hoarsely

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1. With a dry, harsh voice.

   She spoke hoarsely because of her cough.

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   `Say, hast thou seen enough!' `I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,' I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

   I hope that my philosopher may yet walk on the hills with me, if only for the sake of the love I bear the green valleys; and when I see the great stream passing silently from translucent pool to pool, overhung by rowans and sun-warmed rocks, I shall be glad to think that I have walked on the heights where it was gathered and drawn, and that I have heard it talk hoarsely to itself, cold and uncomforted, among the bleak and dripping stones.

   1913, Arthur Christopher Benson, The Silent Isle

   "Where do you keep your cash, bub?" asked Idris hoarsely. His American was better than Hassan's English.

   1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 490