Voice, Weak

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Voice, Weak

  1. Forced little voice, wavering like a puff of smoke —Ivan Turgenev
  2. Her voice came soft and faint, as though another person had said the words first and she was merely passing them on —Harvey Swados
  3. Her voice was small, as if she had to squeeze it up from the depths —Laura Furman
  4. Little voice, that wavered like a thread of smoke —Ivan Turgenev
  5. Voice as faint as the buzzing of a bee’s wings —Kenzaburo Oe
  6. Voice … faded, thin away. Like a river diminishing to a stream and then to a trickle —Maya Angelou
  7. Voice no bigger than a starling’s —R. Wright Campbell
  8. Voice … thin as a sheet of Zig Zag —Arnold Sawislak
  9. His voice [Tennesee Williams,] wavers unsteadily like old gray cigar smoke in a room with no ventilation, rising to a mad cackle like a wounded macaw, settling finally in a cross somewhere between Tallulah Bankhead and Everett Dirksen —Rex Reed
Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Now and again he pulled and tugged at the collar which nearly choked him and cried out in a weak voice:
"I don't know if it would be allowed," replied the officer in a weak voice. "Here is our commanding officer...
A door was opened, and Athos, turning a little towards the part of the room the noise came from, cried, in a weak voice:
"I'm all wrong, somehow," he said, in a weak voice. "How very wet this water is!"
'Scarcely alive--almost starved to death,' answered Martin in a weak voice. 'I little thought it would come to this, that I should die of hunger.'
"Say it ain't true, Pembroke; tell me it ain't true!" he said in a weak voice.
Jane looked back across the half-forgotten years, and the vision of Tom's gladness flashed upon her: his haggard smile, the tears in his tired eyes, his outstretched arms, his weak voice saying, "Oh, Jenny!
`A fine day, your Majesty!' the Duchess began in a low, weak voice.
Basilio, however, reviving slightly, said in a weak voice, as though in pain, "If thou wouldst consent, cruel Quiteria, to give me thy hand as my bride in this last fatal moment, I might still hope that my rashness would find pardon, as by its means I attained the bliss of being thine."
'I don't know,' replies Venus, who is a haggard melancholy man, speaking in a weak voice of querulous complaint, 'to what to attribute it, Mr Wegg.
But Robin Hood took Little John's rough, brown fist in his white hands, and chid him softly in his low, weak voice, asking him since what time Little John had thought of doing harm to women, even in vengeance.
"It is two days since I have eaten anything," he said to him in a slow, weak voice. "My wife is dying of hunger, and has never uttered one word of complaint; she will die smiling, I think.
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