How To Use canorous In A Sentence
- Astounding, canorous, enchanting, alembicated and dramatic, the Chopin studies are exemplary essays in emotion and manner. Chopin : the Man and His Music
- The groom was in the utmost alarm, both on his own account and on mine, but, in spite of this, so irresistibly had the sense of the ludicrous in this unhappy contretemps taken possession of his fancy, that he sang out a long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter, that might have wakened the Seven Sleepers. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- The dull life at Oxford was varied by the occasional visit of a mesmeric lecturer; and one youth caused peals of canorous laughter by walking round in a pretended mesmeric sleep and kissing the pretty daughters of the dons. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
- In a twinkling his rifle was at his shoulder, and through the wild canorous note of the wind, Stane caught his hail. A Mating in the Wilds
- She would solicit thus, canorous of phrase, a fan of her cardboard likenesses held out, invitational. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
- But the other Paris, the Paris of the canorous night, the Paris of the Europe After 8:15
- The hopeless, huddled attitude of tramps in doorways; the flinching gait of barefoot children on the icy pavement; the sheen of the rainy streets towards afternoon; the meagreanatomy of the poor defined by the clinging of wet garments; the high canorous note of the Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
- We presume that there was nothing whatever to have prevented him from concocting as many ballads as he chose; or from engaging, as engines of popular promulgation, the ancestors of those unshaven and raucous gentlemen, to whose canorous mercies we are wont, in times of political excitement, to intrust our own personal and patriotic ditties. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
- Yet here and there, through the ghostly twilight, comes the sound of some clear voice that has defied the courses of the years and the mutations of taste; and we hear the rich canorous tones of Gluck, not, perhaps, with all the vigour and the passion that once was theirs, but with the mellowed splendour given by the touch of time. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
- Have you a friend in the army, especially one who sings occasionally, or if he be not canorous, say a friend who likes to read songs and hear them sung by others? The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
