hoariness

Example Sentences

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Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.

From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2020

What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2012

Here there met them an old man, handsome in his hoariness and of a venerable bearing and a dignified, agreeable of aspect and apparel.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Then she turned and saw within the chamber an old man, handsome in his hoariness and stately of semblance, who was dancing in goodly and winning wise, a dance whose like none might dance.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A company of Prophets, of venerable hoariness, dressed in golden coats and mantles, with their heads covered and wrapped 85 in gold and crimson, sang with sweet harmony, bowing to the ground, a psalm of thanksgiving.

From King Henry the Fifth Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre by Kean, Charles John