"The Fairy was never more seen; but her enchanting
tones have often been heard.
Yes, everybody was unanimous on the subject, except one, who said that the bell was too small and too fine to be heard at so great a distance, and besides it was very different
tones to those that could move a human heart in such a manner.
Quiet had been everywhere restored, except in Buckingham's heart; he, in his impatience, addressed himself to the princess, in a low
tone of voice: "For Heaven's sake, madame, I implore you to hasten your disembarkation.
His
tone had hurt her--his
tone had roused her sinking courage.
"Who's there?" cried the learned man, in the gracious
tone of a famished dog, disturbed over his bone.
But this we forget on hearing
tones; how delightful it is that we forget!
"Do you know what the present is?" she asked, in lowered
tones, speaking absently.
"I am glad I was able to do you a service, my dear Anna Mikhaylovna," said Prince Vasili, arranging his lace frill, and in
tone and manner, here in Moscow to Anna Mikhaylovna whom he had placed under an obligation, assuming an air of much greater importance than he had done in Petersburg at Anna Scherer's reception.
`Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a
tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
The even
tone has two variations differing from each other only in pitch; the oblique
tone has three variations, known as "Rising, Sinking, and Entering." In a seven-syllable verse the odd syllables can have any
tone; as regards the even syllables, when the second syllable is even, then the fourth is oblique, and the sixth even.
She could never let things be (this in a peculiar
tone which he checked at once) and he really would take it very kindly of me if I came to break the tete-e-tete for a while (that is if I had no other engagement.
"Why didn't you have your courses hauled up at once, then?" he asked in a
tone that ought to have made my blood run cold.
