Her voice had a pleasant plangency, a quality of more yet to come and as if the wells of her vitality were far from drained.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
She was short of breath, so that her voice palpitated with a touching plangency that shook the man's heart.
"Alice of Old Vincennes"
Maurice Thompson
Elvira, on the other hand, sang her patriotic and romantic songs with more than usual expression; her voice had charm and plangency; and as Leon looked at her, in her low-bodied maroon dress, with her arms bare to the shoulder, and a red flower set provocatively in her corset, he repeated to himself for the many hundredth time that she was one of the loveliest creatures in the world of women.
"New-Arabian-Nights"
Stevenson, Robert Louis