Hoarse
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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.
When he reappeared he struck lightly with his fist to call for attention; then he began in a
hoarse
voice:"Citizens!"
As he had no bell he struck his fist on the table, repeating in his
hoarse
voice:"Citizens, citizens!"
His voice sounded painful and hoarse; but he was used to it on his journeys, and took his laryngitis about with him like his programme.
Those who wished to work stood with their lamps, barefooted, with shovel or pick beneath their arms; while the others, still in their sabots, with their overcoats on their shoulders because of the great cold, were barring the shaft; and the captains were growing
hoarse
in the effort to restore order, begging them to be reasonable and not to prevent those who wanted from going down.
Jeanlin had found a horn and was blowing it, producing
hoarse
sounds, as though he were gathering oxen together.
At last he conquered himself; he threw the knife behind him, stammering in a
hoarse
voice:"Get up--off you go!"
with bent back and
hoarse
respiration accompanying the rumble of the ventilator?
Often in the thicket was heard the fluttering of wings, or else the hoarse, soft cry of the ravens flying off amidst the oaks.
You ought to have heard, on this topic, the wealthy calico printers, who, morning, noon and night, used to talk themselves
hoarse
in preaching equality.
In the morning you are all three speechless, owing to having caught severe colds in the night; you also feel very quarrelsome, and you swear at each other in
hoarse
whispers during the whole of breakfast time.
"By hell, he's off!" cried the leader,
hoarse
with rage and exhaustion.
Two
hoarse
whispers delivered the same awful word simultaneously to the brooding night: "_Blood_!"
Tom whooped until he was hoarse, but it was of no use.
And as he spoke there came the low grumbling of a cannonade away somewhere to the east of us, deep and hoarse, like the roar of some blood-daubed beast that thrives on the lives of men.
Laurent also recovered his previous merriment, returning to his coarse peasant jests, his
hoarse
laughter, his practical jokes of a former canvas dauber.
When she wanted to cry out and call for help, she could only splutter a few
hoarse
sounds.
Low words and
hoarse
laughter reached Laurent, who remained motionless in a doorway on the opposite side of the street.
For, though it be to solitudes remote the
hoarse
vague echoes of my sorrows sound thy matchless cruelty, my dismal fate shall carry them to all the spacious world.
Approaching them, the youth greeted them in a harsh and
hoarse
voice but with great courtesy.
He came up with the procession and reined in Rocinante, who was already anxious enough to slacken speed a little, and in a hoarse, excited voice he exclaimed, "You who hide your faces, perhaps because you are not good subjects, pay attention and listen to what I am about to say to you."
He came up at last weary and breathless, and planting himself in front of the bridal pair, drove his staff, which had a steel spike at the end, into the ground, and, with a pale face and eyes fixed on Quiteria, he thus addressed her in a hoarse, trembling voice:"Well dost thou know, ungrateful Quiteria, that according to the holy law we acknowledge, so long as live thou canst take no husband; nor art thou ignorant either that, in my hopes that time and my own exertions would improve my fortunes, I have never failed to observe the respect due to thy honour; but thou, casting behind thee all thou owest to my true love, wouldst surrender what is mine to another whose wealth serves to bring him not only good fortune but supreme happiness; and now to complete it (not that I think he deserves it, but inasmuch as heaven is pleased to bestow it upon him), I will, with my own hands, do away with the obstacle that may interfere with it, and remove myself from between you.
So they returned disconsolate and
hoarse
to their village, where they told their friends, neighbours, and acquaintances what had befallen them in their search for the ass, each crying up the other's perfection in braying.
In their fear, silence fell upon them, and a postillion, in the guise of a demon, passed in front of them, blowing, in lieu of a bugle, a huge hollow horn that gave out a horrible
hoarse
note.
She then, kneeling on the ground, said in a voice
hoarse
and rough, rather than fine and delicate, "May it please your highnesses not to offer such courtesies to this your servant, I should say to this your handmaid, for I am in such distress that I shall never be able to make a proper return, because my strange and unparalleled misfortune has carried off my wits, and I know not whither; but it must be a long way off, for the more I look for them the less I find them."
When eleven o'clock came, Don Quixote found a guitar in his chamber; he tried it, opened the window, and perceived that some persons were walking in the garden; and having passed his fingers over the frets of the guitar and tuned it as well as he could, he spat and cleared his chest, and then with a voice a little
hoarse
but full-toned, he sang the following ballad, which he had himself that day composed:Mighty Love the hearts of maidensDoth unsettle and perplex,And the instrument he usesMost of all is idleness.
There were sentries posted to keep the ground for the troops, and servants on the batteries keeping places for the ladies, and sergeants running to and fro, with vellum-covered books under their arms, and Colonel Bulder, in full military uniform, on horseback, galloping first to one place and then to another, and backing his horse among the people, and prancing, and curvetting, and shouting in a most alarming manner, and making himself very
hoarse
in the voice, and very red in the face, without any assignable cause or reason whatever.
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