49 collocations for tone

PHOTOGRAPHY.Experiments in Toning Gelatino-Chloride Paper.

This would indicate that an unusually large proportion of the toned image consists of gold, and this idea is confirmed by the fact that to tone a sheet of gelatino-chloro-citrate paper requires several times as much gold as to tone a sheet of albumenized paper.

Claire needs something to tone her nerves up.

The corners of the room were already dark; all was growing dim, and the gloom was insensibly toning my mind, already prepared for what was sinister.

In such cases he often recommended a dash to Paris or London, just to tone up the nervous system.

Yes; and Marie too, laughing merrily; and among their shriller tones the voice of Thurnall.

The plan has evidently been to make a selection of the natural features to form the leading ideas of the new scenery, to magnify the most important quality of each of these, and to remove or tone down all the irregularities of the ground between them, and by all means to make the limit of vision undefined and obscure.

It will 'tone down' the color of my hair.

Ten minutes later she emerged in the limp and clinging little frock that toned down her colour and made her plumpness seem but rounded charm.

I could not see her face; but there was in her whole attitude and tone the heartiest content and delight.

" "His energies must have been toned up a good deal," said the Bee-man.

And," he added cunningly and with evil intent to flatter and cajole, "I can tone down that design of yours without affecting its beauty and originality at all.

All became still a moment, then they commenced the lofty song: "Silent bending, each one lending To the solemn tones his ear, Hark, the song of songs is sounding Back from joyful choir resounding, Hear it, German brothers, hear!

He was cheered by the warmth of her piety and her unwavering faith, while his more logical and better disciplined mind would no doubt moderate and tone down her excess of introspection and rapt emotion.

Having been fireman ten years, and foreman of a hose company six years, he knew by large experience how long it took to tone down a black eye or reduce a puffed cheek.

But there is nothing like work for toning down excessive fear or joy.

The pointed beard of Monsieur Duchemin was no more; and a little stain, artfully applied, had toned the newly exposed flesh to match the tan of the rest.

The women sometimes drowned the men; the boy often got into a shrill mood; but the men finally reached the surface, the women quietly subsided, the boy toned down his forces somewhat; and on the whole the singing was well done.

After piling up the agony for a few months at St. Peter's, Mr. Alker left for Dublin, stayed there a short time, then retraced his steps to Preston, and in due time got the incumbency of St. Mary'san event which seems to have toned down all his fury about the "abomination of Rome," and made him nearly quite forget the existence of Pope Pius.

The winds and the snow and the rain had toned all Torre Garda down to a cool gray-green against which the four cypress trees on the terrace stood rigid like sentinels keeping eternal guard over the valley.

That Jonson has even sought to tone down such harshness of contrast as he found is noticeable in his treatment of a recognized figure of burlesque like Friar Tuck, who is throughout portrayed with decorum and respect.

I get over my photographic difficulty very easily by throwing the sharp portrait a little out of focus, by eliminating such portraits as have exceptional features, and by toning down the illumination to a standard intensity.

Upon the rocky slopes the maples were on fire; in the valley the large leaves of the walnut-trees mimicked the sunshine, and by the river-side the tall poplars, as they bowed to the water deities, cast upon the mirror of many tones the image of a trembling golden leaf repeated beyond all power of numbering.

That hand will tone down its great distinctive individualities and give it the modern uniformity of design, face and feature.

On the other hand, the operator assured me that when he had toned the intensities of a pure red and a pure green in a certain proportion, the person ceased to be able to distinguish between them!

49 collocations for  tone