The hopeless, huddled attitude of tramps in doorways; the flinching gait of barefoot children on the icy pavement; the sheen of the rainy streets towards afternoon; the meagreanatomy of the poor defined by the clinging of wet garments; the high canorous note of the ❋ Unknown (2005)
The dull life at Oxford was varied by the occasional visit of a mesmeric lecturer; and one youth caused peals of canorous laughter by walking round in a pretended mesmeric sleep and kissing the pretty daughters of the dons. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The groom was in the utmost alarm, both on his own account and on mine, but, in spite of this, so irresistibly had the sense of the ludicrous in this unhappy contretemps taken possession of his fancy, that he sang out a long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter, that might have wakened the Seven Sleepers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
We presume that there was nothing whatever to have prevented him from concocting as many ballads as he chose; or from engaging, as engines of popular promulgation, the ancestors of those unshaven and raucous gentlemen, to whose canorous mercies we are wont, in times of political excitement, to intrust our own personal and patriotic ditties. ❋ Various (N/A)
Have you a friend in the army, especially one who sings occasionally, or if he be not canorous, say a friend who likes to read songs and hear them sung by others? ❋ Various (N/A)
The language, which is derived chiefly from Latin, is thence in such a way derived as to have lost the regularity and stateliness of its ancient original, without having compensated itself with any richness and sweetness of sound peculiarly its own; like, for instance, that canorous vowel quality of its sister derivative, the Italian. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)
In a twinkling his rifle was at his shoulder, and through the wild canorous note of the wind, Stane caught his hail. ❋ Ottwell Binns (N/A)
Yet here and there, through the ghostly twilight, comes the sound of some clear voice that has defied the courses of the years and the mutations of taste; and we hear the rich canorous tones of Gluck, not, perhaps, with all the vigour and the passion that once was theirs, but with the mellowed splendour given by the touch of time. ❋ Walter Rowlands (N/A)
She would solicit thus, canorous of phrase, a fan of her cardboard likenesses held out, invitational. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)
But the other Paris, the Paris of the canorous night, the Paris of the ❋ George Jean Nathan (1920)
Then, like a rumble of thunder, heard we a canorous roar. ❋ Unknown (1916)
His engines had frightened her with their canorous roar. ❋ Unknown (1916)
Sometimes we skirted a cypress swamp and saw the shallow black water with blacker trees reflected upon its bosom, and heard the frogs 'canorous quarrelings, and the stealthy rustlings of creatures of the dark. ❋ Marie Conway Oemler (1905)
Then there came a canorous snarl of bass, and then, abruptly, with resistless charm, and with full-bodied, satisfying amplitude of volume the opening movement of the overture of "Carmen." ❋ Unknown (1903)
For my punishment -- though I helped not to erect them, -- hideous hotels thrust themselves insistently on my sight as I walk our magnificent northern cliffs, and with the thought of that drain leading down to Arthur's cove I am haunted by the vision of Merlin erect above it, and by the memory of Hawker's canorous lines: -- ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
The solemnity of those prolonged, canorous syllables: "I require and charge you both, as ye shall answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed," weighed down upon her spirits with an almost intolerable majesty. ❋ Unknown (1903)
There is a more canorous and horn-like quality to the crowing of Gildersleeve's rooster, and his hens chant cheerily as they kick the litter about. ❋ Eugene Wood (1891)
The graceful trio and canorous brilliancy of this dance make it a favored number. ❋ James Huneker (1890)
"You hear that new Canor song? It's almost TOO good!"
"Man, that is one impressive pizza. That [is is] like, the Canor of [pizzas]."
"[Oh, yeah], those guys are alright. They're no Canor though." ❋ JunkFoodie (2009)
