Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Vociferous; bellowing.

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Examples

  • The gentlemen, meanwhile, were having arguments about the eternal backsheesh with the roaring Arab boatmen; and I recall with wonder and delight especially, the curses and screams of one small and extremely loud-lunged fellow, who expressed discontent at receiving a five, instead of a six-piastre piece.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • Passengers have to submit their persons into the arms of loud-lunged Swahili longshoremen, who recognize one sole and only point of honor: neither passenger nor luggage shall be dropped into the surf.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • They overruled his protest with loud-lunged unanimity and lots of abuse.

    Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Passengers have to submit their persons into the arms of loud-lunged Swahili longshoremen, who recognize one sole and only point of honor: neither passenger nor luggage shall be dropped into the surf.

    The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909

  • 72 Belal, the loud-lunged crier, stood, we are informed, by Moslem historians, upon a part of the roof on one of the walls of the Mosque.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • And lastly, from the South-East angle of the Mosque, supposed to be upon the spot where Belal, the Apostle’s loud-lunged crier, called the first Moslems to prayer, 72 springs the Munar Raisiyah, so called because it is appropriated to the Ruasa or chiefs of the

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

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