The sound you produce is unmelodious, excruciating-and triumphant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]

Kinnison whistled through his teeth, a long, low, unmelodious whistle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Lensman]

But his voice sounded harsh and unmelodious, and it made the very ship tremble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

The unmelodious call of a flicker in the pine-tree, and a towhee singing in the distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference

But he kept these unmelodious thoughts to himself, and was outwardly considerate and kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wessex Tales] Reference

The notion that Wagner's music is unmelodious had its origin in the bad musical ears of his early critics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

If a person's voice is pitched too high, is harsh and unmelodious, the remedy is by way of a process of forgetting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

We allowed this unmelodious vocalist to respect us by permitting him to believe us surveyors in another sense than as we were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

“Quaich-quaich,” from their strange loud voice, which seems to repeat these words in various and not unmelodious intonations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

I have suppressed my first name as unmelodious and connecting me too much with a religious persuasion meritorious for its wealth alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

The wide world is wrapped in stories of those transformed into swans, with their more-true-than-human loves and their raw unmelodious voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [it's time to see the world. it's time to kiss the girl.] Reference

Sleep I sing — I, who am unmelodious and hear no music save rustic music when a dog barks, a bell tinkles, or wheels crunch upon the gravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

The men sang in nasal, but not unmelodious tones, weird, crooning songs, with occasionally an up-to-date composition which found its way, no doubt, from nearby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

Donald hummed the words in his not unmelodious baritone, as he climbed up the forest path down which, twelve months before, he had rushed headlong, in blind anger.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

It was a rough and unmelodious tongue, a string of rattling, guttural noises, and there seemed to be two speakers, one with a slightly lower, slower voice than the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]

The libretto is rather poor, the rhymes unmelodious and uneven; nevertheless the musical effect is deep and lasting; the breath of a master-genius has brought it to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The completion of the preparations for my breakfast, by relieving the fire, gave her such extreme joy that she laughed aloud — and a very unmelodious laugh she had, I must say.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

So the great work crept on day by day and year by year, absorbing the whole lives of many devoted labourers, conspicuous among whom are the unmelodious names of Peter Bosch, John.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

The land of long-wandering music and dead unmelodious fountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference

Márton could not refrain from breaking out into an unmelodious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debts of Honor] Reference

The man at the piano still thrashed out his unmelodious chords.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pawns Count] Reference

A heavy step on the stairs, an unmelodious but gentle voice, saying in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

The bell that clears the flying stage became a loud unmelodious clanging.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference

Their music is for the most part religious, inharmonious, and unmelodious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference

Then Polwarth said, in his low and husky, yet not altogether unmelodious voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2] Reference

From a very prosy, tiresome, unmelodious singer, it is suddenly transformed for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

He resumed his pacing, but this time he hummed in the most unmelodious voice imaginable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

They did not show it by an excessive consumption of indigestible fruit, or by bursting into unmelodious song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mufti] Reference

It sounds like the unmelodious clicking of pebbles, while the song of the skylark is loud, clear, and ringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The not unmelodious chant in which she delivered her admonitions rang out, at times, like the peal of a trumpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference

There is a ruggedness in Emerson's verse which attracts some readers while it repels others by its unmelodious rhythm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference

Captain Garrett proved to be the possessor of a very fair tenor, together with a knack of vamping not unmelodious accompaniments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Jim] Reference

Eight couples on the floor tramped or tiptoed, as the case might be, but always in perfect time with the two unmelodious fiddles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book] Reference

"At the present moment she is very busily employed trying to train the most unmelodious choir in Great Britain," replied Miss Mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Young Mutineer] Reference

"There goes Ellen Ember, crazy again," we said, when we heard that cry of hers, not unmelodious nor loud, echoing along Friendship streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship Village] Reference

One could see the veins and muscles over the whole of his body, his teeth chattered, he was covered with wrinkles, bald, and hardly able to utter hollow and unmelodious sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference