Hoarse
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From the tangle of scrub and brushwood at the far end of the lake broke forth a
hoarse
barking cough that filled the hills with desolation as water brims a cup.
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The voice was rather hoarse, a bit affectedly posh, honking, loud and rather braying it was not unique for its time, it was the voice of the older actress or gregarious hostess and with her almost clown-like make-up (I recall her face looking white with make-up)combined to be her instantly recognisable trade-mark.
Knowing all this, Levin suffered much as he saw that look full of entreaty and hope, that emaciated hand lifted with effort, in making the sign of the cross, to touch the drawn skin of the forehead, the protruding shoulder-blades and the hollow
hoarse
chest which could no longer contain that life for which the invalid was praying.
He heard his horses chewing hay; then how the master and his eldest son got ready and rode away for the night to pasture their horses; then how the soldier settled down to sleep on the other side of the barn with his nephew, their host's little son; he heard the boy in his treble voice imparting to his uncle his impressions of the dogs, which seemed to him terrible and enormous; then how the boy asked what those dogs were going to catch, and he heard how the soldier replied in a
hoarse
and sleepy voice that the sportsmen would go next day to the marshes and fire guns, adding, to stop the questioning: 'Sleep, Vaska, sleep, or else look out!'Soon the soldier himself began to snore, and all was still except for the neighing of the horses and the cry of snipe.
He could not hear distinctly because of the stertorous and
hoarse
breathing of one nobleman near him and the creaking of the stout shoes of another.
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