Literary usage of Bassness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (1842)
"... the former do not owe their bassness to their thickness, but only to their
length ; though being longer, they are improved by being thicker too. ..."
2. Speakers, Singers and Stammerers by Frederick Helmore (1874)
"... sudden bassness bothers them, and they try to continue to speak in the high
pitch in which they have been accustomed from childhood to read and converse ..."
3. Wylder's Hand: A Novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1865)
"Now, Stanley, I can bear any thing but this bassness — any thing but the life
long practice of perfidy — that, I will not and cannot endure. ..."
Other Resources:
