Have you a friend in the army, especially one who sings occasionally, or if he be not canorous, say a friend who likes to read songs and hear them sung by others?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The hopeless, huddled attitude of tramps in doorways; the flinching gait of barefoot children on the icy pavement; the sheen of the rainy streets towards afternoon; the meagreanatomy of the poor defined by the clinging of wet garments; the high canorous note of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference

The groom was in the utmost alarm, both on his own account and on mine, but, in spite of this, so irresistibly had the sense of the ludicrous in this unhappy contretemps taken possession of his fancy, that he sang out a long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter, that might have wakened the Seven Sleepers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference

Yet here and there, through the ghostly twilight, comes the sound of some clear voice that has defied the courses of the years and the mutations of taste; and we hear the rich canorous tones of Gluck, not, perhaps, with all the vigour and the passion that once was theirs, but with the mellowed splendour given by the touch of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

The language, which is derived chiefly from Latin, is thence in such a way derived as to have lost the regularity and stateliness of its ancient original, without having compensated itself with any richness and sweetness of sound peculiarly its own; like, for instance, that canorous vowel quality of its sister derivative, the Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

We presume that there was nothing whatever to have prevented him from concocting as many ballads as he chose; or from engaging, as engines of popular promulgation, the ancestors of those unshaven and raucous gentlemen, to whose canorous mercies we are wont, in times of political excitement, to intrust our own personal and patriotic ditties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

His engines had frightened her with their canorous roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference

Then, like a rumble of thunder, heard we a canorous roar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference

But the other Paris, the Paris of the canorous night, the Paris of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe After 8:15] Reference

Some are graceful and smooth, however, and are canorous though never sonorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

She would solicit thus, canorous of phrase, a fan of her cardboard likenesses held out, invitational.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference

Here is a great deal of talk about rhythm -- and naturally; for in our canorous language rhythm is always at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in the Art of Writing] Reference

Ryder's Exploitation Agency -- ventures that had nothing of the desert in them, but that involved the sea, and the schooner, and the taste of the great-lunged canorous trades.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West] Reference

There had been reading and praising of odes and sonnets the whole blessed afternoon, and now he cried out to the complaisant, canorous company, "Behold Arcadia revived in us!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions] Reference

Then there came a canorous snarl of bass, and then, abruptly, with resistless charm, and with full-bodied, satisfying amplitude of volume the opening movement of the overture of "Carmen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pit] Reference

The Latin has given us most of our canorous words, only they must not be confounded with merely sonorous ones, still less with phrases that, instead of supplementing the sense, encumber it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

The solemnity of those prolonged, canorous syllables: "I require and charge you both, as ye shall answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed," weighed down upon her spirits with an almost intolerable majesty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pit] Reference

This is, of course, said of the best; it is not to be said of the scribblers and the poetasters in their thousands; it is not to be said of the innumerable warblers whose feeble songs "grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw"; it is not true even of a canorous rhetorician, such as Swinburne, or a dreamy teller of tales like William Morris; but it is beyond question true of a Shakespeare or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platform Monologues] Reference

Here I beheld one man, already famous or infamous, a centre of pistol-shots: and another who, if not yet known to rumour, will fill a column of the Sunday paper when he comes to hang-a burly, thick-set, powerful Chinese desperado, six long bristles upon either lip; redolent of whiskey, playing cards, and pistols; swaggering in the bar with the lowest assumption of the lowest European manners; rapping out blackguard English oaths in his canorous oriental voice; and combining in one person the depravities of two races and two civilizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silverado Squatters] Reference

Here I beheld one man, already famous or infamous, a centre of pistol-shots: and another who, if not yet known to rumour, will fill a column of the Sunday paper when he comes to hang -- a burly, thick-set, powerful Chinese desperado, six long bristles upon either lip; redolent of whiskey, playing cards, and pistols; swaggering in the bar with the lowest assumption of the lowest European manners; rapping out blackguard English oaths in his canorous oriental voice; and combining in one person the depravities of two races and two civilizations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silverado Squatters] Reference

The high canorous note of the north-easter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style.] Reference

For I would follow where your host canorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old and New] Reference

In fong canorous tell the warriors deed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone henge. A poem inscribed to Edward Jerningham] Reference