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Only once or twice did Matthews interject a weak-voiced threat to end the call, and ... after the call ended ... wound it up by saying Coulter had all the time she wanted to respond to Edwards.

Why John Edwards Did Not Make "The Call" 2007

Put your weak-voiced readers on the platform; let them face the class and talk to you, seated in the middle of the room, and you will get all the force you need.

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

But, none of these eyes perceiving him, whispers began once more to creep slowly round: in a weak-voiced inquiry about the criminal.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

One weak-voiced guard failed to make himself heard until our car was almost past.

The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man William Benjamin West

He was like a weak-voiced cricket chirping in the sunshine.

The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921

One weak-voiced neighbor helped my father out with the tenor.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

The organ had dropped into the customary groaning undertone that is meant, I suppose, to give courage to the nervous and weak-voiced during the responses.

People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896

He is a blind little old man, pale and weak-voiced.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

A very popular local excursion by steamboat to Lulstead Cove was announced through the streets of Budmouth one Thursday morning by the weak-voiced town-crier, to start at six o'clock the same day.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

Mr. Carlyle and his more weak-voiced imitators, takes another form in men of a different training or temperament.

On Compromise John Morley 1880