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  • "Willibald Schuld of the Rotherbaum Frobelhaus speaking," said the sonorous voice on the other end of the line.†  (source)
  • Anderson's anger, efficiently transmitted through his sonorous, full-toned voice, had shifted from general displeasure with all of us to a focused rage pointed in my direction.†  (source)
  • Its voice was deep and sonorous, and the long slow clanging filled Sansa with a sense of dread.†  (source)
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  • The silence was broken by the village crier beating his sonorous ogene.†  (source)
  • If anyone had ever told Jason Bourne that he was going to be briefed in depth by a Soviet espionage agent whose English was so laced with the Deep South that it sonorously floated out of his mouth with the essence of magnolias, he would have deemed the information preposterous.†  (source)
  • The immortal tune ended, a fine DD rolling forth from the bass-viol with the sonorousness of a cannonade, and Gabriel delayed his entry no longer.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • He made everyone laugh and his own laugh was deep, sonorous, masculinely sexy.†  (source)
  • 'Well, will you look at that,' Aarfy marveled sonorously right beside Yossarian, his plump, orbicular face sparkling with a look of bright enchantment.†  (source)
  • He would refer any mineral to its proper place among the six hundred [l] elementary substances now enumerated, by its fracture, its appearance, its hardness, its fusibility, its sonorousness, its smell, and its taste.†  (source)
  • "Phineas Nigellus," Hermione explained as she threw the bag onto the kitchen table with the usual sonorous, clanking crash.†  (source)
  • An argument of a different sort began on the afternoon of the first day of the meeting, when a bearded man named Alex Goldfarb leaned over his microphone and said, in sonorously accented English, "So.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
  • Mrs Which's voice rang out clear and strong, echoing against the walls of the cavern, and the words fell with a sonorous clang.†  (source)
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