The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two.
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Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.
john milton'If everybody minded their own business,'the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl,'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'
Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
john steinbeckYou know, [his voice trembling, hoarse, no more than a whisper] I always thought I'd go first. a
eddie vedderWe saw a raven very high above us. It called out, and the dome of the sky seemed to echo the sound. It called again and again as it flew onwards, and the mountains gave back the sound, seeming as if from their centre; a musical bell-like answering to the bird's hoarse voice.
dorothy wordsworthThe raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.
william shakespeareThe sun was set; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings.
john gay