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A whisp of a canorous clarinet or a rumbling rattle is all it takes for a kind of instant transport to a far-off time and place.

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Her titillating descriptions and canorous phrasing are a pleasure — so much so that I wished her to go bolder, to set the scene and capture the characters in rich Technicolor.

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Contents of the Phrase.—Here is a great deal of talk about rhythm—and naturally; for in our canorous language rhythm is always at the door.

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Have you a friend in the army, especially one who sings occasionally, or if he be not canorous, say a friend who likes to read songs and hear them sung by others?

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His engines had frightened her with their canorous roar.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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