trumpet-tongued

Verdi has almost no interest in the religious dimension of the story: the trumpet-tongued angels or the eye of heaven peeping "through the blanket of the dark" entirely disappear.

In the Night Kitchen Greenblatt, Stephen 2008

King Duncan's virtues 'Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against/The deep damnation of his taking-off' (1.7).

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

At that period, their most distinguished statesmen were trumpet-tongued against slavery.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

We cannot guard too jealously the clear trumpet-tongued preacher of everlasting right, sounding out a great Nation's convictions of obligation and duty.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The equipoise of his mind, the solidity of his character, the strength of his faith, the brightness of his hope, the simple, steadfast fidelity of his devotion to the Master, will speak trumpet-tongued to multitudes who never saw his face in the flesh.

Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Rev. John Gerardus Fagg

The hissing train rattles along; the trumpet-tongued whistle -- or rather horn -- booms far away in the breeze, and finds no echo; the giant monarchs of the forest line the road on either side, like a guard of

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

But this was reserved for the more trumpet-tongued tones of the contemporary phase to which I now turn.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Every tongue which speaks for Freedom, which has once been held by the awful gag of Slavery, is trumpet-tongued -- and he who pleads against this monstrous oppression, if he can say, "here are the scars," can do much.

Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Austin Steward

The lack-lustre eye, rayless as a Beacon-Street door-plate in August, all at once fills with light; the face flings itself wide open like the church-portals when the bride and bridegroom enter; the little man grows in stature before your eyes, like the small prisoner with hair on end, beloved yet dreaded of early childhood; you were talking with a dwarf and an imbecile, -- you have a giant and a trumpet-tongued angel before you!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

No, gentlemen, it is a face for a mother to love, and a sister to idolize, and in which the natural goodness of his heart pleads trumpet-tongued against the deep damnation that estranged him from home and its principles.

Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter