hoarse

• If a child comes to school heavy-eyed, hoarse, and snuffling, the teacher should send him home at once. —  Preventable Diseases
• He shouted until he was hoarse--it was crying aloud in a desert. —  Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
• Had I received such news the captain might have hallooed till he was hoarse, and the ship might have tumbled overboard before I should have roused myself. —  Jacob Faithful
• But after it had talked itself hoarse, the Assembly had to descend to the prosaic business of legislation, and in dealing with the mines, as in dealing with other matters, it made a muddle of the laws which existed before it met, and left this muddle to be resolved into a new order of things legal, under the presiding genius of Napoleon Under the ancien régime the rights of the feudal lords of the land over the mines beneath the soil had been contested by the steadily increasing power of the sovereign. —  France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
• The grasshoppers chirped themselves hoarse, and filled the country with their shrill noise, which was like that of the wooden crickets which are sold to children at fair time The doctor raised his voice and said: "Honorι, you cannot leave your mother in this state; she may die at any moment." —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories

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