1 His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
2 Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again.
3 Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone.
4 In a little while I heard a low husky sob and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face.
5 'Never heard his name,' said the waiter, in a rich husky voice.
6 Her voice had a peculiarly engaging quality; it was deep, a little husky, and one always heard the breath vibrating behind it.
7 She was there, in the full vigour of her personality, battered but not diminished, looking at me, speaking to me in the husky, breathy voice I remembered so well.
8 The bartender was a big, husky fellow, with the jaw of a prize fighter, and a three weeks' stubble of hair upon it.
9 His voice was husky from much speaking, but the great auditorium was as still as death, and every one heard him.
10 There was husky emotion in his voice.
11 It was his voice, husky and rusty, issuing from a thick black cotton-wool beard that gave him away.
12 Below these in force, above them in pitch, a dwindled voice strove hard at a husky tune, which was the peculiar local sound alluded to.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 13 Yet Thomasin occupied Mrs. Yeobright's thoughts but slightly as she looked up the valley of the heath, alive with butterflies, and with grasshoppers whose husky noises on every side formed a whispered chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day 14 "You are to take her to her room," he said in a husky voice.
15 Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.