All 9 Uses of
sonorous
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- His firm, sonorous, and unexpected voice made every one start.†
Chpt 29-30 *
- …he had seen before he slept, but a blue, transparent, unbounded horizon, with all the blue of the ocean, all the spangles of the sun, all the perfumes of the summer breeze; then, in the midst of the songs of his sailors,—songs so clear and sonorous, that they would have made a divine harmony had their notes been taken down,—he saw the Island of Monte Cristo, no longer as a threatening rock in the midst of the waves, but as an oasis in the desert; then, as his boat drew nearer, the…†
Chpt 31-32
- It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz's ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum.†
Chpt 33-34
- In the centre of the room was a Roller and Blanchet "baby grand" piano in rosewood, but holding the potentialities of an orchestra in its narrow and sonorous cavity, and groaning beneath the weight of the chefs-d'oeuvre of Beethoven, Weber, Mozart, Haydn, Gretry, and Porpora.†
Chpt 39-40
- Some few words passed between them in that sonorous language in which Homer makes his gods converse.†
Chpt 45-46
- As Monte Cristo approached, she leaned upon the elbow of the arm that held the narghile, and extending to him her other hand, said, with a smile of captivating sweetness, in the sonorous language spoken by the women of Athens and Sparta, "Why demand permission ere you enter?†
Chpt 49-50
- This was said in excellent Tuscan, and with that soft Roman accent which makes the language of Dante as sonorous as that of Homer.†
Chpt 77-78
- Haidee looked up abruptly, as if the sonorous tones of Monte Cristo's voice had awakened her from a dream; and she resumed her narrative.†
Chpt 77-78
- '—'I was, indeed,' said the stranger, with a tone of sweet melancholy, and with the sonorous voice peculiar to the East.†
Chpt 85-86
Definition:
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(sonorous) full and deep sounding