The former was gifted with the greatest affluence of pure melodiousness ever given to a composer.
"The Great German Composers"
George T. Ferris
He felt more than he said, and he immediately set himself loyally to work to enumerate all the points in which Miss Helen Minorkey was superior to Isa, and said that, after all, gracefulness of form and elasticity of motion and melodiousness of voice were only lower gifts, possessed in a degree by birds and animals, and he blamed himself for feeling them at all, and felt thankful that Helen Minorkey had those higher qualities which would up-lift-he had read some German, and compounded his words-up-lift a man to a higher level.
"The Mystery of Metropolisville"
Edward Eggleston
Voices of people boating on the river floated up too, softened to melodiousness.
"The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight"
Elizabeth von Arnim