I ran back to the fort, and when I had gotten my drum the three companies were falling into line, the men murmuring in undertones among themselves.
We held a colloquy in undertones over the bar, eyed by the two or three customers who were present.
And indeed, their undertones were scarcely audible; but anger sharpened the cook's ears and his wits, and he lay and ruminated over such chance sentences as he got.
Some one moved above them and they hesitated, then they heard slow steps receding and thick undertones that they recognized as Jacob's.
In undertones filled with joyous anticipation, also, the suggestion advanced was elaborated upon.
All the frail undertones suppressed, during the bullying day now have audience.
Though all the winds were dead the undertones of the sea linger in lulling harmonies.
He paints the undertones faithfully, but he always lays on the overtones, and so spreads the effulgence of the sky-stream over the undertones, and the picture becomes vibrant and luminous.
Thoreau, to press the analogy from painting a little further, lays the undertones on with a firm hand: "It is a wild, rank place and there is no flattery in it.
They were talking in undertones to one another and she thought that they all looked tired and harassed.
Her broken incessant baby-talk, and the ringing kisses with which she atoned to the baa-lamb for each successive outrage, made a running accompaniment to the movedundertones of the parents.
Looking round, he saw a Ritualist priest, in cassock and cloak, disputing in hurried undertones with the men about the door.
They shone like nine gigantic cabochon cut sapphires; they ranged from palest, watery blue up through azure and purple and down to a ghostly mauve shot with sullen undertones of crimson.
Powerful it was, without doubt, but in it were undertones of rage, of impatience, overtones of revolt, something incomplete and struggling.
They had not dared to speak before, and even now they spoke in undertones of the shadow that had hovered and passed over the dearest thing in their lives.
However, one of the undergraduates was opposite, and she saved herself from undertones by talking across to him boldly about Newnham, though she hadn't an idea of his name or college.
It didn't smell like the heat of the tank's engines; it smelled like molten metal, with undertones of burned flesh.
Knots of men were speaking together in undertones and seemed to be far more eager to talk than to take up their daily tasks.
Over and over the men talked in undertones of the wonderful story.
Arthur deserted her with a sense of duty done, and passed the remainder of the banquet in exchanging wireless undertones with his other neighbour.
He released her hand and talked in eager undertones against an auditory background of urgency and distress.
He began to talk again in quick undertones that she could not clearly hear.
This did not in itself set my mind on new thoughts; but to add to my curiosity, when the doctor and the minister were leaving, I saw that they were talking in undertones and smiling significantly.
I could hear much of what they said, but it concerned only the fortunes of the game, and as they spoke in undertones I could not recognize their voices.
The mere words themselves uttered in her sweet undertones seemed to give the melody to Deronda's ear.
Then she suppresses the last gas-tap, and follows on into the front room, where the three sit talking in undertones for perhaps an hour.
Her broken, incessant baby-talk, and the ringing kisses with which she atoned to the baa-lamb for each successive outrage, made a running accompaniment to the moved undertonesof the parents.
The markings tend to form a wreath around the large end where, on the heavily-marked types, the blotches overlap the undertones and an almost endless number of shades are formed.
There is quite a little variation in the markings, ranging from spots and undertones that are distinct and clearly defined to spots clouded together and undertones only faintly discernible.
The Pocatello and Lava crowd seemed on the point of leaving, and were talking very fast in undertones that made Mary Hope feel that they were talking about her.
A vague hum of voices talking in lowundertones gradually overcame the quiet that had fallen on the waiting crowd, and from time to time anxious and impatient glances were shot toward the closed doors, through which the jury were to come.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undertones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
