13811 examples of tones in sentences

Soon the night-wind began to flow and pour in torrents among the jagged peaks, mingling strange tones with those of the waterfalls sounding far below; and as I drifted toward sleep I began to experience an uncomfortable feeling of nearness to the furred Monos.

Not strange, perhaps, for Mr. MCLAUGHLIN, whose very youth in New York, where he was an active politician, found him a frequent nightly familiar of the Tombs; but strange for the organist, who, although often grave in his manner, sepulchral in his tones, and occasionally addicted to coughin', must be curiously eccentric to wish to pass into concert that evening with the dead heads.

And trumpet tones are ringing in the gale! Hurrah-hurrah!

Papa, anxious to watch the unfolding of the human mind, and its gradual development, would take the baby-prodigy in his arms, and with keen glance directed upon its face, repeat, in thrilling tones, the sublime words.

Then Simeon himself, taking the paper from him, read the apology in such tones that none could fail to hear.

" When the men went into the drawing-room Muriel Tredworth made a sign to Kelson; he joined her and, sitting down some distance apart from the rest, they carried on in low tones what seemed to be a serious conversation.

It was a man's voice, and its tones were angry.

They came up to me and bade me come with them in tones which were peremptory enough; but what of that?better the most peremptory supervision than the lawlessness from which I had come.

"Naow," said Mrs. Homan in her most commanding tones at the end of a final discussion in the big hall, on the evening before the date set for departure, "ef yew're bound, bent, an' determined, Brother Abe, to run in the face of Providence, yew want tew mind one thing, an' wear yer best set of flannels ter-morrer.

I have also heard the dulcet chimings of many village church bells in various parts of the land, and I have listened with undelight to the unmusical tones of Big Ben of Westminster, but so far as mellow tone is concerned, I rarely hear any ordinary church bells that are more dulcet and harmonious than the bells of St. Martin's, Birmingham.

This promptly brought to his feet Lord Brougham, who said in very emphatic tones, "Allow me to sayand I have had some experience of public meetingsthat if any persons attempt to disturb the proceedings of this meeting, measures shall be taken to expel them.

Higher and stronger surged the tide of passionate eloquence, until every one felt that the icy barrier was beginning to yield,for tears were already seen on more than one of the faces now leaning breathlessly forward from the jury-box to listen,when all at once a dead silence fell throughout the hall: the voice whose organ-tones had been filling its remotest nook suddenly died away in a strange gurgle.

They exclaimed in the most sympathising tones: "Poverini! so far to go!three thousand miles of water!"

There is something in their silvery vibration, which is far more expressive than the ordinary tones of a bell.

I have often paused, deep in the night, to hear those clear tones, dropping down from the darkness, thrilling, with their full, tremulous sweetness, the still air of the lighted Strand, and winding away through dark, silent lanes and solitary courts, till the ear of the care-worn watcher is scarcely stirred with their dying vibrations.

I love these eloquent bells, and I think there must be many, living out a life of misery and suffering, to whom their tones come with an almost human consolation.

The white-haired physician and the nurse, at the farther end of the room, spoke together in low tones.

Watching him closely, Conrad Lagrange said, in his most sneering tones, "I trust, young man, that you are not failing to make good use of your opportunities.

Very quietly,almost reverently,they moved about; talking in low tones, as though half expectingthey knew not what.

" "I know," came in low tones from the other.

Somewhere, hidden in the depths of the orange grove, the soul of a true musician was seeking expression in the tones of a violin.

As he stood there,with his eyes fixed upon the mountains, listening to the spirit that spoke in the tones of the unseen instrument,Aaron King knew, all at once, that the passing moment was one of those rare momentsthat come, all unexpectedlywhen, with prophetic vision, one sees clearly the end of the course he pursues and the destiny that waits him at its completion.

Then, as her ear caught the tones of the violin, she half turnedbut only for a moment.

"It is impossible to imagine superior execution;" and elsewhere: "He renders the thoughts of the great masters with such brilliancy and strength, that their masterpieces are made accessible to the most stubborn intellect and the most hardened sensibilities are roused by his tones.

Upon which my instructor began to declaim in his most sonorous, most magisterial tones.

13811 examples of  tones  in sentences