"Loud-voiced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cold and loud-voiced winter night, The three were seated by their cottage-fire— The mother watching by its flickering light The wakeful urchin, and the dozing sire; There was a brief, quick motion like a bird's, And the boy's ...
— Poems of Henry Timrod • Henry Timrod
... no love to school or schoolmaster is little wonder. Perhaps Publius may be fortunate; but if his schoolmaster is of the ordinary type he will be an irascible loud-voiced person, who bawls and scolds and thrashes. It will be a common thing to find, as Seneca puts it, a man "in a violent passion teaching you that to be in a passion is wrong." The doctrine went that "he who is not flayed is not educated." The methods of the military centurion may have had something ...
— Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul • T. G. Tucker
... favour won us place, Got between greed of gold and dread of drouth, Loud-voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race That whips ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling
... been telegraphed ahead, and all Shellanne—which was not much of a crowd—gathered at the station to meet the train and congratulate the heroes. Thurston alighted almost shamefacedly into the midst of the loud-voiced commotion. While he was looking uncertainly about him, wondering where to go and what to do, a voice he knew hailed him ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... dollars! They had expected no more than thirty. Surprise made them speechless,—that is, for a moment; then a pandemonium of hurrahs, shrieks and loud-voiced enthusiasm made the room ring, till wonder seized them again, and a sudden silence fell, through which I caught a far-off wail of grief from the disappointed ones without, which, heard in the dark and narrow place in which ...
— The House in the Mist • Anna Katharine Green
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