Blue smoke clouds curled lazily upward from the great circle of the kraal, lying below in the distance, and the sound of far-away voices floated melodiously, pleasingly upon the clear still air.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
A gentle wind murmurs melodiously through the dewy grass, and sighs among the thick foliage of the lindens like a dreamy echo of the sweet monotonous tolling of bells that comes from the gleaming white churches and chapels on the mountain-slopes on the other side of the Save.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
Their skill in music must have been very great: and though they have been changed into birds, they retain that faculty, and, I am told, sing most melodiously.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant