mellifluent

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Sparicio lifted a huge conch-shell from the deck, put it to his lips, filled his deep lungs, and flung out into the night--thrice--a profound, mellifluent, booming horn-tone.

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  1. adjective Mellifluous.

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  • Michael Feast … His killingly exact observation - the very tilt of his head, the mellifluent voice, the sly twinkle - compensates for his over-shortness of stature, while
  • As Mikal Gilmore noted in Rolling Stone Magazine, Marley, through his "mellifluent insurgency … made hell tuneful" … as he sang about "how hell on earth comes too easily to too many." —  Jamaica - Full Feed
  • Mr. Jones in his language (in this piece) does not affect being very poetical;--nor is his verification always mellifluent, as in his other writings;--but it is well adapted for speaking: The design is well conducted, the story rises regularly, the business is not suspended, and the characters are well sustained 5. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III
  • Add the Orator M. Cornelius Cethegus, so much admired for his mellifluent tongue; who was the colleague of Tuditanus, and the son of Marcus He expressly calls him an Orator_, you see, and attributes to him a remarkable sweetness of elocution; which, even now a-days, is an excellence of which few are possessed: for some of our modern Orators are so insufferably harsh, that they may rather be said to bark than to speak. —  Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
  • Sparicio lifted a huge conch-shell from the deck, put it to his lips, filled his deep lungs, and flung out into the night--thrice--a profound, mellifluent, booming horn-tone. —  Chita: a Memory of Last Island
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  1. = Old French mellifluant, from Latin mellifluen(t-)s, flowing with honey, from mel (mell-), honey, + fluen(t-)s, present participle of fluere, flow: see fluent.
 

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