bray
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What he actually wrote was “dogs bark it, asses and mules bray it, and bilious bipeds whistle it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Conductor in rehearsal: “Violins, you’re scratchy and flat! Trombones — don’t bray like mating zebras! Kettledrums, what extraordinarily horrendous noise! Xylophone: unbelievably grotesque — just quit! Otherwise — perfect.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022
So he reached back to his Broadway experience as Mozart in “Amadeus” — the composer was said to have stunned the imperial court in Vienna with his donkey’s bray of a laugh.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2019
Any time he appeared before reporters, they'd ask if "Curb" was coming back and he'd bray some indifferent punchline that would be dutifully quoted.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2018
And so the words died away into a donkey's bray.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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