Citations:plangent

English citations of plangent

• 1902 (edition), The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous writings:

  In a sense they are echoes; but they are echoes\so vocal and so plangent, so wanton and so vigorous, as altogether to drown the Voices that set them calling.

• 2011, H. J. Massingham, Country Relics: An Account of Some Old Tools and Properties (→ISBN):

  The sound of them, the smallest as big as a hand-bell, was so plangent, fiery and of good report that the thought of them no longer gladdening horse and man was like a knell rather than the triumph which once their notes had rung.