How To Use Mellifluous In A Sentence
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Seek ye then, fair daughters, the possession of that inward grace, whose essence shall permeate and vitalize the affections, adorn the countenance, make mellifluous the voice, and impart a hallowed beauty even to your motions.
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Her voice was mellifluous and lilting and her soft brown eyes had a hint of mischief in them.
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Prince Vaji closed his eyes and allowed his immortal senses hear the mellifluous music, designed to ensnare the mind of its listener.
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The mellifluous voice of the tenor did indeed ‘comfort’ us in his first aria.
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The sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey - tongued Shakespeare.
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Venus had what society columnists and besotted male journalists referred to as a mane of cascading auburn hair and her intellectual pedigree came directly from the Sorbonne, but she was Italian, with an accent that only grew stronger and more mellifluous as the years went by.
Sugar Skull
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“The Shah of Persia,” a mellifluous voice announced, “contemplates an increment of his hareem.”
At Swim, Two Boys
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Her physical energy and humour are palpable, her voice a mellifluous tool with which she weaves tale upon tale, until one loses track of time in the hands of a master storyteller.
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Despite age, the singer has a mellifluous voice.
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Then, there was an important-sounding fanfare, and a mellifluous announcer introduced the first Guest of Honour talk.
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His poem - for all the mellifluousness of its alexandrines - was a lacerating attack upon the proposition that "tout est bien."
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The waves crashed over and over, the sound mellifluous and almost lulling to my ear.
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The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana, which closeth the volume of his "Opuscula Academica," to observe (we translate from memory) that,
Paul Clifford — Complete
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The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that _Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana_, which closeth the volume of his
Paul Clifford — Volume 02
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But I also wanted it known that this was a comical mystery, and since I think "minivan" is a funny word -- otherwise the proper title would be For Whom the SUV Rolls, which is a lot less mellifluous -- that was accomplished, too.
Titled Gentry
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It's movie dialogue, to be sure - no one, especially the sort of low-life characters they tend to write, speaks with such mellifluous, bookish vocabulary.
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Fair dos, Kaplan obviously had fun writing it, and some of his touches work well: 'Under this Adam Impulse people have exerted themselves to come up with names for very large numbers, such as primo-vigesimo-centillion for 10366, and the mellifluous milli-millillion for 103,000,003.'
The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero
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If so, it makes a mellifluous phrase with "ludenic," but it seems a bit of a stretch.
Another Strong Tide of Reviews, Washing In . . .
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‘We will have refreshments and you shall tell me of your misadventure,’ Arvid said in a rich, mellifluous voice.
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The nightingale is universally admitted to be the most enchanting of warblers; and many might be tempted to encage the mellifluous songster, but for the supposed difficulty of procuring proper food for it.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
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But I was surprised to discover that in person he is charming and attentive, with a gentle smile and mellifluous voice.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was pleased to see the word "mellifluous" in today's post, especially as your use of it was so apt.
Public Servitude: Making the Streets Safe for Absurdity
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Inside: the mellifluous cacophony of the gaming machines, the tintinnabulations of the bells.
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Smokey Robinson coined the term "quiet storm" to describe a certain kind of mellifluous R&B back in the mid-70s, and the four-times-platinum Diamond Life, which won the BRIT Award for Best Album in 1985, and its attendant four singles, helped give that gently turbulent music a wide, even international audience.
BBC - Ouch
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The opening pair found him on top form, imperious, then mellifluous.
Times, Sunday Times
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I think his voice is noble, mellifluous, rich and with a good range of colours.
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Marian Evans with her long, weird, dreamy face; Lewes, with his big brow and keen thoughtful eyes; Browning, pale and spruce, his eye like a skipper's cocked-up at the weather; Peacock, with his round, mellifluous speech of the old Greeks; David Gray, great-eyed and beautiful, like Shelley’s ghost; Lord Houghton, with his warm worldly smile and easy-fitting enthusiasm.
The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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But his mellifluous tones were marred by a sniper.
Times, Sunday Times
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The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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Yet that mellifluous voice, it emerged, was not his sole forte.
Times, Sunday Times
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The voice was rich, mellifluous and like an angel sent from heavens above.
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The polyglot orchestra backing her up plays world music from everywhere and nowhere that incorporates Middle Eastern clarinet, European glockenspiel and other mellifluous sounds in addition to Mexican mariachi guitar.
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We dozed off to the mellifluous sounds of nature.
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It must be the most musical and mellifluous language in the world.
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I grew up around people who had wonderful, mellifluous voices.
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Staring into space, each concentrated on the soft sounds of Mari's mellifluous voice.
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SOCRATES: And if Adrastus the mellifluous or Pericles heard of these wonderful arts, brachylogies and eikonologies and all the hard names which we have been endeavouring to draw into the light of day, what would they say?
Phaedrus
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As the syllables of Apatow's name sift through her mellifluous vocal chords, my pinball brain starts to tilt: You, Catherine Deneuve, are a Judd Apatow fan?
Canada.com Top Stories
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Senator John McCain, who has not known as a mellifluous orator, is already playing the political game of lowering expectations for his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis next month – particularly since Senator Barack Obama will deliver his speech before the Democrats at the Denver Broncos’ football stadium.
McCain on His Convention Speech - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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His mellifluous deep belly laugh occupies the same low register as his bass and my mind wanders back to the bottles rattling and chinking behind the bar during his sporadic solos the night before.
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Just as there is more to the songs' lyrics than that, so there is more to their sound than mellifluous strumming.
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Young listeners had forgotten that music could be mellifluous and still have depth.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the hands of a friendly receiver this car became a boon to the capitol contingent; its observation platform served as a shifting rostrum from which a deep-chested executive or a mellifluous Hawk often addressed admiring crowds at way stations, and its dining saloon was the moving scene of many little relaxative feasts, at which _Veuve Cliquot_ flowed freely, priceless cigars were burned, and the members of the organization unbent, each after his kind.
The Grafters
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It surged through the mellifluous, Mozart-inflected string deluges of Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta," then picked along Stravinsky's cubist angularities, where flashes of stridency were momentarily backlit by lyricism.
A Shining Study in Vision
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Then there were words which were beautiful to hear, which had a rich sound -- words like "mellifluous" and "brocade" and "Cleopatra.
Missy
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From Ontario, Kiran Ahluwalia brings her Punjabi folk songs, and a mellifluous voice that will wrap her audience in its exotic charms.
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Once I heard her mellifluous voice softly humming to the radio, I sighed a breath of relief.
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He doesn't so much speak to you as he lulls you in lilting, mellifluous tones.
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His voice was mellifluous and comforting.
Times, Sunday Times
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It combines - appropriately in four letters - the notion of ripping, rooting, offing and torting in mellifluous onomatopoeia.
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I was particularly taken with the mellifluous sounds of the ‘authentic’ clarinets.
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Finally, however, her mellifluous voice with its distinctive accent and timbre began captivating the hearts of audiences elsewhere, and she shot to fame.
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It is eclectic, melodic, and ranges from imitations of Gregorian chants to mellifluous romances.
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This larghetto in A flat is a trifle too ornamental for my taste, mellifluous and serene as it is.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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His mellifluous voice frequently erupts in rumbustious laughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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While engine noise never gets out of hand and indeed sounds quite mellifluous, you do hear a surprising amount of noise from passing traffic.
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Rose wondered, listening to Yashi's soft, mellifluous voice soothing Jess, and feeling a pang of annoyance that she'd gone straight for him.
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Then again, he did use the word "mellifluous" just for flare -- maybe saying, "amen" is just some literary device we don't understand yet ...
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These elements were even more evocatively combined in the especially atmospheric penultimate song, ‘After a hundred years’, where the mellifluous voice was enveloped by the piano's sustained octaves and fifths and string pizzicati.
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During my most psychotic moment, almost an out-of-body experience, I heard music -- a mellifluous strain originating from the clouds, so it seemed.
Robert David Jaffee: Why The World Is A Safer Place For People With Mental Illness
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The words to the song started, and I could hear Christina's mellifluous voice singing softly along with it.
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Then again, he did use the word "mellifluous" just for flare -- maybe saying, "amen" is just some literary device we don't understand yet ...
More on Sarah Palin, Moose Hunting, and Other Stuff
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The reason why I had Larry sing was not for his mellifluous performance, but to demonstrate the difference in reactions between him andour happyvolunteer (“Country Road” by John Denver – this really was a love fest).
John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February
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Pahi Pahi Balaganapathe" in Hamsadhwani raga and rupaka tala, which followed the Sri raga varna, was preceded by a brief but mellifluous sketch of the raga and supplemented with kalpana swaras.
The Hindu - Front Page
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The voice on the Route-8 bus pronounces the names of each bus stop in perfect, mellifluous native Hawaiian: "Kuhio and Lili'uokalani," the recording says as the bus approaches a stop on the way to Waikiki Beach.
How to Pronounce Lili'uokalani? Ask Marvin Nogelmeier
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In Italian what name could sound more mellifluous than Felice?
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Anyway, if you yearn on your computer to hear this mellifluous tongue, check our Radia na Gaeltacht, which, when Irish is not being spoken, has some of the coolest and hippest music, outshining any college or ‘progressive’ radio station, check out:
Ireland’s Language Remains on Life Support - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
