"He is not here," answered my father in a basso profundo voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

For, of the four singers, only the basso had any conception of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

It was difficult to listen to, his wheezing, basso, lung-riddled cough.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Homer & Langley’] Reference

They made basso doubt and hesitation ride out beneath her carrier wave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

Mr. Francis just drifted into the choir when we needed a basso very much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Soprano] Reference

Diffidence sounded peculiar in a rumbling basso, out of so towering a body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

“So,” he growled then, basso profundo, in an accent as thick as himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

The basso finished his air and the tenor sang another while the curtain was up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

"Madame, your piano is half a tone too low," said the basso, with a reproachful accent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He still speaks in the sandpaper basso profundo that electrified his fellow metalworkers.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Most Popular Politician on Earth'] Reference

It was a late hour when the hostess at the reception requested the eminent basso to sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

And he mimics operatic singers capitally, with sonorous words in mock Italian basso recitative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

The basso sings an aria, and a grand chorus, "Alleluja!" ends this most remarkable performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

But then-his basso rose in volume, causing a few of the sleepers to stir and mutter-then came hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

This tableau lasted nearly two minutes, with the most complete steadiness, the basso singing an aria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

But then—his basso rose in volume, causing a few of the sleepers to stir and mutter—then came hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

He gave me a perfunctory glance and explained the situation in a rolling, aristocratic basso profundo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]

Nor do I crave the basso profundo vociferousness of a shaggy-haired otterhound next to me on the sofa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dog days for British breeds] Reference

With a basso grinding I could feel through my suit, the cleared area above our base crumbled and fell in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forever War]

“A proposition?” he said in this smooth basso voice that struck a major chord on my turn-me-on meter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Payback Club]

For, as Flaxman remarks, the styles of different hands are sufficiently evident in the alto and basso rilievo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

'Well,' said the falsetto voice, 'why don't you' -- the hoarse basso carried on the phrase -- 'send somebody else?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

I heard the katydid sing, and the whip-poor-will, and the deep basso-profundo of the bullfrog on the bank of the pond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference

Checked for any obvious injuries (nothing serious, that I could see) and yelled “Enough!” in a basso profundo tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference

Besides whom are two famous announcements, yet to come from Europe: the French tenor, Roger, and the German basso, Formes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

They were halfway down the other side when they heard it: a deep, coughing, basso roar, coming from somewhere behind them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

He joined the singing-class there, for his voice had suddenly grown harsh and deep, and he conceived himself to be a basso.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Andrea Silvestrelli's basso was embracing and reassuring as Sarastro, even as it thinned a tad in the more profundo regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Punt: Magic Flute at Santa Fe Opera] Reference

His eyes went to the door of the smoking-room whence was audible a discussion of voices, and among them Judge Buller's basso.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

Mike would flog them to their feet among general laughter and they would start again, hopping clum­sily to his basso-profundo chant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prayers To Broken Stones]

(Oleaginous basso voice: “What Paul Masson said nearly a century ago is still true today: We will sell no wine before its time.”).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberation of Francis Ford Coppola] Reference

On talk radio, the nation's bitter vox pop, the voice is syndicated host Rush Limbaugh, the self-appointed basso profundo foe of Bull.    From Wordnik.com.  [The No Bull Campaign] Reference

It was the sea she heard, the throaty basso call of waves on the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lightkeeper]