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And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice. - Bible, I Kings (ch. XIX, v. 12) For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. - Bible, Matthew (ch. III, v. 3) Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words. - Robert Browning, Flight of the Duchess (st. 15) The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XI, st. 13) His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife. - Charles Churchill, Rosciad (l. 1,003) He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 414), (Pope's translation) The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense. - Ben Jonson, Eupheme (IV) Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches The innermost recesses of my spirit! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus (pt. I, The Divine Tragedy, The First Passover, pt. VI) Thy voice Is a celestial melody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora (pt. V) Her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird, Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spirit of Poetry (l. 55) How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks, It ravishes all senses. - Philip Massinger, The Old Law (act IV, sc. 2, l. 34) The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 1) His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. - Dorothy Rothchild Parker (Mrs. Alan Campbell) A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.) - Plutarch, Laconic Apothegms, credited to Lacon "Incert. XIII" by Lipsius Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together. - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel (st. 10) A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt. - George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Armandine Lucile Dupon Dudevant), Handsome Lawrence (ch. III) The voice is nothing but beaten air. [Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Naturalinum Quoestionum (bk. II) I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us; but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale. - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii) I thank you for your voices, thank you! Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices, I have no further with you. - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, iii) Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at V, iii) And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. - James Thomson (1), Castle of Indolence (canto I, st. 20) My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (II, 774) Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice. - William Wordsworth, Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
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