roar (n.)

roar (v.)

But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,

When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:

"I hear a lion in the lobby roar;

Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door

And keep him there, or shall we let him in

To try if we can turn him out again?"

James Bramston (1694-1744): Art of Politics.

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.

But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,

When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:

"I hear a lion in the lobby roar;

Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door

And keep him there, or shall we let him in

To try if we can turn him out again?"

James Bramston (1694-1744): Art of Politics.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Job iii.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;

There is a rapture on the lonely shore;

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 178.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Job iii.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1.

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove; I will roar you, an 't were any nightingale.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.

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roar (n.)

roar (v.)