Never shall you hear anything wintry from his warm breast; no pinched cheeping, no wavering notes between sorrow and joy; his mellow, fluty voice is ever tuned to downright gladness, as free from dejection as cock-crowing.

He had a fluty old tenor voice, and he put in turns and quavers that no ear not of the mountains could possibly follow and fix.

When it drops off a notebut you will not know it except the Douglas squirrel tells you with his high, fluty chirrup from the pines' aerial gloomsign that some star watcher has caught the first far glint of the nearing sun.

She wore her missus' gayest clothes, Her muslin dress all fluty, Her waterfall and tag-rags all, Which well became her beauty.

Once more in the vast cathedral, with throngs of the living choking its aisles, amidst jubilant peals from the cavernous depths of the great organ, and choral melodies ringing from the fluty throats of the singing boys.

Their lips let off the fluty syllables just as their fingers would sprinkle the music-drops from their pianos; unconscious habit turns the phrase of thought into words just as it does that of music into notes.

I forget what he saidsomething about the matches not lighting properly, and afterwards as he talked he kept stopping the waiters one by one as they went by, and telling them about the matches in that thin, fluty voice he has.

But the tone in which she said it caused him a second thrill almost more delightful than the first, for the quality was low and fluty, like the gentle note of some mellow wind instrument, and the caressing way she pronounced his name was a revelation.

No sound but the monotonous, unemotional clock, and the woodpecker's fluty laugh from the orchard.

"Revenez, revenez, beaux jours de mon enfance," he began, in a small, tremulous, fluty voice.