| 1. | Sometimes the chords were sonorous and melancholy. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | To speak with a full and sonorous voice out of a broad chest. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing word is borne through the ai. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | No more a flashing eye, no more a sonorous voice or springy step. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | As I heard you shouting loud, your sonorous voice ringing across th. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 6. | Cloud let fall slowly ten strokes from its sonorous jaws. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | The words which characterize it in administrative language are sonorous and dignified. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | Some few words passed between them in that sonorous language in which Homer makes his gods converse. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | GRAMPUS.--Though this fish, whose loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not popularly classed among whales. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |