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It was not much — just a sub-whisper, a hint of unvocal, but I listened.

DarklyDreamingDexter 2004

It was not much — just a sub-whisper, a hint of unvocal, but I listened.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter Lindsay, Jeff 2004

In both species, the larger and the smaller, it is the male that sings, and the female that is unvocal.

The History of Animals 2002

I find everywhere a great determination to make the war go; yet somehow, unvocal, men talk about it everywhere, in the streets and the clubs and the railways.

Facing the Facts of the Present Situation 1917

In the second-story front room at Mrs. McKee's, the barytone slept heavily, and made divers unvocal sounds.

K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

This class, which has profited more than any other from the British regime, which has, under that regime, known for the first time justice, freedom from tyranny, and the opportunity of enjoying a fair share of the fruits of its own labour, is as yet unvocal.

The Expansion of Europe Ramsay Muir 1906

Even in the 'sixties, when nothing later than _Lohengrin_ was known, the charge was brought against the composer that his music was unvocal and could not be sung

Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891

Does not this show, once and for all, that this style of singing (which still has numerous admirers) is instrumental, is unvocal, unsuited to the human voice, and should be abandoned forever?

Chopin and Other Musical Essays Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

The very word _cantabile_ emphasizes, by antithesis, the unvocal character of the old florid style.

Chopin and Other Musical Essays Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

Bennett was a bitter opponent of Wagner; but in the unvocal and declamatory character of this solo, and in the dramatic force he has given to it, to the sacrifice of melody, he certainly ventured some distance in the Wagnerian direction.

The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876