Loud

Examples

• It comes this way--comes very faSt. How loud sounds its rattle on the paved path! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was a loud report and echoed and rattled heavily. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Out loud I said, Tell the Count Greffi I will be in the billiard-room at five o'clock. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He whistled shrill and loud. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The poor creature interrupted me with loud sobs, which produced such a dreadful fit of coughing, I thought that she would have expired on the spot. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The whole family were quick, brisk, loud-talking, kind-hearted, and not troubled with much delicacy of perception. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• They were very glad to set the chair down, and give a good round loud double-knock at the street door. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Hard, loud, vain and vulgar, her mind and body alike seemed brazen and imperishable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At this moment the noise grew louder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• She might talk on; and if he wanted to say any thing himself, he would only talk louder, and drown her voice. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Repeat your words louder, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Regarded from this point of view Mr Pancks's puffings expressed injury and impatience, and each of his louder snorts became a demand for payment. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As evening drew in, the storm grew higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The day I mean, said Yeobright, his voice growing louder and harsher, was the day you shut the door against my mother and killed her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Then Churchill would take a peep at their feet, and laugh again louder than ever. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was then the loudest boy in the world, and he is now the loudest man. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I think I was the loudest of the party, but I am sure we were all sincere about it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The latest, loudest, and most impressive form of the talking machine is the Graphophone Grand. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• At times, she took no heed of what was passing before her, or no part in conversations where once, she would have been the loudest. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The sport was at its height, the sliding was at the quickest, the laughter was at the loudest, when a sharp smart crack was heard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Johnny's cry was loudest of them all, though he knew not why he cried, poor little fellow. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Lord Steyne's voice of applause was loudest of all. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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