The Rabbi treated us with wine, but one of us, moved by curiosity, having touched the bottle, he remarked to his daughter in an under-tone; "It's all gone," (the rest of the wine is spoiled).

"What have we here, Jacopo?" he demanded, in an under-tone, of the gondolier who steered his own barge.

"What insolence!" muttered Beth in an under-tone but audible enough to be distinctly heard.

To hear a person spout Shakspeare on the stage is nothingthe charm is nearly worn outbut to hear any one spout Shakspeare (and that not in a sneaking under-tone, but at the top of his voice, and with the full breadth of his chest) from a Calvinistic pulpit, is new and wonderful.

While they were thus occupied, Judith, who had fixed her greedy eyes upon the plate, observed, in an under-tone, to Chowles, "There will be fine plunder for us.

It is a bad case," he added in an under-tone to Leonard.

Shortly after this the sick man was brought out, stretched upon a pallet, borne by Chowles and Judith; and the party proceeded slowly, and occasionally relieving each other, to the great western entrance, where a coach being procured by Pillichody, Parravicin was placed within it, with Judith and Chowles; and orders being given in an under-tone to the driver, he departed.

The good dame, who was a middle-aged woman, with pleasing features, which lost none of their interest from being stamped with profound melancholy, gazed at her for a moment fixedly, and then observed in an under-tone, but with much emotion, to her husband, "Ah! Robert, how much this sweet creature resembles our poor Sarah!" "Hush! hush!

Charles smiled at his favourite's rebuff, but, in common with the others, he could not help being struck by Amabel's extraordinary beauty and natural dignity, and he observed, in an under-tone, to Etherege, "Is it possible this can be a grocer's daughter?"

"Pooch, a dizzen o' them, my lort!" replied M'Kay in the same under-tone.

Lightnings blast it!but that's impossible," he added, in a fearful under-tone, which sounded as if some of the eternal rocks around him were adding a response to his imprecations"that's impossible!

The memorable lines placed in the mouth of his "Night," sufficiently display his feeling after the final return of the Medici in 1530: Sweet is my sleep, but more to be mere stone, So long as ruin and dishonour reign; To hear nought, to feel nought, is my great gain: Then wake me not, speak in an under-tone.

There was a moment when blood was in danger of being shed, but Betts's hand was stayed by hearing, in good English, the words "Where are you bound, shipmate?" This question was asked in a guarded, under-tone, a circumstance that reassured Bob, quite as much as the language.

He said a great deal, using every argument it is possible to imagine; and there was always the same threatening under-tone.

This officer bows deeply and respectfully, and gives his sentinel a short order in an under-tone.

And throughout the 'Spectator' we may find a Christian under-tone in Addison's intolerance of infidelity, which is entirely wanting when the moralist is Eustace Budgell.

Mount gave a round double rap, chewed his grass-stem, considered, then rapped again, humming to himself in an under-tone: "Is the old fox in?

Lanyere looked with a smile of triumph at the extortioner, and then turning to Sir Jocelyn, who seemed half disposed to make an attack upon his enemy, said in an under-tone, "Harm him not.