220 Metaphors for voicing

"I mean the voice is no good to that kind of a man, it's no good to anybody.

" The voice was not the kind of voice Mr. Tutt had imagined as belonging to Sadie Burch.

A voice within awoke and cried: In sooth, There is no need of sorrow, care, and strife; For all that women beauty call, and truth, Is but a glow from hearts with fancy rife, Passing away with slowly fading youth.

His voice is the most refined and the tones are deep.

The voice is the essential element in singing.

A tearful voice is a grave defect, and must be avoided.

" Her voice was as matter of fact as if she were describing a visit to the family butcher shop.

man needs not us His secret merits to discuss, Or spy out his transgression; When once he feels his conscience stirr'd, That voice within him is the bird That moves him to confession.

And is it not, moreover, the voice of Nature, the murmur of wind and tree, the thrill of all the dropping influences of the heavens, the medium of spiritual communication, the universal language in which all can exchange thought and feeling, and through which the whole world becomes one nation?

Though he is contemptuously styled the "Chipping-Sparrow,"a name which I will never consent to apply to him,his voice is no mean accompaniment to the general chorus which may be heard every still morning before sunrise, during May and June.

" Suddenly a rich bass voice, strong in conviction, trumpeted forth"I am the resurrection and the life!"

Not all the voices that call men from place to place are audible ones.

Your voice is the color of a robin's breast, And there's a sweet sob in it like rainstill rain in the night.

Fling a glance at France; peer into Prussia, Vox populi is the voice of the King, and the voice of the king is therefore vox Dei.

His voice was a cringing whine; his eyes groveled.

And their voice was a yell of triumph that was taken up in two directions outside the hotel.

My voice they delight in; but yoursyours is a perfect nuisance.

The voice that we had heard was unquestionably Yolanda's, but by what strange power it was enabled to penetrate our rock-ribbed prison and give tongues to the cold stones I could not guess, though I could not stop trying.

The voice of Mr. Sylvanus Power was no small thing, and he was conscious that several of the officials of the place, and the man in the box office, had heard every word that had passed.

He tried to cry out again, but something rose in his throat and choked him until his voice was only a gasp.

For me to hear forgotten noises in the Strand? Insidious voice that will not grant my plea, The mem'ry of thy pleasures dost remain: Oxonian-Cantabs club; blue-lit Gaiety!'

At first I could distinguish nothing, and, thinking it was the captain and a sailor disputing, I continued my toilet; when, suddenly, a piercing cry reached me, and I knew the voice to be Frederic's.

The hand is that of ANN BRUMMET, the poor relation, and the voice that breaks on his ear is also the property of that extraordinary woman.

To the anxious mother, the first voice of her child is, doubtless, the sweetest music she ever heard; and the more loudly it peals, the greater should be her joy, as it is an indication of health and strength, and not only shows the perfect expansion of the lungs, but that the process of life has set in with vigour.

Voice, gesture, expression of countenance, and all action, are companions of eloquence; and the guardian of all these things is memory.

220 Metaphors for  voicing