With goodwill too for the Aiakidai in Pelion sang the Muses' choir most fair, and in the midst Apollo playing with golden quill upon his seven-toned lyre led them in ever-changing strains.

He cultivates the low-toned tête-à-tête, keeping his hat carefully in his hand and often stroking it, while he smiles with downcast eyes, as if to relieve his feelings under the pressure of the remarkable conversation which it is his honour to enjoy at the present moment.

Church bells in the United States and England are usually sweet-toned and intended to invite the hearer to come to service, or else they ring out in joyous peals to announce some festive occasion.

Deep-toned, earth-shaking crashes broke into the quiet peaceful air.

This to be followed by flames leaping high into the air, whilst low-toned monotonous chanting would break out from the assembly.

But it was noticeable that when their turns came to stand up and address the mejlis their advocacy was considerably toned down.

He had found the means of collecting some well-toned wind instruments to form an introduction, and produce the desired temper of thought and feeling.

Once a week they emerged and crossed the common, catching on its summit the first sounds of the sweet-toned bells, calling them to church.

There was an eagerness, and perhaps a trepidation, in the voice of Wilder, as he issued the necessary orders, that was in remarkable contrast to the deep-toned calmness which characterized the utterance of the Rover.

To the actual ignorance or obfuscation of mind of the majority of the English people, as regards our country and its institutions, we are doubtless to refer much of the ill-toned and seemingly unfriendly comments made upon our affairs in their organs.

In the church is a fine-toned organ.

There has since been erected a fine-toned organ.

The interior is fitted up to correspond with the exterior, and therein is affixed a fine-toned organ.

It has an elegant entrance through a capacious saloon, at the extremity of which there is a noble flight of stairs, leading to an elegant and spacious assembly room, in length, including the orchestra, wherein there is a handsome and fine-toned organ, eighty feet, and in breadth thirty-three feet.

We cannot help picturing to ourselves the anxiety, the singularly deep and thrilling interest, which universally prevails as his last hour approaches: "Hark the deep-toned chime of that bell As it breaks on the midnight ear Seems it not tolling a funeral knell? 'Tis the knell of the parting year!

As they came nearer, a strange, rhythmic throbbing crept to his ears; nearer still, he resolved it into the slow, regular beatings of a flat-toned drum.

And then his ears responded again to the slow chant and the constant measured beat of the flat-toned, vibrant drum.

"The tall dark mountains and the deep toned seas.

The beauty of the full-toned Ronisch piano, and Everard's clever and sympathetic accompanying, caused me to forget my audience, and sing as though to myself alone, forgetting that my voice was odd.

Perhaps the analytical mode in which he exercised his studies of human life tended to confine his observation to the more energetic feelings of pride, anger, ambition, and other high-toned passions.

High above this deep-toned concussion came the cry of the shellsthat long carrying buzzlike a monstrous, angry bee rushing away from a burning hivewhich rises into a shrill singing note before ending and bursting into the final boom which scatters death.

He wound up his sermon by deploring the tendency to atheism which he had noticed "among those merchants who had recently gone up with the caravans to Babylon for spices" (this was just his high-toned way of describing Deacon Wiggleford's trip to Chicago in a day-coach for groceries), and hoped that the goods which they had brought back were better than the theology.

My wife and I, accompanied by the "Triplets," on the front seat of our carriage as drivers, canvassed the entire town, asking all we met to lay up treasures in heaven by "rescuing the perishing," and we soon secured money to buy a fine toned organ and to hire a wideawake pastor.

Above, on the stair landing, a deep-toned clock began to strike midnight and every one cried “Merry Christmas!” and “Olivia’s won!” and there was more hand-clapping, in which I joined with good will.

I never had anything much to do with him, because he died when I was a little baby, and his name had nothing high-toned about it, and it seemed to me to belong to that kind of a family that you would be better satisfied with the less you looked up its beginnings; but my mother's family was a different thing.