mezzo

• I started as a mezzo-soprano, and then, with training, extended my upper register. —  McNab, Claire - [Ashton -5] Dead Certain
• Sette e mezzo, and I'll put down the stakes. —  The Call of the Blood
• She was elegant in figure, handsome of face, had an amiable disposition, a ringing mezzo-soprano, with a compass from B-flat to G in altissimo, and was renowned for her brilliant execution, distinct enunciation, beautiful shake, happy memory for embellishments and fine expression However pleased the directors may have been at first to have two popular songstresses, they were soon dismayed at the fierce rivalry that sprang up between them and was fanned to flames by Master Handel himself, who now composed exclusively for Faustina. —  For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
• Her voice, a mezzo-soprano, at first unequal, weak, of slender range and lacking flexibility, acquired, through her wonderful genius and industry a range of two octaves and a half, reaching D in altissimo, together with a sweetness, a fluency, and a chaste, expressive style. —  For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
• Note also in this chapel mezzo-relievo effigy to William Curll, Esq. (d. 1617), with inscription, almost illegible, to the effect that he was a most Christian knight who died in hope of a joyful resurrection On the opposite (S.) —  Hertfordshire

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