420 examples of undertoned in sentences

Then on a sudden inspiration, he once more laid hold of the bridle and began to speak volubly in a hoarse undertone: "W'y, name o' God, Mr. Stoddard!

From the steady, comfortable purr which had undertoned all sounds in the tiny glen, the machine burst at once into a deep-toned roar.

He always spoke of the "Stuarts" in an undertone, as if he were afraid they might even yet come back and make "rough house" for King Edward.

"There's that horrid wretch Ardmore," she murmured in an undertone.

" "Hath he invited our wandering prince to Virginia?" "Sh! speak not so loud," said Hugh in an undertone.

He led the sheriff aside and spoke hurriedly with him in an undertone, which no one could hear.

"I wish he'd use a cane," muttered Beth in an undertone.

" Kitty laughed, and, wagging her head to and fro, sang in a merry little undertone, "Taffy is a Welshman, Taffy is a thief Flaunting as a Yankee man; that's my belief.

The advantages to be gained by adopting the suggested action apparently appealed to the members, and their general approval of it impressed the President, for he asked me in an undertone if I had prepared the resolution.

The young fellow sitting near me winked; and the divinity-student said, in an undertone,Optime dictum.

It begins in rocky caverns, As a voice that chaunts alone To the pedals of the organ In monotonous undertone; And anon from shelving beaches, And shallow sands beyond, In snow-white robes uprising The ghostly choirs respond.

he said in an undertone.

he said in a sharp undertone.

Margaret asked, in an undertone. 'Yes.

The congregation immediately began with their feet a tramp, tramp, tramp, in time with the preacher's march in the pulpit, all the while singing in an undertone a hymn about marching to Zion.

And so many of these songs contain more than mere melody; there is sounded in them that elusive undertone, the note in music which is not heard with the ears.

While this was passing, the Earl of Rochester observed, in an undertone to Leonard, "You have made a mortal foe of Lord Argentine, but I will protect you.

They may be heard through the day, if one listens, like a solemn undertone to all the shallow noises of the town; but at midnight, when all else is still, those successive shocks fall upon the ear with a sensation of inexpressible solemnity.

We sat downstairs, at a table at the back, and there I told him, in what hardly needed to be an undertone, of the rumours that were being circulated about him.

"It is over," said the parent in an undertone.

Then the very voice that said these words, that voice of veiled strength and manly daring, that spoke with such a gentle pleading, and yet such an undertone of authority, as if he had a right to claim her for himself,she seemed to feel the tones of that voice in every nerve;and then the strange thrilling pleasure of thinking that he loved her so.

He looked at her with a grin, and asked in an undertone, 'Any good?'

His voice was undertoned, but mellow and agreeable.

The buzzer of the Master's phone broke the silence between the two men, a silence undertoned by the throb and hum of the now effectively operating engines.

General Grant, at Culpepper, a few weeks prior to crossing the Rapidan for the Wilderness, expressed to a visitor his impression of the impulse and the spectacle: Said he: "I never saw any thing like it:" language which seems curiously undertoned, considering its application; but from the taciturn Commander it was equivalent to a superlative or hyperbole from the talkative.

420 examples of  undertoned  in sentences