Jane was recalled from her polite scrutiny of the women at the next table by hearing her name mentioned in Droom's hoarsest voice, modified into something like a whisper.
"Jane Cable"
George Barr McCutcheon
"That's a Blazing strange answer, too," said he, at his hoarsest.
"A Tale of Two Cities A Story of the French Revolution"
Charles Dickens
And the chapel, of course, had a bell,-a bell which was declared by Mrs. Fenwick to be the hoarsest, loudest, most unmusical, and ill-founded miscreant of a bell that was ever suspended over a building for the torture of delicate ears.
"The Vicar of Bullhampton"
Anthony Trollope