stentorious

Example Sentences

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Now 51, he is a strapping, stentorious charmer who has never let his spiritual calling inhibit his fun-loving ways.

From Time Magazine Archive

And indeed, as it turned out, about ten that night the Colonel's loud and stentorious breathing began to fail slowly.

From What's Bred in the Bone by Allen, Grant

Come, gentlemen guests, you are as welcome as the showers," says Marston, in a stentorious voice: "Be seated; you are at home under my roof.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

Presently a large, portly-looking man, dressed like as Yorkshire farmer, came, to the bank, and in a stentorious voice ordered the captain to haul into the creek at once!

From Manuel Pereira by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

Later, when the dance-hall became the theatre of Barkerville, James Anderson used to sing his rhymes to the stentorious shouting and loud stamping of the shirt-sleeved audience.

From The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)