But the congregation leads him on, to deeper thoughts, to nobler words, to modulations of voice that carry him quite beyond himself.

It is only adding musical modulation to what a fine understanding might actually utter in the midst of its griefs or enjoyments.

Does he sing with peculiar modulations from the regular into a falsetto voice?

The process may be compared to a modulation in music, in which some of the tones in a chord are retained while others are displaced by new ones.

A Primer for practical keyboard modulation for the piano.

There is an earnest unctuous modulation about it, which, as a rule, is acquired after men have flung overboard the common idioms of secular life.

It was still May and the North Carolina mountain-side that John Wollaston looked out upon was at the height of its annual debauch of azalea blooms, a symphonic romance in the key of rose-color with modulations down to strawberry and up to a clear singing white.

Cato reproached another senator with the fact, that he had the effrontery to deliver Greek recitations with the due modulation at Greek revels.

Mac's voice was machine-madeas innocent of modulation as a buzz-saw, and with the same uncompromising finality as the shooting of a bolt.