The earnest tone of the council reflects the alarm that was everywhere felt, and it unquestionably led to renewed exertions, though only a few instances of successful activity chance to be recorded.
One of them observed the camera and said something in a low tone to the other; then the speaker walked down the bank, opened a little wicker door in the wall, and came out.
His tone was funereal and deliberate, his eyes steady and remorseless.
The last question was asked in so threatening a tone that the girl almost jumped.
They rallied round the standard of a prince they loved, lassie," said M'Nab, in a tone whose fervour contrasted with his former accent.
There may be good and sufficient ones, even though they should be purely personal to myself," said Talbot, in a tone of ill-dissembled pique.
Guardsman, that the society of St. James's possessed any superiority in tone or elegance over the evenings at "the Lodge.
The tone of voice in which the young man spoke, and the angry look which accompanied these words, threw a gloom over the party, and for some time nothing was said on either side.
Many among these were quickly singled out and surrounded by troops of eager and anxious friends, and the passing stranger might easily read in the tone and accent of the speaker his fortune, whether good or evil.
He's in no great humour for buying just now," interposed the O'Donoghue, with a voice to which some suddenly awakened recollection imparted a tone of considerable depression.
It would have been a difficult--nay, an almost impossible task, to recall the tone and temper of the party, previous to this unhappy interruption.
I think ye might as well read it out, as be mumbling it to yourself there," said she, in a tone seldom disputed in the realm she ruled.
Mrs. Stringham's tone in these last words gave so fully her meaning that Mrs. Lowder could but show herself as taking it in.
So he judged at least, within his limits, and the idea that what he had thus caught in the fact was the trick of fashion and the tone of society went so far as to make him take up again his sense of independence.
Besides, I think he must have written her first--written I mean in a tone to smooth his way.
The speech in question at least wasn't disloyal to Kate; that was the very tone of their bargain.
It came out in her very tone when at last she addressed him--so differently, for confidence--in words she had already used.
His tone however was so singular that she presently added: "You speak as if all this while you hadn't touched it.
It was as if his tone for this prompted--with a slight strangeness--her next demand.
This was Milly's tone when the matter was left to her.
His companion had before this taken him up, and in a tone to confirm her discretion, on the matter of Milly's not being his princess.
Her look and her tone made him for the instant regret his comment, which indeed had been the first that rose to his lips as an effect absolutely of what they would have called between them her straightness.
It took him a long time to answer, occupied as he partly was in feeling how nobody but Kate could have invested such a question with the tone that was perfectly right.
An Indian called "The Prophet" raised his voice very high, gesticulating and speaking rapidly in an angry tone as if he desired to excite the warriors to an attack.
The irregularity of its older streets, the tone of its architecture, the lack of the usual push and bustle of an American town, give it an old-world air that makes it interesting.
And her manner and tone spoke louder than words, saying, 'It is absurd to think so!
They are much more demonstrative than their neighbors, often shouting at the full strength of their voices when an ordinary tone would apparently suffice.
The wolves then said to themselves in a low tone of voice: "Let us go outside and see what our brother will do when he is left alone with the fat.
Far into the night the droning tone of her voice continues reciting the events of the past until one by one the listeners drowsily drop to sleep in the position they last assumed.
Then it had all the clearness for which it is even now distinguishable; and it had, besides, a witching softness of tone that knew no equal then, and that I have never heard exceeded since.
Admiral Penrose was cut to the quick by the slight put upon him, and he wrote to remonstrate with the Admiralty, but received in reply only a rebuke for expressing his indignation in a tone that the Admiralty did not relish.
This, I think, had led him to entertain a feeling of hostility to the bird, which he did not presume to indulge until my mother's tone and manner indicated that the cock was no longer under her protection.
He suggested "an improved finger-keyed musical instrument, in the use of which a performer is enabled to hold or prolong the notes, and to increase or modify the toneat pleasure.
Walpole was a thoroughly bad influence in English politics; he lowered the moral tone of a whole generation by his constant sneers at probity and patriotism.
For the last twenty-five years of its rule the tone of the great corporation was vastly improved, now that dividends were not the sole aim of its directors.
The tone of the court had a profound and unhappy influence on the manners of the day.
Their opponents accused them of allowing the army and navy to grow too weak, and of being compelled in consequence to assume a meek tone in dealing with the powers whom Palmerston had been wont to beard and threaten.
His voice, to be sure, had a latent tone of command.
The toneof her voice made Hollister quiver, it was so unexpected, so wistful.
No trouble, I assure you," Lewis hastened to assent, but his tone lacked heartiness, sincerity.
It struck him, though, that the tone of Mr. Lewis' inquiry bordered upon the anxious.
There was a defiant recklessness in her tone when she said: "Do you think I need a chaperone?
He did not believe she could endure that, she who loved beauty so, who was sensitive to subtleties of tone and atmosphere beyond any woman he had ever known.
There the artisans, instead of taking their tone from the students, had given the first impulse to reform.
I never heard of that,” interrupted Monks in a tone intended to appear incredulous, but savouring more of disagreeable surprise.
Mr. Bolter put his hand to his neckerchief as if he felt it inconveniently tight, and murmured an assent, qualified in tone but not in substance.
The kind tone of this answer, the sweet voice, the gentle manner, the absence of any accent of haughtiness or displeasure, took the girl completely by surprise, and she burst into tears.
The tone of forced gaiety in which the last words were spoken seemed to produce a deeper impression on Sikes than the wild and rigid look which had preceded them.
Her tone of voice was clear, though feeble; her manner solemn and collected; and her eye, though more dim than formerly, by no means wanting in liveliness as she spoke.
The sound was solemn; and in ascending to the elevated spot over which I rode, it acquired a peculiar tone and character.
The truth is that all laxity and extravagance in dealing with what in a large sense is certainly public property, approximates more or less to dishonesty, or at the least lowers the moral tone of the persons concerned.
What revolted him was not the exhibition of the human nature of the central figure, but of a human nature apart from and inconsistent with its divinity; the writer's admiring or patronisingtone was loathsome.
The charm of the princess, so visible at a distance, increases with the increase of nearness; the Queen's toneis delightful.
I was, on the whole, pleased with the tone of Gladstone's conversation.
I sometimes reflect how much less liberal as to domestic policy in any true sense of the word, is this government than was Sir Robert Peel's; and how much the tone of ultra-toryism prevails among a large portion of the liberal party.
The friendly critics," he said to Brand, "note a tone of despondency in my letter to Crawford.
Lowe thought the tone of it very fair and the arguments of the right sort, but nevertheless he added, in the words I have already quoted, "I fear he is steering straight upon the rocks.
I therefore hope and feel assured her Majesty will believe that Lord Clarendon really requires no intimation from me to ensure his steadily maintaining the tone which becomes the foreign minister of the Queen.
The glass varies from an amber toneto a dark bottle-green, but many are quite opaque and of a purplish black.
Footnote 164: In spite of what Milanesi says in his introduction, I strongly suspect this third treatise to be of a later date than the others; the whole tone of it seems to smack more of the cinquecento than of the previous century.
The tone of his character was so entirely that of modesty, he was so fundamentally patriotic, that even his faults are transformed to virtues, and the very failures of his declining years are popularly accounted successes.
The characters are all human, the action simple and direct, and the tone healthy and agreeable.
Every chapter in his narrative created a literary antagonist, and the spirit thus called into being was really instrumental, to a very considerable extent, in changing the whole style and tone of English history.
There was no exaggeration, no romance about it: he spoke in the tone of a man of business doing a right thing well considered, and the Baronet was satisfied in every respect but one.
Whittier says, in the Era, that "it has the rich tone and coloring and heart-reaching pathos and tenderness of the fine old ballads of the early days of English literature.
This last exclamation was uttered in a tone of surprise and indignation, for Dan faced him with folded arms, deliberately refusing the handclasp.
Delightful," said Tom, but in a tone of voice that did not encourage the Marquis to ask further questions or to continue his comments.
Bon jour, monsieur," said the captain in a tone of obnoxious pleasantry.
All of Tom's suspicious jealousies returned with fresh force, for Nancy rapidly crossed the room, spoke a few words to the old gentleman in an inaudible tone of voice, and passed quickly on to her own apartments.
This last remark was uttered in a sharp tone of command, very different from the silvery accents in which she had spoken to Frost and the captain.
Bessie was quite glad to be greeted in this friendly tone by Mr. Cecil Burleigh's sister; it was ever a distress to her to feel that she had hurt or vexed anybody.
Your home is here until you marry, Elizabeth," he rejoined in a tone that forbade contradiction.
I hope the government will have more wit," Mr. Fairfax exclaimed, his rallying tone taking the sting out of his words.
Mrs. Betts in a tone implying that her ladyship might consider it a liberty.
That Bessie had drawn her inferences truly was plain, from a soft blush and glance and a certain tone in her voice as she mentioned the name of Miss Julia Gardiner, as if she would deprecate any possible idea that she was taking a liberty.
Bessie was profoundly absorbed in her own happiness, but Lady Latimer's manner, and still more the tone of her voice, struck her with an uncomfortable chill.
Why, her very voice had another, softer tone when she spoke to him; his name was music from her lips.
Mrs. Carnegie in the anxious tone a kind voice takes when asking after the health of a friend who may be in a critical way.
The information was not gratifying, to judge from the hot fire of her face and the tone of her rejoinder.
His song was to the full as musical as that of the people of Tanna, but it seemed to be of a droll or humorous nature, from his various ludicrous postures, and from the particular tone of the whole.
Neither curiosity nor distrust and jealousy excited them to prohibit our farther progress; on the contrary, they always spoke in a kind tone to us, which sufficiently characterized their disposition.
He recognised in her tone a certain shyness which seemed to appeal to him for protection, and he was profoundly stirred by it without at all understanding it.
Teague in a tone intended to be at once contemptuous and reassuring, but it was neither the one nor the other.
Its eyes shone; its fangs glistened and gleamed; its hands clutched the air; its tone was husky with suppressed fury; its rage would have stormed the barriers of the grave.
If the words were evasive, the tone was far more so, but Woodward paid little attention to either.
No doubt my astonishment made itself apparent, for Mrs. Bivins bridled up promptly, and there was a clearly perceptible note of defiance in her toneas she proceeded.
The tone of the voice was something more than humble.
Woodward had intended to convey a very delicately veiled compliment, but this young woman's tone rather embarrassed him.
Woodward spoke with unusual warmth, and there was a glow of boyish frankness in his tone and manners that Teague found it hard to resist.
The voice was that of a negro, and there was something in thetone of it that arrested Kitty Kendrick's attention.
The curious air of condescension which Mrs. Bivins assumed as she said this, the tone of apology which she employed in paying this tribute to Mingo and the Wornum negroes, formed a remarkable study.
When she spoke it was in a tone of deep conviction.
The other's tone was delightfully envious of Uriah's good fortune.
No," he answered in a matter-of-fact tone that contrasted strangely with his dreadful pallor.
We can get nothing out of this man," he said in a tone of cold contempt.
Had Ann been a close observer of her own idiosyncrasies, her unwary softness of toneand gentleness to a daughter of her sworn enemy would have surprised her.
I don't want to talk to you," she managed to say, almost in a tone of appeal.
You mean she has her fancies, then," said Masters, in a tone of disappointment.
I didn't say that," Boyd said, heavily stricken by the combined force of her tone and words.
If I don't know how to sympathize with her, no one does," said the girl, with a bitterness of tone he could not fathom.
Jane said, in a tone which indicated the very lowest estimation of her brother-in-law's opinion.
Chester's tonebetrayed impatience even with the consideration of the faithful servant.
Her words and tonestruck him like a material missile well-aimed and deliberately hurled.
The very words and tone of enforced reproach came back to her across the rolling surf of time.
She could not have explained what impulse prompted it, but she paused in front of him, speaking in a tonehe had never heard from her before.
Say nobody," cried Robineau, whom the tone of the voice did not reassure.
The vagabond raised his eyes, and looked at her, and seemed more deeply impressed by her features and the tone of her voice.
But I confess that I should never have suspected that two young men of such excellent tone could be attracted by such a rustic character!
Isaure made no reply; she lowered her eyes, feeling intimidated by the toneof the stranger, whose glance, fixed constantly upon her, caused her an embarrassment which she could not overcome.
They exchanged a few complimentary remarks in such a serious tone that they seemed to have come together to follow a hearse.
Adèle was pretty, rather than beautiful; but it was impossible to resist the charms of her face, the sweetness of her expression, the enchanting tone of her voice.
It was the language of a well-educated girl with the ingenuous tone of a native of the mountains.
He was a man with a stern glance and a harsh manner; his eyes shot fire when they were inflamed by anger; he had retained the brusque, peremptory tone common to the naval officer, which he seemed to think that no one should resist.
Cornélie had already assumed the manners of the mistress of the house: she issued orders in a tonewhich announced to the servants that they must walk straight.
There was in Isaure's tone and language a blending of innocence and charm, whose fascination it was hard to resist.
The stranger's tone became slow and melancholy as he uttered these words.
Try the trick to-day, and you will find most of your hearers equally mystified, so perfectly has Franklin imitated the tone of Old Testament language.
