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With the orotund, as well as with the natural quality, all the voice modes previously described may be conjoined.
THE ONTARIO READERS: THE HIGH SCHOOL READER, 1886MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONPure voice is usually spoken of as being manifested in two qualities, the natural and the orotund.
THE ONTARIO READERS: THE HIGH SCHOOL READER, 1886MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONOne given to sonorous and orotund phrases would doubtless have coined a most splendid speech here.
SUNDRY ACCOUNTSIRVIN S. COBBIn an orotund voice he declaims to his pupils the mighty revelations that he copied from the book.
THE VITALIZED SCHOOLFRANCIS B. PEARSONThere is a voice of unusual roundness and fulness known as the orotund, which is indispensable to the public speaker.
TALKS ON TALKINGGRENVILLE KLEISERThe use of the orotund voice varies according to the intensity of the thought and feeling being expressed.
TALKS ON TALKINGGRENVILLE KLEISERHe pitched his orotund voice upon me as if he were giving a command in a gale at sea.
A REPUBLIC WITHOUT A PRESIDENT AND OTHER STORIESHERBERT WARDAlways an orotund man, he has the Chautauqua manner indeed in this exigency.
THE ART OF THE MOVING PICTUREVACHEL LINDSAYObediently, the fanatic began to mouth Holy Writ in orotund.
WHEN EGYPT WENT BROKEHOLMAN DAYAt once Serrano's orotund Italian voice shot out into the crowd.
MOUNTAINCLEMENT WOODWORDS RELATED TO OROTUND
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- orotund
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- grandiloquent
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- imperious
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- orotund
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- self-centered
- self-important
- selfish
- showy
- sonorous
- stuck-up
- supercilious
- turgid
- uppity
- vain
- vainglorious
- windy
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