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"Huskiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... to a softer tone. The resolution which had brought her thither returned. She stood up under the dome of pines and began softly to sing, trying her voice first in single tones, then a scale or two, a trill. At first her voice was not clear, but as she continued it emerged from its sheath of huskiness clear and flutelike, and liquid as the notes of the thrushes that inhabited the wood. The pleasure of the exercise grew, and presently, warbling her songs there in the otherwise silent forest, Agatha became conscious of a strange accompaniment. Pausing a moment, she perceived that the grove was ...

— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

... walking to and fro and came to a halt behind his friend's chair, looking down compassionately upon the back of Ramsey's motionless head. His tone changed. "I guess it isn't just the ticket—me to be talking this way to you, is it?" he said, with a trace of huskiness. ...

— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington

... wish," said he, but his livid face and staring eyes belied the valour of his words. He cleared his huskiness from his throat. "Sir Rowland," said he, "will ...

— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini

... looked away at the sea. When he resumed there was a suspicious huskiness in his voice. "Seems to me that as far as you are concerned, nature has punished you about enough. You ought to know by this time what interfering with the radio wave lengths belonging to sea traffic might mean to shipwrecked men; and—well—Oh, what's the use!" ...

— Curlie Carson Listens In • Roy J. Snell

... bear it?" asked Annon, as the major shook his gray head, with a traitorous huskiness ...

— The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation • A. M. Barnard

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