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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

— Paradise Lost (1665), book 7, lines 23-6 (published 1667)

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I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

fred allen

— Much Ado About Me (1956)

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'If everybody minded their own business,'the Duchess said, in a hoarse growl,'the world would go round a deal faster than it does.'


— 1865  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.6,'Pig and Pepper'.

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Seraphs and saints with one great voice; Welcomed that soul that knew not fear. Amazed to find it could rejoice, Hell raised a hoarse, half-human cheer.

john davidson

— "A Ballad of Hell", p. 85.

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Four hoarse blasts of a ship’s whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

john steinbeck

— Pt. 1 (Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962))

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You know, [his voice trembling, hoarse, no more than a whisper] I always thought I'd go first. a

eddie vedder

— about Kurt Cobain’s death, May 21, 1994, Melody Maker

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We 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 wordsworth

— July 27, 1800
Cf. Wordsworth's The Excursion, Book 4, lines 1175-87.

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The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 5, line 40.

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The 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

— John Gay, Shepherd's Week, Wednesday; or, The Dumps.

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I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

fred allen

— Fred Allen, Much Ado About Me (1956)

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The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief!


— Lady Macbeth, Scene V

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