarebabe stentor, that bellowing bull of Bashan the village blacksmith, gone is the melodious carpenter, gone the brawny shepherd with the red hair, who roared more lustily than all, until they came to the words, "Shepherds with your flocks abiding," when modesty covered him with confusion, and compelled him to be silent, as though his own health were being drunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of All Flesh] Reference
stentor: If looking for a high SAT score is eugenicist then so if the process by which most college-educated people find mates. From Wordnik.com. [Should anonymous egg and sperm donation be legal?] Reference
"Lord Markus Hauksberg, Viscount of Ny Kalmar, Second Minister of Extra-Imperial Affairs, and Lady Hauksberg!" cried the stentor. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
He cried out that he wished he had the lungs of a stentor and that there was a reporter present to take down his words; he said he had lately addressed them in Cooper Institute, where he told them Mr. Lincoln wanted to tear the hardworking man from his wife and family and send him to the war; he denounced Mr. Lincoln for his conscription bill which was in favor of the rich and against the poor man; he called him a Nero and a Caligula for such a measure, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
In one place a band was playing, in another a gong was thundering, and from one of the balconies a fellow in regal robes and a pasteboard crown, surrounded by several persons of both sexes in tawdry stage-dresses, who seemed to have just got out of bed and were yawning and rubbing their eyes, was vociferating to the crowd in praise of the entertainment which was shortly to be offered them, while not far off the stentor of a rival company, under a flag which announced a new pantomime for a penny, was declaiming with equal vehemence. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference
"Legislators!" so speaks the stentor-voice, as the Newspapers yet preserve it for us, "it is not the alarm-cannon that you hear: it is the pas-de-charge against our enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
ALGA, stentor feeding on spores of, 47. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
Then some stentor would strike a stave of. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
9. stentor national integrated communications network 2,029. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Kinsella] Reference
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