"Guttural" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the taal, with the thick guttural accent that you get in German South West. 'You have heard of me,' he said. 'I am the Colonel von ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan
... said Min. "Still, do you know, as a rule I do not think German poetry nice. It always sounds so harsh and guttural to me, however tender and sentimental the ...
— She and I, Volume 1 • John Conroy Hutcheson
... jealous for our village children, for in the conversation of village children one never hears that suggestion of a considerate mental attitude towards one another. The speech is without flexibility or modulation of tone; harsh, exclamatory, and screaming, or guttural and drawling. Rarely, if ever, does one derive from it an impression that the children are growing to regard one another's feelings, or one another's thoughts. A further point must be mentioned. I hinted that there might be an additional cause, besides physical privations, for the ...
— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
... sea-captains are brutal, nor do all sailors talk in a hoarse guttural, shift their quids, hitch their trousers, and preface their remarks ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard
... several others which the two friends alternately addressed to her, she answered only with guttural sounds that seemed more like the growl of an animal than the voice ...
— Adieu • Honore de Balzac
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