Reading him was like being in church with a strident-voiced preacher shouting from out of a terribly sonorous pulpit.

There are fine passages in Dryden's heroic plays, passages weighty in thought and nobly sonorous in language.

They wish to keep them poor!" Mariano heard a metallic clatter, and saw the shoemaker raise his hand armed with the bunch of keys which had fallen on the marble steps of the railing, then he heard a strangely sonorous sound, as if something hollow was being struck.