In the monotone illustrations there appear two remarkable works by this painter from the collection of Mr. Pierpont Morgan.
In our opinion the finest miniature Cosway ever produced was his unfinished sketch of Madame du Barry, one of the greatest treasures of Mr. Pierpont Morgan's collection, and by his kind permission illustrated here in monotone (Plate XII.
Other men pitched their voices higher then, giving up the cautious monotone of the preceding conference.
There was a dominant monotone above all the talk and the cackle of laughter; ears were dinned everlastingly by the thunder of the cataract near the village.
Latisan heard, long before he came in sight of them, the shrill yells with which sled load interchanged repartee with sled load; everlastingly there was the monotone of the singers.
It is very difficult to say when the use of the monotone generally dropped and gave place to our modern careless unecclesiastical polytone.
But, unquestionably, whenever the services can be correctly performed, when the priest can monotone his part, and the people sing theirs, then the services ought to be so performed.
I could hear my father's footsteps going softly about upstairs; and his voice, which though quick and crisp, had a soothing quality, talking in a gentle monotoneto some one.
The "music" began to be heard, a measured monotone of drums, a breath of voices in a recitative chant, slightly impassioned by that vanished gallon.
The boatman paced slowly to and fro, his voice chording in its dull monotone with the smothered savage muttering in the negro's brain.
To be agreeable, it is not necessary to be amusing; an essay may be thoroughly delightful without a single witticism, while a monotone of jokes soon grows tedious.
Much of the reading we hear is monotonous in the extreme, while the judicious use of the monotone would sufficiently vary it, to render it attractive.
Monotone is of great importance in reading the Bible, the beautiful words of the Church Service, and in prayer, and the haste with which these solemn words are often slurred over, is much to be deplored.
Monotone is usually accompanied by slow time, and it is, in fact, a low Orotund.
The climax of "The Bells" is the muffled monotone of ghouls, who glory in weighing down the human heart.
In The Raven sound and color preserve their monotone and we have no change of place or occasion.
As they bent over Deane they began to chant a low monotone which awakened little Isobel, who sat up and stared sleepily at the strange scene.
In a low, clacking monotonethey began to speak, and there was no expression of grief in their voices.
The breaking of the ice, the moaning discontent in the air, and the growling monotone of the giant currents had driven other men mad; but they held a fascination for him.
They stood and listened, heard only the rumbling monotone of the drifting ice-- not the breath of a sound from the scores of men and dogs.
The zipp, zipp, zipp of the tails of his snow-shoes was the only sound he heard except the first faint, hissingmonotone of the aurora in the northern skies, which came to him like the shivering run of steel sledge runners on hard snow.
He could never hear their feet when they came, but all night he must listen for any change in Ben's breathing or any call from him, such a sound as might be smothered by fire noises or the small narcotic monotone of the snow.
Reuben was still speaking, too; the empty silver monotone reached Jesse's consciousness and he pulled himself to erectness.
The patient monotone had ceased, Ben never knowing the moment.
Down below boomed a slow monotoneof breakers on a long flat beach.
I'm going to have a rare old rout out this morning," Jenny announced when she woke up to the sight of an apparently infinitely wet day, a drench in a gray monotone of sky from dawn to nightfall.
His lips were never remarkably red, and as the evening advanced they adopted the exact shade of his complexion, which from paleness took on the lifeless monotone of color that is seen in the rain-soaked petal of a pink rose.
The gentle breathing of May and the swish of the hairbrush joined the stream of rain without in a monotone of whisperings that sighed endless round Jenny's vivid thoughts.
Unblessed by mirage, they traveled steadily through a monotonetowards an horizon of brass.
And so his life would lose itself in a monotone of discontent.
Michael changed his place and the young man talked in a low whisper, while the bell rang itsmonotone upon the gusts which swept howling round the church.
The logs were now wrapped in flame, and their low mellow roaring mingled to a monotone with the droning of the cat on his knees.
The grind, grind, grind of the mammoth crushers, which sound as a perpetual monotone to the townspeople, is lost on the ears of Ethel and Harvey.
Between these interludes of dramatic rendering, the thread of the story was held in a quick, clear monotone easily followed.
The monotone of the rain became rhythmic with some ancient, primeval melody, which the woods sang before their solitude had been invaded by the eager feet of men always searching for something which they do not possess.
And all this speech was in a monotone of quiet explanation.
She proceeded in a forced monotone which seemed to allow her hardly a single full breath.
Often heard in the concert room, this nocturne gives us a surfeit of sixths and thirds of elaborate ornamentation and monotone of mood.
It drips in cadenced monotoneand its song is repeated on the lips of the slender-hipped girl with the eyes of midnight--and so might I weave for you a story of what I see in the Ballade and you would be aghast or puzzled.
But otherwise, nothing outside the sum of noises he could know the day by from the night, a monotone with here and there a special sound of beast or bird or insect.
He could hear his own heart beating in the stillness, even through the monotone of a cricket somewhere close at hand.
After supper Swickey lay stretched lazily on a camp-blanket near the stove, with Beelzebub purring a satisfied monotone as he lay curled in the hollow of her arm.
Below lay the gorge through which the river plunged and thundered, its diapason sounding a low monotone over the three cabins on the hillside, its harsher notes muffled by the intervening trees.
A plaintive, tremulous voice began to recite in monotone some stanzas which told how very sad and mournful the whole scene was.
The band of youngsters playing in the street were staring up at the moon as though they had never seen it before, singing in cadenced monotone with silvery little voices: La lluna, la pruna Vestida de dol .
The monotone of la lluna la pruna came to an end, and peace settled over the moon-lit country-side.
And my dear little boy He laugheth with joy When he heareth the monotone Of that busy thing That loveth to sing The song that is all its own.
Sitting on a rock at the edge of the clover-field, she listened to the drowsymonotone of innumerable wings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monotone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
