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Sentences ending with tones

It is also well known that some dogs howl when hearing particular tones. [1]
And her heart was turned from her son's step-daughter, whom at first she had welcomed right kindly; she overlooked her as a rule, or if she spoke to her, it was in harsh and ungracious tones. [10]
Next the Indian turned, and spoke to his brethren in measured, sonorous tones. [9]
Kemble's acting seemed to him too studied and over-labored; he had the disadvantage of a voice lacking rich bass tones. [4]
I didn't know there was any hope at all," he said with awe in his tones. [11]
Hosea, to whom the custom was perfectly familiar, did the same and, like the rest, lowered his tones. [10]
It was a still night, I remember, of great beauty, with a wisp of a moon hanging over the forest line, the air heavy with odors and vibrant with a thousand insect tones. [9]
Nebsecht raised himself, sneezed, but fell back asleep again; Uarda laughed out with her clear silvery tones. [10]
About eleven o'clock Riley and Cutcheon moved off to the edge of a cane-brake near the water, and sat there for a while, talking in low tones. [9]
How well I recall those rich and low tones! [9]

More example sentences with the word tones in them

I must tell you, mon cher," he continued in the sad and measured tones of a man who intends to tell a long story, "that our name is one of the most ancient in France. [2]
With Ursel she would be protected from the terrors of solitude, for, besides the old woman's voice, a man's tones also reached her through the open window. [10]
At length parting words were uttered in louder tones, the door of the cell was locked and the prisoner approached his window. [10]
He also listened with keen attention when the scientists finally discussed in low tones what they had perceived, and caught the words, "White scar on the cornea," "leucoma," and "operation. [10]
As man and wife confronted him, Mr. Crewe greeted them in hospitable but stentorian tones that rose above the strains of "Don't you wish you'd Waited? [9]
Besides, many words which the two exchanged escaped her hearing, for they talked in low tones, and it was hot in the tent. [10]
The poor medicaments which Angelique brings avail not; these soothing hands and healing tones, they pass through clouds of the middle place between heaven and earth to Antoine. [11]
No matter of what he wrote or spoke, his words, his tones, his looks, carried the evidence of a sincerity which pervaded them all and was to his eloquence and poetry like the water of crystallization; without which they would effloresce into mere rhetoric. [6]
How warmly, with what convincing tones he understood how to give expression to his love to-day! [10]
Presently, while they were yet speaking of their departing, again there were voices without; and albeit I could scarce believe my ears I mistook not, and knew the tones for Ursula's. [10]
All around them were well-dressed, well-fed, prosperous-looking people, talking and laughing in subdued tones as they ate. [9]
There was nothing weak in the deep organ tones that responded: "You know it's a lie as well as I do, old friend. [5]
The large room was perfectly still, but the peace that surrounded her was often disturbed by strange noises and tones, that rose from the dining-hall directly under her chamber. [10]
Garnham says: "It was on the evening before his departure, as he wished still once to visit the Lei and offer to the Nymph of the Rhine his Sighs, the tones of his Zither, and his Songs. [5]
What they said was lost to us, but I could distinguish the woman's voice, low-pitched and vibrant as though insisting upon a refusal, and the man's scarce adult tones, now high as though with balked passion, now shaken and imploring. [9]
Voices mingled, there was light laughter, little bursts of admiration, then lower tones, and then he was roused by a voice calling. [11]
Barop, the head-master, was already hastening down the steps, welcoming my mother and ourselves with his deep, musical tones, in a pure Westphalian dialect. [10]
Standing up, Orlando was about to call out again in peremptory tones, when, suddenly, the spirit of death touched his senses, and his heart stood still for an instant. [11]
By her side was a lute, from which she brought the softest and most soothing tones, and thus added to the witchery of her appearance. [10]
Very unlike Barine's voice, too, were the deep, earnest tones trembling with emotion, in which she confronted him with the brief question, concealing a faint reproach, "Another demand? [10]
His full clear voice sounded like pure song when compared with the shrill tones of Amasis. [10]
He could not very clearly remember the tones of her voice, because after marriage, and before he had sent her to England, he had seen little or nothing of her. [11]
Beside him sat Uvarov, who with rapid gesticulations was giving him some information, speaking in low tones as they all did. [2]
Then, with an upward wave of his fingers, he spoke in a mocking lightness, but without any of the malice which had first appeared in his tones, words from an old French song: "I say no more, my lady Mironton, Mironton, Mirontaine! [11]
We looked down upon Kaskaskia from the self-same spot where I had stood on the bluff with Colonel Clark, and the sounds were even then the same,--the sweet tones of the church bell and the lowing of the cattle. [9]
Once he started up to fly, but he again heard the bewitching tones of her musical laugh, and mysterious powers detained him, forcing him to listen. [10]
And after them trooped others, and still others were heard in the street beyond, not whispering, but talking in the unmistakable tones of people who had more coming behind them. [9]
She recognized Navarrete's tones, opened the door, and asked what he desired. [10]
Euthymia began, in tones that expressed deep anxiety. [6]
Their coarse, barbaric tones shook the air, and reduced the Greeks to silence; for, even in his drunken and most reckless moods, the Greek never lost his subtle refinement. [10]
On occasion the tones of his voice told her, the look that came into his eyes proclaimed it to her, his feverishness and restlessness made it certain. [11]
Restore the melting tones of her voice and, though the bond of love which rendered this month of May so exquisitely beautiful to us must remain severed, I will not fail to remember it with all graciousness. [10]
Sometimes the dubious tones of a guitar and the notes of an amorous voice, tell perchance the whereabout of some moonstruck lover serenading his lady's window. [4]
Carts rattled, loud tones mingled excitedly, and a deep masculine voice seemed to be directing what was going on. [10]
There were hoarse tones in her voice, usually so clear and musical, which betrayed the emotion raging in her breast as she assailed the young Macedonian noble with a flood of questions. [10]
After her commanding tones Hannah's tale sounded as soft as a song. [10]
His rich, low tones had the strangest significance to her; she felt sure he must have lived through long experiences, sorrowful like her own. [6]
So far as tones and expressions and habits which belonged to the idiosyncrasy of the original are borrowed by the student of his life, it is a misfortune for the borrower. [6]
And she wanted to talk to him about Italy,--only she did not know how to begin,--when a customer appeared, an Italian woman who conversed with him in soft, liquid tones that moved her .... [9]
I have written to my poor mother," said the smiling Mademoiselle Bourienne rapidly, in her pleasant mellow tones and with guttural r's. [2]
From time to time Paulus murmured in a low voice, but in tones of keen anguish, "In vain--all in vain--" and again, "I seek, I seek--but who can show me the way? [10]
We could hear through the door the good priest's voice in prayer and benediction, pronouncing absolution over the dying man, and at times my grand uncle's wrathful tones, feeble indeed, but terrible to hear. [10]
And I heard this, and much more that was spoken of in low tones at the Colonel's fire far into the night, of which I never told the rank and file,--not even Tom McChesney. [9]
The orator said--and this time in the tones of business, not of sentiment: "An ye do not know your country's laws, it were time ye learned them. [5]
Austen had reached this phase in his reflections when he was aroused by a metallic sound which arose above the resonant tones of the orator of the day. [9]
But to reproduce this harmony of being, the error of personal sense must yield to science, even as the science of music corrects tones caught from the ear, and gives the sweet concord of sound. [5]
I remember two things about his lectures on surgery, the deep tones of his voice as he referred to his oracle,--the earlier writer, Jean Louis Petit,--and his formidable snuffbox. [6]
Beneath her abstractions there was a capacity of loving which might have been inferred from the expression of her features, the light that shone in her eyes, the tones of her voice, all of which were full of the language which belongs to susceptible natures. [6]
I find in them tones of deep tenderness only, such as have arisen and will arise from sad and aching hearts in every land and every age. [10]
Before and behind them other visitors were entering, also talking in low tones and wearing ball dresses. [2]
My companions expressed their admiration in subdued and reverent tones, and at the tinkling of the bell we reverently tiptoed out of the room to admit another delegation of the patient waiters at the door. [5]
That was not the voice which had spoken to her in broken tones of love on the day Ian first dined with her after her marriage--that fateful, desperate day. [11]
In spite of the vehement and indignant tones in which his lodger spoke, the senator remained perfectly calm, and presently went away to ask his wife whether she by chance, while he was asleep, had opened the house to the missing woman. [10]
She could hear the tones of his voice. [4]
In the west the sun was slipping down behind the hills, leaving the strong day with a rosy and radiant glamour, that faded away in eloquent tones to the grey, tinsel softness of the zenith. [11]
Far away to the south long trellices of vine covered the slopes, broken by the silvery glaucous tones of the olive-groves, and by clumps of towering palms whose crowns mingled to form a lofty canopy. [10]
She heard at the same time the voices of the sentry and of Corporal Shorter in low tones of badinage, and she frowned. [11]
The publisher and the poet talked in low tones, as if on business of their own, and watched him as he returned to his labor. [6]
Then he thanked the old man and asked, in subdued tones, whether all the Hebrews had willingly obeyed the summons to leave house and lands. [10]
Hurrying out of the gate, they spread the news like wildfire, and presently the church bell clanged in tones of unmistakable joy. [9]
Deeply moved by the firmness with which Charmian witnessed the approach of death, Barine listened in silence, but suddenly started as the sharp tones of a well-known voice called her friend's name and, as she turned, Iras stood before her. [10]
As Martina opened the door of the sitting room a loud conversation in men's voices became audible, and with the deep, resonant tones of the syndic Barbara recognised the higher, less powerful ones of the man whom she was seeking. [10]
Soon one heard the deep tones of the organ and of chanting men; then one saw a long file of lights approaching through the dim church. [5]
The grey-haired countess, the cousin went on, had passed from one attack of convulsions into another, and when he approached her had shrieked the words "ingratitude" and "base reward" so shrilly at him, in various tones, that they were still ringing in his ears. [10]
The stupendous images that in such moments of wild energy rose before the poet's soul, the fearful or enchanting tones that rang in his spirit's ear-none could guess at. [10]
It is probable that his features or tones betrayed some impatience at having thus been foiled of his purpose, for Mrs. Hopkins thought he looked all the time as if he wanted to get rid of her. [6]
Then she remembered that he ought to be on his way, and she shook him gently, then, with all her strength, and called to him quietly all the time, as if her low tones ought to wake him, if nothing else could. [11]
How hateful its strident tones were to her ear! [10]
Even as I strained, the tones drew nearer, and they were mixed with sweeter ones I knew well, and Dorothy's mother's voice. [9]
Ditmar continued to speak in vehement tones of uncontrolled rage. [9]
The tones often sounded as gentle as lullabies, often as resonant and impetuous as battle songs. [10]
Then she uttered soothing words, and, as the anxious, troubled expression did not yet pass from his wrinkled face, she reminded him in faltering yet tender tones how often they had thought they must despair, and yet everything had resulted well. [10]
Then out of some remote corner of that vast place there rose a plaintive voice, and in tones most tender and sweet and rich came floating through that enchanted hush our poor old simple song "L'Arbre Fee Bourlemont! [5]
And still she shouted in ringing tones, "Hail, hail, Caesar! [10]
In her terror she screamed for help; her cries were echoed back from the Pyramids in such loud and fearful tones that she awoke. [10]
Another time when she called Dunyasha her voice trembled, so she called again--though she could hear Dunyasha coming--called her in the deep chest tones in which she had been wont to sing, and listened attentively to herself. [2]
Several gentlemen were sent for to see him, in his last moments, one of whom (Judge Davis) made a short address to the people; but in such low tones as to be inaudible, save to a few in his immediate vicinity. [5]
Her only delight seemed to be in listening to Gifted as he read, sometimes with fine declamatory emphasis, sometimes in low, tremulous tones, the various poems enshrined in his manuscript. [6]
Then, as we sat talking in low tones, the door opened, and a hearty voice cried out: "Now where is this rebel, this traitor? [9]
What paternal gentleness Rudolph's deep tones expressed! [10]
When Prince Vasili returned to the drawing room, the princess, his wife, was talking in low tones to the elderly lady about Pierre. [2]
She found herself repeating, in meaningless, subdued tones, the words, "twenty-two ninety-nine. [9]
Never had the red mosaic inscription seemed to shine so bright and friendly, and she heard her name called in delighted tones from the kitchen. [10]
As she finished reading her account, she exclaimed in the passionate tones of the deepest conviction, "There, doctor! [6]
Single tones had reached his ears, but he did not feel in the mood to descend the stairs. [10]
But Archibius now raised himself, left the couch, passed his hand across his brow, and in the deep, calm tones natural to his voice, began with a sorrowful smile: "A man stricken by an arrow leaves the fray to have his wound bandaged. [10]
The latter listened quietly, and in deep, faltering tones answered in broken sentences: "The lawlessness in the camp--ay, it is ruining the people! [10]
Then the pirate's promised bride lowered her voice again, and did not raise her tones until she saw in imagination the fulfilment of the judgment which she was calling down upon the man who had torn her heart with such pitiless cruelty. [10]
Then a thin, pale soldier, his neck bandaged with a bloodstained leg band, came up and in angry tones asked the artillerymen for water. [2]
These were my own thoughts as I listened to the tones of the priest as they came, droningly, out of the door, while Nick was exchanging jokes in doubtful French with some half-breeds leaning against the palings. [9]
Both were bent over the map, talking in eager tones. [11]
High above every other voice rose the shrill tones of a man who had just arrived from Carthage, and who boasted of personal friendship with the venerable Tertullian. [10]
All were silent or talked in low tones. [2]
This statement elicited opposition, expressed in several quarters in low tones, and from one seat loudly, and Herr Berthold heard it. [10]
I gazed long on the river, and my guards, stoutly armed, stood near, watching me, and talking in low tones. [11]
His tones took on a nasal twang. [9]
Teachers and students of theology get a certain look, certain conventional tones of voice, a clerical gait, a professional neckcloth, and habits of mind as professional as their externals. [6]
He is one of the two men at our table who most need the tender looks and tones of a woman. [6]
At the sound of his voice, Gifted Hopkins smote his forehead, and called himself, in subdued tones, a miserable being. [6]
The low tones of her voice were of a richness indescribable. [9]

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