stentorious
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Now 51, he is a strapping, stentorious charmer who has never let his spiritual calling inhibit his fun-loving ways.
From Time Magazine Archive
And indeed, as it turned out, about ten that night the Colonel's loud and stentorious breathing began to fail slowly.
From What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen
Come, gentlemen guests, you are as welcome as the showers," says Marston, in a stentorious voice: "Be seated; you are at home under my roof.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
"Are you mad?" demanded the lady in almost stentorious accents, "or is this an unmanly hoax?"
From The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales by Bret Harte
He saw every prospect of realizing the fond dream of his ambition when once again a call of duty to serve God's humble children came in stentorious tones.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
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