throaty-snarl

Updated: August 9, 2026

Then there was the political speaker, the stump orator, who was full of well-worn phrases, who could not mention the price of wool or the number of cotton bales without using the ferocious throaty-snarl of a beast of prey. He was followed by the clerical type, a speaker who used the most mournful cadences in correcting the gentleman on his left as to the number of cotton bales.

Hamlin Garland - A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West