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Stentorian
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stentorian
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Adjective
en stentorian.
en 1771 April A Candidate Doctor of Oddities pseudonym To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine The Town and Country Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment III London Printed for Archibald Hamilton, Junr.near Sᵗ. John’s-Gate. 202 https://archive.org/details/sim_town-and-country-magazine-or-universal-repository_1771-04_3/page/202/mode/1up 1 931171781 Neither is eloquence or rhetoric unclaimed by him: he perſuaded with Stentorian loquacity, and convinces by the irreſiſtible powers of a bellowing horſe laugh.
en 1817 Samuel Stanhope Smith; et al. Battle of Queenstown; Cannonading from Erie to Ontario;Captain Lyon Captures Forty British Soldiers on St. Regis; Colonel Pike’s Incursion; General Smyth Assumes the Command on the Niagara; Incursion from Black Rock, &c. David Ramsay; S. S. Smith; et al. History of the United States, from Their First Settlement as English Colonies, in 1607, to the Year 1808, or the Thirty-Third of Their Sovereignty and Independence. By David Ramsay, M. D. Continued to the Treaty of Ghent,by S. S. Smith, D. D. and L. L. D.[,] and Other Literary Gentlemen. In Three Volumes. III Philadelphia, Pa. Published by Mathew Carey,for the sole benefit of the heirs of the author. 204 https://archive.org/details/historyofuniteds03rams/page/204/mode/1up 863168068 Lieut. Col. Charles Bœrstler, exerting a Stentorian voice, roared in various directions as though he commanded thousands, and created such a panic in the enemy, that they fled before him whereever he moved.
en 1766 The History Returns to Charles. He Is Introduced to a Numerous Company.Meets an Old Acquaintance. Character of a Misanthrope. Night Adventures. The Wanderer: or, Memoirs of Charles Searle, Esq;Containing His Adventures by Sea and Land. With Many Remarkable Characters, and Interesting Situations in Real Life; and a Variety of Surprizing Incidents. In Two Volumes. I London Printed for Thomas Lowndes,at his Circulating Library in Fleet-street. 216–217 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-wanderer-or-memoir_1766_1/page/217/mode/1up 16111785 But Ramble, who was remarkable for his Stentorian faculties, riſing, put an end to the diſpute, by roaring out the burleſque on the Attic Fire, in a voice Stentor himſelf need not have been aſhamed to own.
en fr 1887 1896 w:Edmond de Goncourt; w:Jules de Goncourt Robert Ricatte Journal: Mémoires de la vie littéraire 1887–1896 16 Monaco Editions de l’Imprimerie nationale de Monaco 1956–1958 31 https://books.google.com/books?id=CqHU1V9RDkcC&q=Stentorian 277743455 Applying the law of the case to our present argument, the section to be interpreted overrides in Stentorian voice, any contentions to the contrary.
en 1994 Hamilton Crane pseudonym; Sarah J. Mason 32 Miss Seeton Undercover w:Miss Seeton 17 New York, N.Y. Berkley Prime Crime 256 https://archive.org/details/missseetonunderc00cran/page/256/mode/1up 0-425-14137-3 And she pondered the first of Miss Seeton’s sketches, the one Delphick had been coerced into showing her: the sleek cat reflected in the mirror, with the ram—the ram from the wrong, confusing case—beneath it on the bonnet of the Rolls-Royce in which Ferencz Szabo, of the Stentorian voice, rode so proudly.
en 2000 James B. Cash Preamble: I. Genesis Playing Through (Pronounced Thruff) the Rough (Pronounced Ruff): An Irrelevant History of Golf(e), Sort Of; or, Scotland, Shakespeare, and Golf(e) Kettering, Oh. Carney, Cole Publishing Company 7 https://archive.org/details/playingthroughro0000cash/page/7/mode/1up 0-925436-20-8 The Stentorian voice spoke out again: I said, LET THERE BE GOLF!