fum!Gigantic intonations. Rigmarole,-Discourse, incoherent and rhapsodical.

The strains were sweet, and the intonations plaintive to melancholy.

This habit of varying his notes through so many permutations, and the singularly fine intonations of many of them, entitle the Song-Sparrow to a very high rank as a singing-bird.

But her voice seemed sadly small and thin in comparison with Victor's rotund and measured intonations.

I must try to recall the intonations that came so naturally last evening, and see whether I can act what I then felt."

They were never weary of listening to that volume of sound, so full and clear, so flexible in its modulations, so expressive in its intonations.

Olga was an adept at pantomimic action, and a natural mimic; hence, although he could only understand a word here and there, he obtained an accurate idea of the conversation between her father and the governor, and of her father's calm manner, and the gestures and intonations of apparent friendship but veiled menace.

His intonations and manner of expressing himself pleased her fancy.

These children are often very beautiful and graceful, and their comical little gestures and intonations, their clasping of hands and rolling up of eyes, have a very amusing and interesting effect.

But his voice, his intonations, and his whimsical idea about Molly fitted in with the conception of an "impossible" as little as with the actual visible facts of his ragged shirt-sleeves and faded, earth-stained overalls.

'You know when the husband meets the wife he has divorced?' Hubert remembered the moment referred to, and, with anxious, doubting eyes, the comedian sought from the author justification for some intonations and gestures which seemed to him to form part and parcel of the nature of the man whose drunkenness he had so admirably depicted on his face.

The slang that served for dialogue in her part was delivered in all sorts of intonations, now demure and mischievous, anon strident and mock tragic.

your Ladyship, Ma'am," he said, in tones that were getting tremulous, even while they retained the deep characteristic intonations of his profession, "we old sea-dogs never stop to look into an almanac, to see which way the wind will come after the next thaw, before we put to sea.

The songs of the mariners were rising on the calm of the morning with their peculiar, long-drawn intonations.

And why do you imagine the young man to be so much our inferior?" Wilder thought there was a melody in the intonations of the youthful voice of the maiden, which in some measure excused the personality, as she answered.

But the lowest and the deepest of its intonations reached the most distant ear, and no one who heard was left to doubt its meaning.

The unusual intonations did not entirely escape the ears of some of the elder seamen; and looks of peculiar meaning were exchanged among them, as they paused to catch his words.

Never were the long-drawn intonations of the chants and prayers of the Church pervaded by a more terrible, wild fervor than the Superior that night breathed into them.

" This notable oration had been delivered by the young King with all the monotonous intonations of a studied recital, and was terminated by a sigh of relief as he saw himself near the conclusion of the comedy.

The strange melody and unusual intonations induced me to look out, when, to my astonishment, I found that the fair songstress was a most hideous-looking negress!

They use the most extravagant gesturesastounding bellowingsa canting hypocritical whineslow and solemn, although by no means musical intonations, and the et ceteras that complete the qualifications of a regular camp-meeting methodist parson.

Could then a glance, could even the tender intonations of that unrivalled voice, and the dark passion of that speaking eye, work in an instant such marvels?

In spite of the fact that he laughed, she knew he was quite in earnest, and she wondered why he hadn't discerned her compliant mood from her intonations.

There must be nothing feigned or hypocritical; no hackneyed phrases used without meaning, or intonations of assumed solemnity.

His low, deep intonations conveyed a solemn suggestion of the sepulchre.