There was no uncertain note in the answer; if anything, there was in it more than the usual toneless decision.

"She is a bride," explained Mavity Bence in a flatted, toneless voice.

the cruel, toneless words!After my tedious recovery I made an effort to see Mrs. Weston, although I had conceived a horror of the woman, but she was gone.

she repeated in a toneless voice every item of the programme outlined for her, while Victor nodded in undisguised delight, and Shaik Tsin grinned blandly over her head.

"Pleasure!" "Aren't you looking forward to this rout or revel?" "Oh, I suppose it'll be all right," he said, in a toneless voice.

"Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school," proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.

" His voice dropped on her aching heart with the toneless weight of finality.

"To think," she said, and her voice was toneless now, "to think that I loved you!

In spite of the invariable good taste with which it was used, American men, accustomed to the toneless speech of the race, and jealously suspicious of anything approaching art in everyday life, distrusted Morrison at the first sound of his voice.

As he saw her stoop to pick them up, he said in French, in a toneless voice, very indifferently: "Don't give yourself the trouble.

The past had simply ceased to exist for him; and because it is some way the key to the future, the latter seemed likewise blank,a toneless gray that did not in the least waken his interest.

The SOMETHING toneless, which Speaks awfully to men, Startling the poor and rich, For CONSCIENCE will talk then; These are the watch-words drear, The Voices of the Night, Which harrow the sick ear, The stricken heart affright!

The Queen said in a toneless voice, "We ride for Blackfriars now.

" The low answer was toneless.

There was silence in the tiny cottage parlor as the young girl made this extraordinary announcement in a firm if toneless voice, without flinching and meeting with a sort of stubborn pride the five pairs of eyes which were now riveted upon her.

interposed Sir Marmaduke, striving to sneer, although his voice sounded quite toneless, for his throat was parched and his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, "by Gad! 'twere vastly interesting to hear your ladyship's views.

A dull, toneless voice sounded in the Master's ears.

"You'll kill me if you talk like that to me!" "Like that," he repeated in a stunned toneless voice.

He spoke mostly in a toneless drawl, that sometimes turned into a shrill whine, but also at rare intervals could change into a soft, heart-winning purr.