"Raucous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... burn. He had no defense against this sarcasm. He wanted praise for having accomplished something, instead of raucous laughter. ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... set me aside. You have no thoughts for me—no words. Yet you can talk when you go to the trading-house. You have words and to spare for the trader. You can drink with him. You can sing, 'Drink with me a cup of wine.'" He lifted his raucous old voice in ludicrous travesty of the favorite catch, for sometimes the two Britons, so incongruous in point of age, education, sentiment, and occupation, cemented their bond as compatriots by carousing together ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock
... to reply. The roaring of the surf had subsided somewhat, enough for another sound to reach our ears—a raucous, ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers
... the center of the road firing at the swaying car as, lurching from side to side, it bore down upon them. Barney sounded the raucous military horn; but the soldiers seemed unconscious of their danger—they still stood there pumping lead toward the onrushing Juggernaut. At the last instant they attempted to rush from its path; but they were ...
— The Mad King • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... meretricious and platitudinous ethical purpose began to be read into him—how he protested against it!—he was straightway adopted into our flabby culture. Compare Hauptmann and Brieux, the one a great artist, the other no more than a raucous journalist. Brieux's elaborate proofs that two and two are four have been hailed as epoch-making; one of his worst plays, indeed, has been presented with all the solemn hocus-pocus of a religious rite. But Hauptmann remains almost unknown; even the ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken
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