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mellifluous
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  • A mellifluous female voice on the loudspeaker announced the arrival of a southbound train at gate B. "That's B as in Bubba," the voice said, which Denny found slightly odd.†   (source)
  • She also felt secure in the easy mellifluousness of her accent, attractively Viennese.†   (source)
  • He extended his hand, his English refined, mellifluous under his Swiss intonation.†   (source)
  • He chuckled mellifluously with resonant disdain and authority.†   (source)
  • Any bard who possessed such a mellifluous instrument would have his name praised throughout the land as a master of masters.†   (source)
  • Many elves, garbed in their finest tunics, greeted Eragon with soft cries, mellifluous laughter, and snatches of song and music.†   (source)
  • His German is mellifluous—but now Durrfeld, sidetracked from his righteous rage at the British and the Dutch, subsides into his previous detached self, gazing at the turgid Professor beneath arched eyebrows, looking remotely irritated and bored.†   (source)
  • Chang was at his most mellifluous.†   (source)
  • He is alternatively mellifluous and violent in his manner.†   (source)
  • He hymned the old unhappy wars in which he had been Achilles and the mellifluous Nestor, yet gone his righteous ways unheeded by the cruel kings….†   (source)
  • The Father [mellifluously].†   (source)
  • Though her French accent was so much part of her that it remained, all the mellifluousness of her manner left her when she was engaged in teaching.†   (source)
  • Brown was a latter-day buccaneer, sorry enough, like his more celebrated prototypes; but what distinguished him from his contemporary brother ruffians, like Bully Hayes or the mellifluous Pease, or that perfumed, Dundreary-whiskered, dandified scoundrel known as Dirty Dick, was the arrogant temper of his misdeeds and a vehement scorn for mankind at large and for his victims in particular.†   (source)
  • It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood.'†   (source)
  • 'I do know,' said the old gentleman, laying his finger on his nose, with an air of familiarity, most reprehensible, 'that this is a sacred and enchanted spot, where the most divine charms'—here he kissed his hand and bowed again—'waft mellifluousness over the neighbours' gardens, and force the fruit and vegetables into premature existence.†   (source)
  • Only the map of Australia, with its mellifluous Maori names, can match it.†   (source)
  • Some of the most mellifluous of American place-names are in the areas once held by the Spaniards.†   (source)
  • But that was the last and perhaps the only importation of the sage and mellifluous in bulk.†   (source)
  • A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.†   (source)
  • Though in Heaven the trees Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines Yield nectar; though from off the boughs each morn We brush mellifluous dews, and find the ground Covered with pearly grain: Yet God hath here Varied his bounty so with new delights, As may compare with Heaven; and to taste Think not I shall be nice.†   (source)
  • 'Scarce had the rubicund Apollo spread o'er the face of the broad spacious earth the golden threads of his bright hair, scarce had the little birds of painted plumage attuned their notes to hail with dulcet and mellifluous harmony the coming of the rosy Dawn, that, deserting the soft couch of her jealous spouse, was appearing to mortals at the gates and balconies of the Manchegan horizon, when the renowned knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, quitting the lazy down, mounted his celebrated…†   (source)
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