Crossword-Solution: ROULADE 7 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The consonants which are hard to pronounce will give the impression of effort, of shock, of violence, of difficulty, of heaviness,--"the round squat turret, black as the fool's heart;" those which are easy of pronunciation express ease, smoothness, fluidity, calm, lightness, (facile, suave, roulade);--"lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon," a line like honey on the tongue, of which physical organ, indeed, one becomes, with the word "tinct," definitely conscious.

Perhaps even so no two nightingales curl their phrase identically, and one roulade differeth from another in glory.

The floor, waxed and polished till it was as smooth as a sheet of gleaming ice, caught and held the tremulous reflections of a hundred flickering lights, whilst from above, where the orchestra was snugly tucked away in the gallery behind a bank of flowers, came faint pizzicato sounds of fiddles tuning up, alternating with an occasional little flourish or tentative roulade of notes.

All was still, and then suddenly, with a wild roulade that sounded at first like the passage of a musical scale, she burst out into a fit of laughter, crying ‘_Non mi amava,_’ through the sounds, in a half-frantic mockery.

Badcock's eyes, alighting on me, grew suddenly large as gooseberries and he checked himself in the middle of a roulade.