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He was quick to note the changed tone of the brutes' pursuit, plaintive, anxious, consciously thwarted.— The Crucial Moment 1911
All their songs are plaintive, and contain modulations of the voice so mysteriously charming in effect, and so good in tone, that they really affect one profoundly.— In the Forbidden Land

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