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Tones in sentence

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The engine alone shone at the end with its copper; the well-greased steel cables moved like ribbons soaked in ink, and the pulleys above, the enormous scaffold which supported them, the cages, the trams, all this prodigality of metal made the hall look sombre with their hard grey tones of old iron.
This old gold and these old silks, with their tawny tones, all this luxurious church furniture, had overwhelmed them with respectful discomfort.
But his voice was not fierce; he spoke in the cold tones of a simple envoy of the people, who was rendering his account.
Maheude, who had arrived first with dishevelled hair beneath a handkerchief knotted on in haste, and having Estelle asleep in her arms, repeated in feverish tones:"Don't let any one in or any one out!
Leon stopped, pointing with a gesture to his sleeping audience; then they talked in low tones, and their conversation seemed the more sweet to them because it was unheard.
Edgar, flashing with fury, dominated all the others with his clearer voice; Ashton hurled homicidal provocations at him in deep notes; Lucie uttered her shrill plaint, Arthur at one side, his modulated tones in the middle register, and the bass of the minister pealed forth like an organ, while the voices of the women repeating his words took them up in chorus delightfully.
It was certain that in this answer, uttered in the lowest of tones, the word 'Fie!' had figured.
The fact of the matter was that this mansion was visible from a distance of three or four leagues, to the great detriment of all the country houses or so-called _chateaux_ of the neighbourhood, which had been allowed to retain the humble grey tones imparted to them by time.
When my lawsuits bore you, or when you no longer suit me I shall ask for a good living for you, like that of our friend the abbe Pirard, and _nothing more_,' the Marquis added, in the driest of tones.
'Come to the ball with my brother,' she added, in the driest of tones.
On seeing him appear, she assumed an air of malevolence which it was impossible for him to misinterpret,Carried away by his misery, dazed by surprise, Julien was weak enough to say to her, in the tenderest of tones and one that sprang from the heart: 'Then, you no longer love me?''I am horrified at having given myself to the first comer,' said Mathilde, weeping with rage at herself.
'See what your servant sends you,' she said in audible tones, 'it is the sign of eternal obedience.
They spoke in low tones.
'You must,' she said to Julien that evening in the driest of tones, 'bring me some envelopes with your address written on them.''So now I am to combine the lover and the flunkey,' thought Julien, and bowed, amusing himself by screwing up his face like Arsene, the Marquis's old footman.
I still remained obdurate, and, in broken-hearted tones, he said:"Well, won't you come and see the memorial window?"
I do not admire the tones of a concertina, as a rule; but, oh! how beautiful the music seemed to us both then - far, far more beautiful than the voice of Orpheus or the lute of Apollo, or anything of that sort could have sounded.
And Harris, instead of merely observing, in his most unpleasant tones, that a fellow could hardly help treading on some bit of George's foot, if he had to move about at all within ten yards of where George was sitting, suggesting that George never ought to come into an ordinary sized boat with feet that length, and advising him to hang them over the side, as he would have done before supper, now said: "Oh, I'm so sorry, old chap; I hope I haven't hurt you."
They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.
He sat in portentous silence, brooding over the exploit of his prisoner, yet mechanically pursuing the business before him, until, after sufficient time had passed to make a very comfortable meal, a trumpet suddenly broke on the ears of the party, sending its martial tones up the valley, in startling melody.
Lawton was already in the saddle, eying the opposite extremity of the valley with the eagerness of expectation, and crying to the musicians, in tones but little lower than their own,-"Sound away, my lads, and let these Englishmen know that the Virginia horse are between them and the end of their journey."
This unfeeling communication had no effect on the peddler, who listened with gasping breath to every sound from the room of his parent until he heard his own name spoken in the hollow, sepulchral tones of death.
Her figure was now hid from the view of Frances, who was about to rise and approach her guest, when tones of a thrilling melody chained her in breathless silence to the spot.
Isabella moved from the window as her last tones melted on the ear of her admiring listener, and, for the first time, her eye rested on the pallid face of the intruder.
The deep tones of the trooper's voice were no sooner conveyed to the ears of the washerwoman, than, turning her head, where she sat directing the movements of the mare, she put into the discourse at the first pause.
She continued to gaze towards the mysterious residence, when the gleam of light passed away, and at the same instant the tones of a bugle rang through the glens and hollows, and were reechoed in every direction.
The silence, and the expectation in every eye, at length struck him, and making an effort to collect himself, he spoke, in the tones of one used to authority.
The mild but steady tones of the speaker, as he slowly repeated the substance of this charge, were full of authority.
Dunwoodie groaned aloud, and striking his head with his hand, cried in piercing tones, "He is lost!" and rushed from the apartment.
He was still occupied in this manner, when the voice of the peddler, talking in unusually loud tones, was heard directly over their heads.
But now there was a despondency in the tones of his voice, and a listlessness in his air, that was entirely different.
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