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  • June morning, and housed myself in an old-fashioned, four-story brick hotel, the Loomis House, in which the proprietor, a portly, ruddy-faced, trumpet-voiced man, assigned to me an apartment -- a spacious corner room, with three windows looking upon the main thoroughfare and two upon

    A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

  • They had been spotted by a trumpet-voiced sentry and instantly the whole place was in commotion.

    The Beach of Dreams 1907

  • No; they are absolutely silent concerning the trumpet-voiced vegetable.

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • a few squads of Militia recruits being drilled by the trumpet-voiced sergeants; and for music there was the ring of a hundred rifle-butts striking the ground together, the tramp and click of many feet, and the clatter of the colonel's horse as he rode across the yard.

    The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907

  • Such is the moral of this film, run a close second by "Don't give a shit about anybody-be selfish," as delivered by Leah (Bette Midler), a trumpet-voiced movie agent.

    The New Yorker 2008

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