The ordinary, hurried, barking unmelodious movement of the voices would at times be broken and glorified by a psalm-like strain of melody, often well constructed, or seeming so by contrast.
So much the more vivid was the impression that we carried away of the house upon the islet, the Micronesian Saul wakeful amid his guards, and his unmelodious David, Mr. Williams, chattering through the drowsy hours.
Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
On a warm day in winter they are occasionally heard attempting to sing, the bird darting up vertically into the air and pouring out with great energy a confused torrent of unmelodious sounds.
They are not ashamed to introduce their unmelodious calls into the avian chorus.
Their loud resonant but unmelodious calls make it possible to recognise them when they are too far off for the white tail band to be distinguished.
The not unmelodious chant in which she delivered her admonitions rang out, at times, like the peal of a trumpet.
She shrieked and struggled, while the soldier, probably with intent to soothe her, kept pouring in her ear an uninterrupted stream of words in unmelodious German.
Assuredly any person to whom Wagner's music, especially that of Tristan, appears unmelodious is unmusical, or at least defective in the sense for melody.
The notion that Wagner's music is unmelodious had its origin in the bad musical ears of his early critics.
When the wine was beginning to tell on them, they began a rough andunmelodious singing.
Stella at once went to the piano in the day-nursery and began to play her most unmelodious tune.
He learned to paint texts and to keep his pencil-box tidy and to play the treble of a very unmelodious duet with Miss Hunt, in whose bony fingers his own fingers would from time to time get entangled.
From far down it, nearer the town, came the unmelodious hee-haw of a concertina played regardless of its keys.
They are here called "Quaich-quaich," from their strange loud voice, which seems to repeat these words in various and not unmelodious intonations.
Even such as might be called monotonous and unmelodious are none the less significant and welcome.
They have served us these many years--the sweet singers, the true birds of paradise, with power to lift us from our dull, unmelodious thoughts into their harmonious world.
