mellifluent

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“It was then a sump of aged men with liver spots, claws, and bourbon breath, who strode the chamber with reptilian gait and hailed one another with mellifluent courtesies.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022

Jesus is represented only by a deep, mellifluent voice, speaking parables in Biblical language.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jovial Neptune Doumergue promised, last week, in a mellifluent oration that France will never loose her sea dogs in a war of conquest, will employ them solely as sea watch dogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not because of the wrinkles, and the face so old it could not be alive, but because out of the toothless mouth came the strong, mellifluent voice of a twenty-year-old girl.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

How doth yonder miniature featness, Though wingless, with gossamer wit, Foregather mellifluent sweetness, While Fates unrelenting permit— Wise heir of bright hours, completeness Of blossoms that flicker and flit.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 by Various