Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sound or sounding of a trumpet; hence, a loud voice: generally in the plural: as, proclaim the truth in trumpet-tones.
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Examples
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First, there was an explosion of gutturals, and then came a loud trumpet-tone, something like the _Honk! honk!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various
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No one could have expected the Pope, who has spiritual children in all lands, to take sides in an international dispute; but one would have thought that a divinely-given infallibility would have denounced, with the trumpet-tone of Sinai, the orgies of sexual and sacrilegious crime which have devastated Belgium.
Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Springing to her feet, she waved her sceptre, while her black eyes flashed as fiercely as the best of them, and her voice rang out like a trumpet-tone.
The Midnight Queen May Agnes Fleming 1860
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To contend with this carnal orchestra, the religious world, having long ago rejected its Catholic Psalms as antiquated and unscientific, and finding its Puritan melodies sunk into faint jar and twangle from their native trumpet-tone, had nothing to oppose but the innocent, rather than religious, verses of the school recognised as that of the English
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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And your rigorous Quartermaster spurs; awakening hoarse trumpet-tone, as here at Clermont, calling out Dragoons gone to bed.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Not one, but many echoes had caught up the harsh and tuneless sound, untwisted its complicated threads, and found a thousand aerial harmonies in one stern trumpet-tone.
Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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