tone of voice

• ““Mr. Mercier would like to see you,” he said, in the tone of voice he probably reserved for the pool cleaner and the chauffeur.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Killing Kind

• ““I shared a gig with Octavianus once,” Pollio said, tone of voice musing.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “I swiveled my head to ask Wolfe if it was in the Cijevna that he and Marko had got trout, and he said yes, but in a tone of voice that did not invite conversation, so I let it lie.”

  The Black Mountain

• “According to Soal, Cooper gave a “lifelike reproduction of the mannerisms of speech, tone of voice and accent” of Davis.”

  Simon & Schuster: Experiencing the Next World Now

• “And then one day I heard my mother and her friend Lindo Jong both talking in a loud bragging tone of voice so others could hear.”

  The Joy Luck Club

• ““Kay, I know how it works,” he said in that give-it-a-rest tone of voice I remembered so well.”

  Simon & Schuster: Body of Evidence

• “His caring tone of voice alone had made the word-pictures bearable.”

  Come To Grief

• “Halle had thought that she might be falling in love with him, but then one evening he had spoken to Tony in a tone of voice that could only be described as fatherly.”

  Lunatics

• “His tone of voice made it clear that any such statement would be taken as grounds for a preemptory strike.”

  Phule me twice

• “If something needs to be done, I do it, I told him in a tone of voice that would engrave the words in his brain.”

  Simon & Schuster: Olivia

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