"Stage whisper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 402. vocalization; cry &c 411; strain, utterance, prolation^; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis^; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery. accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation. [Word similarly pronounced] homonym. orthoepy^; cacoepy^; euphony &c (melody) 413. gastriloquism^, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... opened the studio door, and perceived Lady Dunstable's prospective daughter-in-law standing in the middle of the studio, head thrown back and hands outstretched, invoking the Cyprian. The shriek of the first lines had died away in a stage whisper; the reciter was glaring fiercely ...
— A Great Success • Mrs Humphry Ward
... dat's sho'," he said, after one of these characteristic scenes, and then, in a stage whisper, "so's de crew. Dey's bofe cou'tin' de ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... Mr. Lincoln. "Well, (in a stage whisper) if I were you I would keep away from him; if he threatens to shoot, I would not trust him, for I believe he would ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure
... stage whisper.) A twenty-four-inch waist, and she won't let it out. Where are my bangles? (Rummages on the toilet-table, and dabs at her hair with ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... in this way without paying a cent of duty," she said in a stage whisper to Miss Lavinia and me in the hall, as she struggled to release the box, wrenching off a waist hook or ...
— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright
... was almost convulsed with laughter at the account Patty gave of the moonlight scene, and her tragic repetition in a stage whisper of "Sylvester, Sylvester!" was ...
— Patty's Friends • Carolyn Wells
... with a friendly smile. Then, in a stage whisper, he asked, "Aunt Jane, can you tell me? Are ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston |
