"Mellifluous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... no further protest; but greeted my desertion with a mellifluous laugh, which made me more uncomfortable than a ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
... moved the Count's persuasive hand was laid on his shoulder, and the Count's mellifluous voice ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... conquest of Jerusalem, with other divers works and books, I ne wist what work to begin and put forth after the said works to-fore made. And forasmuch as idleness is so much blamed, as saith Saint Bernard, the mellifluous doctor, that she is mother of lies and step-dame of virtues, and it is she that overthroweth strong men into sin, quencheth virtue, nourisheth pride, and maketh the way ready to go to hell; and John Cassiodorus saith that the thought of him that ...
— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various
... that I could reply to you in kind, but alas and alack! the gift divine has been denied me. My Nancy comes to me tomorrow—Praise be to Allah! and I shall duly, and in appropriate and prideful language, I trust, present her with your mellifluous lines. ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... the street, he asked himself whether he might not have been rather less respectful. He went over in memory those strange confidences—which have, naturally, been much abridged here, for they needed a volume to convey their mellifluous abundance and the graces which accompanied them. The retrospective perspicacity of this man, so natural, so profound, was baffled by the candor of that tale and its poignancy, and by the ...
— The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan • Honore de Balzac
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