"Loud-voiced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... once. Tom answered, yes or no,—with his eyes down. I liked the way he stood, though, so unconsciously erect and steady. The other men who came in afterwards, with easy greetings and noisy talk, somehow seemed loud-voiced and self-assertive. ...
— The Hohenzollerns in America - With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and other impossibilities • Stephen Leacock
... So saying, the Goddess took her sable veil (Eye ne'er beheld a darker) and began Her progress, by the storm-wing'd Iris led. On either hand the billows open'd wide A pass before them; they, ascending soon 125 The shore, updarted swift into the skies. They found loud-voiced Saturnian Jove around Environ'd by the ever-blessed Gods Convened in full assembly; she beside Her Father Jove (Pallas retiring) sat. 130 Then, Juno, with consolatory speech, Presented to her hand a golden cup, Of which she drank, then gave it back again, And ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... fear nor favour won us place, Got between greed of gold and dread of drouth, Loud-voiced and reckless as the wild tide-race That whips ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling
... him, cautious, concerned, the young man suddenly hurried down the street. He wanted no more parley with this loud-voiced avenging maiden. His fear came back upon him in double force, and he was seen to glance at his watch and quicken his pace almost to a run as though a forgotten engagement had suddenly come to mind. Miranda, scowling, stood and watched ...
— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... to contrast our folly with their wisdom. Here is one pushing by who will not be a fool, as he thinks—he's for the emigrant-ship. Ask yourself if the people who go out from the remote places of Ireland, quiet-spoken and ruddy-faced, and return after a few years loud-voiced and pallid, have found things exactly as their hope. They protest, yes; but their voice and colour belie them. Take the other man who does not emigrate but who has his fling at home, who "knocks around" and tells you to do likewise and be no fool—mark him for your ...
— Principles of Freedom • Terence J. MacSwiney
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