speaking-trumpet

We rode very carefully down our side, and through the soft grass at the bottom, and all the while we listened as if the air was a speaking-trumpet.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

“What a — — — fog!” he exclaimed in the morning; and he used the same words in the afternoon, through a speaking-trumpet, as the two other cutters ranged up within hail.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

With a ponderous beating of paddles against the current the steamer heaved to, and the captain shouted through a speaking-trumpet, with a view to preventing a collision between the barge and the stem of the vessel:

Through Russia 2003

Mathieu was the soul of the journal and Du Roy his speaking-trumpet.

Bel Ami 2003

“We can reassure him, on that score,” said Dr. Ferguson — and, standing erect, making a speaking-trumpet of his hands, he shouted at the top of his voice, in French:

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

A resounding basso shouted as through a speaking-trumpet:

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

Ever and anon, too, the captain on the bridge kept shouting, hoarsely through a speaking-trumpet:

Through Russia 2003

He passed his arm round a rope to steady himself, made a speaking-trumpet of his hands, and suddenly dropped them again without uttering a sound.

Armadale 2003

"Get down to the guns," snapped Hornblower, and then, with the need for silence at an end, he reached for the speaking-trumpet.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

"Sponge your guns!" bellowed Bush through his speaking-trumpet.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962