It was a toned old Burgundy, happy in the year of its birth, the grandest of instruments to roll the gambol-march of the Dionysiaca through the blood of this frame and sound it to the spirit.
Her hair was radiant in a shady street; her eyelids tenderly toned round the almond enclosure of blue pebbles, bright as if shining from the seawash.
O'Malley was not much given to secret work; he forgot himself now and swore just as full-toned and just as fluently as though be had tripped in the dark over his own wheelbarrow in his own back yard.
Thorns caught and tore at his clothing, and now the voices of his pursuers, and the ferocious deep-toned hum which they had kept up as they ran, was growing very near.
Instead, a volume of exclamations in deep-toned Xosa, together with a wholly unaccountable hissing, came from the other side of the bush by which he was standing.
That's what we are placed here for," said a voice from one of the deeper-toned bells.
But we should have to be recast," said the low-toned bell, sadly.
George Strange was marked by a complacent, self-confident manner that his urbanity somewhat toned down.
Its hoarse roar echoed across the bush, and Thirlwell felt that there was something daunting in the deep-toned sound.
One felt stronger for bracing one's tired body against fresh fatigue, and watchfulness in the face of constant danger toned up the brain.
Of outward charms he had an ample measure, And his fine voice was like a deep-toned bell.
Deep, soul-toned language which quite well accords With his great sufferings for his blood-bought bride.
In sweet-toned language he did her exhort To look to Him who "bottles up each tear" His children shed while in deep sorrow here.
I've had a very pale companion for the last four miles," said Joseph, indulging in a shudder toned down by resignation.
Liddy looked from a back window into the courtyard behind, which was now getting low-toned and dim with the earliest films of night.
From our point of view the town had an ancient look, though much of it is modern enough, but the grime of its smoke had toned down the new to the old.
But Chichester is a pleasant old city, though it does not realise impossible dreams; its grey-toned cathedral makes a fine background for its beautiful arched market-cross.
As the wise and good rejoice in the extension of civilization, refinement, the power of religion and high-toned morality, they will look forward hopefully to such an event.
He has been standing in low-toned colloquy with the Chief outside the heavy plush curtains.
You've got to be swell and high-toned in the Land of Oz, whether you want to or not; so you may as well make up your mind to it.
Rooms can be toned warm or cold, but, unless some especial object is sought, neutral tints should predominate, and violent contrasts should be avoided.
Mary's father was a merchant of considerable wealth and standing in society, and possessing high-toned feelings and principles.
The judge, on the front seat, was telling a low-toned story over his shoulder for the delectation of Nancy and Betty, but Shirley was not listening.
There is a charm in the very charmlessness of the scene, as in some sombre-toned etching.
Were everything made of sweet toned bells, and they were every one ringing, no greater would be the alarum than that which at that moment knelled through him.
Charming, indeed, were these great affairs, unrivaled in all their appointments in the high-toned residential district in this unequaled city of social madness and financial debauchery.
In whose high-toned impartial mind Degrees of mortal rank and state Seem objects of indifferent weight.
Her level, full-toned voice had never varied, and she talked with perfect and assured serenity of turning society upside down.
Even that last letter of hers to Canterton toned with her feeling of cramped finality.
She moved finely, stood still finely, and spoke in a level, full-toned voice that had a peculiar knack of dominating the conversation without effort and without self-consciousness.
Could the molten gold have been hidden away, and the deep-toned brass notes silenced, and were they only waiting to be combed and coaxed to the front?
In the first a deep-toned figure gathers the rolling clouds together; in the second, a brighter child of the skies peeps out from behind them.
The head of the house was known as the premier among the high-toned business men of the old school.
Eleanor, her superb arms and neck bare, was opposite him, a wonderful white vision in the soft-toned light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: colored; deep; full; imbued; stained; subdued
