← but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:-- 🔊
← ‘If everybody minded their own business,’ the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ‘the world would go round a deal faster than it does.’ 🔊
← ‘I wasn’t asleep,’ he said in a hoarse, feeble voice: ‘I heard every word you fellows were saying.’ 🔊