406 Verbs to Use for the Word toning

" As regards harmonistic difficulties of the Old and New Testaments, he assumes the same confident tone of bold assertion without feeling any obligation to notice the solutions that have been suggested.

Even when the grand anthem had swelled to its highest pitch, I could distinctly hear the varying tones of individual trees,Spruce, and Fir, and Pine, and leafless Oak,and even the infinitely gentle rustle of the withered grasses at my feet.

I changed my tone.

His voice took a tone of expostulation: "Is this right to come here?

She gives you pure tone, which is what hardly any other singer does.

All the same, Dundas, more especially because he was a cabinet minister, was even more injudicious when he adopted a tone of reproof towards Carleton, whose great services, past and present, entitled him to unusual respect and confidence.

If you would catch the tones of separate needles, climb a tree.

' I spent a weary half-hour in this endeavour, and as it now seemed evident to me that no considerable shop could belong to the object of my search, I lowered my tone in addressing an old apple-woman, who sat behind a table covered with her stores at the corner of the street.

"But at the same time, I didn't like the tone of the third officer just now.

Indeed, it altered the whole tone of the defence.

I caught myself wondering whether he would recover tone were he again to put to sea.

Mary dropped her rallying tone and went on gravely: "Unless I'm treated with confidence and sincerity, I can't continue to attend Mr. Saffron.

It was the animosities of party politics that set the general tone.

It was as unnatural to use the tone of command or rebuke to one for whom my unexpressed wishes were absolute law, as to observe the form of request or advice in directing or reproving those whose obedience depended on the consequences of rebellion.

But quickly, as though conscious that, if he had raised the moral tone of the company, he had not raised its spirits, he hurried on: "Before I sit down, gentlemen, just one word more.

The sweet freshness of her new existence was rapidly restoring tone to her mental system, and life no longer seemed a hopeless task.

" I had never before heard the old man speak in so despondent a tone, and it seemed an evil omen, coming as the words did when we were ready to plunge into the most dangerous portion of the work.

The Goldman band system for developing tone, intonation, phrasing.

" "Well, Hill," said Rolfe, resuming his severe official tone; "all this does not excuse in any way your conduct in coming over here and forcing your way into the house in defiance of the police; opening this desk, and prying about for private papers that don't concern you.

A woman of leisure, for want of suitable mental pabulum, grows to fancy she has every ill that flesh is heir to, whereas, when she is obliged by compelling circumstances to put her muscles into practice, her mind acquires a more healthy tone.

But though more than twenty years have passed since his death, I remember his tone of voice, his walk, his way of handling a crutch, all his tricks of speech and conduct as though he had just left the room.

They will strengthen the tone of your mind after its weak diet on acrostics.

The process which gives rise to alcohol in a saccharine fluid is known tones as "fermentation"; a term based upon the apparent boiling up or "effervescence" of the fermenting liquid, and of Latin origin.

"By the way, boys," he went on, imitating Laura's tone to perfection, "that's one important thing we haven't decided, yet.

The poor woman was aboard before I knew it, and I found myself too weak to withstand her imploring looks and Flora's pleading tones."

406 Verbs to Use for the Word  toning