At one end of the scale there was the raucousbronchial strain produced by the unwieldy Cochin.
I laughed at the fancy, and looked up at the raucous sound of my own voice, to find Barreau scowling blackly--at the sound, I thought.
Chapter XII Finnerty had slept an hour when he was wakened by the raucous voice of a peacock greeting dawn with his unpleasant call from high up in the sal forest.
The raucous shouts and cries of sailors and watermen came to their ears, with now and then a snatch of song from the decks of some tall, four-masted freighter.
The raucous toot of a motor horn brought both the girls to their feet with a startled exclamation.
In hoarse, raucoustones he shouted after the fleeing man: "Stop!
Suddenly, there came to his ears the voices of women, mingled with Broom's suppressed but always raucous tones.
But Franky pushed past her and opened the door, and sang out, in his raucous voice: "Hullo, mummer!
Mamie echoed him in her equallyraucous voice, full of dissonances.
Out of the storm a voice raucous and profane came to them faintly.
The sting of the spur made the animal bound forward, and the next instant a raucous oath broke from Crispin as the nag floundered and dropped on its knees.
And above all rang out the fierce, raucous blasphemy of the slayers, and the shrieks of agony, the groans, the prayers, and curses of their victims.
He sent another, and yet a third, guzzling to the bottom before the outburst of raucous cries from both banks showed there were Indians here in some force.
Though the raucous notes of the tuneless lay could be heard plainly enough, they did not reach her ears.
And his ears scarcely heard the raucous scolding of the blue-jay in the fire-tipped crest of the tall black spruce.
And he heard more clearly theraucous tumult of the jay and the musical chattering of the red squirrels.
The loon forgot his love-sickness, and screamed raucous defiance at the moon.
The lighthouse syren roars a warning of shoal-water out on the landward beam, a raucous discord of two weird notes.
The man and woman could quite plainly hear the raucous and bestial snoring of some half-dozen of the gorged Things.
Afar, on the walls, the faint and raucousquarreling of the sea-birds drifted through the fog.
Street venders howled their wares in raucous voices that added to the unintelligible clamors of the old highways that were wont to be so dull and quiet and decorous.
These casualties and the attendant noise, the heavy tramp of booted feet, the raucous sonority of their voices as they called suggestions to each other, all intensified the terror, the tumult of their uncontrolled and turbulent presence.
There was a raucous yelling from the gateman, a monstrous rending of metal and jangling of broken glass.
The millionaire, who had entered the menagerie unheard, spoke sternly to the girl in his own raucous tongue and pointed a peremptory finger toward the door through which she had come.
The chauffeur screamed in a high and peculiarly raucous voice and jerked away, jabbering in a vowelless and totally unfamiliar foreign tongue.
In imagination I pierce the distance and see the red panting throat of that long-necked voyageur as he turns to shout back raucous encouragement to his long, sky-clinging V.
There is something more, citizen Roger," said a raucous voice close to his ear.
The next moment the darkness became alive with men moving quickly forward, and raucous shouts of "Where are they?
Outside we could hear Laporte's raucous voice speaking to the guard.
Go back to bed, citizen," the odious creature said, with a raucous laugh.
He never moved for twenty-four hours; there were occasional spasms of suffocation and a raucous sound in his breathing: that was all.
Simon Gosler thrashed around with the club laying it about him on the floor, narrowly missing several times, and yelling at the top of his raucous lungs for companions to help him.
This conversation was suddenly interrupted by a long succession of raucous honks up the road, and in a few seconds a car swung around the corner of the house and stopped before the verandah.
On a bough of a near-by tree a squirrel was scolding, and off in the distance several crows were lifting up their raucous voices.
Scarcely had these words left his lips ere a raucous honk up the road startled him.
He lowered his voice to a hoarse, raucous whisper and went on.
Far off in the fields beyond the wood I heard a corncrake rasping out his raucous notes.
There was more of earnestness than of melody in the singing, but suddenly I was aware of one voice that sounded clear and bell-like among the jumble of raucous notes.
One laugh, a great raucous bellow, dominated all the rest.
We heard doors opening along the hall, and a high, raucous voice invoked quiet in none too polite phrase.
The noise suddenly subsided at the screeching of a raucous nasal voice.
The effect of that raucous shriek was as solemn, as awe-inspiring, for the first moment, as the ringing of the Angelus bell in a Catholic country-side.
She seemed about to say more, her lips had already opened, when suddenly the dull raucous blast of the foghorn (they used a raucous one on this ship on purpose) cut the night air.
