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timbre
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  • Dr. Urbino could barely see him amid the leaves, and he tried to cajole him in Spanish and French and even in Latin, and the parrot responded in the same languages and with the same emphasis and timbre in his voice, but he did not move from his treetop.†   (source)
  • The timbre of Kynes' voice held Paul's attention.†   (source)
  • The timbre of his bark had deepened to an intimidating boom.†   (source)
  • Its timbre replaced that of the overhead lights and cast a subtle pall across the citizens in the gallery, who sat looking at one another and at the ceiling.†   (source)
  • So we watch their faces, their hands, their feet, and listen for truth in timbre.†   (source)
  • Nye, whose normal voice is cuttingly nasal and naturally intimidating, was attempting a subdued timbre, a disarming, throw-away style.†   (source)
  • And when Eric's pain had faded, and Rufus was far away, Eric remembered only the joy that they had sometimes shared, and the timbre of Rufus' voice, his half-beat, loping, cocky walk, his smile, the way he held a cigarette, the way he threw back his head when he laughed.†   (source)
  • I think of his face without the mask and the low, thrilling timbre of his voice when he whispered in my ear at the Moon Festival.†   (source)
  • For the next twenty minutes, I could see the tension building, in her neck, her features, the shaking timbre of her voice as one bad thing after another kept happening.†   (source)
  • Sunday all the mill operatives were free; and then groups of women and children added themselves to the men; dinners were taken along, lending a grotesque suggestion of picnicking to the work, a suggestion contradicted by the anxious faces, the strained timbre of the voices that called from group to group.†   (source)
  • Sam's mental voice changed, took on that strange double timbre that we could not disobey.†   (source)
  • It's not at all obvious what he's going to say until he says it, with a thrust to his lower lip and an executive timbre in his voice.†   (source)
  • "I'm not letting you pull another Camp Haven on me," I said, adding what I hoped to be an alluring purr to the timbre.†   (source)
  • On the formal crossing to the Archipelago, there was a different timbre in the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • Pedro Tercero was still thin, and still had his stiff hair and sad eyes, but his voice had acquired a hoarse, passionate timbre that would one day make him famous, when he would sing songs of revolution.†   (source)
  • She kept her voice low, not out of deference for my newly acquired higher status but at a timbre that seemed tamped down by fear.†   (source)
  • Addison laughed, the timbre surprisingly human.†   (source)
  • As we struggle to find our individual voices, I believe we must look beyond the voice we've been assigned and find our place among the tones and timbre of human expression.†   (source)
  • Miss Susie, Miss Susie Gresham, back there looking at that co-ed smiling at that he-ed-listen to me, the bungling bugler of words, imitating the trumpet and the trombone's timbre, playing thematic variations like a baritone horn.†   (source)
  • "Your analogy is excellent, sir," said Mr. Mompellion; his voice had the commanding timbre that he used in the pulpit.†   (source)
  • The particular timbre of her voice and her soft Virginia accent were the same as Michelle's had been.†   (source)
  • Her weeping had the timbre of imponderable loss, even of despair.†   (source)
  • One spoke with the timbre of a child.†   (source)
  • It lent an added timbre to her speaking voice.†   (source)
  • By then Mike's voice was "human" in timbre and quality, recognizable.†   (source)
  • At this hour, it was very possible that Franny felt deeply hesitant about taking a chance on just the timbre, let alone the verbal content, of any of her brothers' voices on the phone.†   (source)
  • Even as they conferred by the register, though, they heard the building creak loudly — a strangely ancient sound, it seemed, a foreign timbre wholly out of keeping with the pop and sizzle of the chicken, the wha-ingg! of the register.†   (source)
  • The timbre of her voice was deeper than usual.†   (source)
  • F can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into all the basic frequencies and harmonics, with all their different loudnesses, and listen to them, each pure tone, but all at once.†   (source)
  • Also will improve the timbre of your voice.†   (source)
  • He has marvelous vocal control and timbre.
  • The tone, the timbre excellent—imperative, very sharp.†   (source)
  • "Let me guess," Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always.†   (source)
  • It was easy to understand why Bentley never forgot the timbre and quality of that voice.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the Winter King spoke with a timbre of authority that would brook no opposition.†   (source)
  • Stop! he ordered in the double timbre of the Alpha.†   (source)
  • His voice had gained the ringing timbre of the pulpit.†   (source)
  • And at that point a voice of trombone timbre screamed at me, "Git out of, here, you fool!†   (source)
  • It brought her to Number 7 Carpenter's Road and the door with the blue glass; it helped her to resist scratching the screen as in days gone by; it hid from her the true motives for her charity, and, finally, it gave her voice the timbre she wanted it to have: free of delight or a lip-smacking "I told you so" with which the news of Sula's illness had been received up in the Bottom—free of the least hint of retribution.†   (source)
  • He had had trouble commanding even his powerful voice to call out the words of such a dispatch, and at the end he was piping with thecracked timbre of a boy-.†   (source)
  • The figure at the desk noticed them through the open door and spoke; the familiar timbre of his voice left no doubt as to who it was sitting at the broad oaken desk.†   (source)
  • The men would run furiously a few paces and stop, resting between the shafts, run a few paces and rest, shouting and laughing and drinking from a jug, as she on top threw back her head and shouted passionately in a full-throated voice of blues singer's timbre: If it hadn't been for the referee, Joe Louis woulda killed Jim Jefferie Free beer!†   (source)
  • John stared at Elisha all during the lesson, admiring the timbre of Elisha'. s voice, much deeper and manlier than his own, admiring the leanness, and grace, and strength, and darkness of Elisha in his Sunday suit, wondering if he would ever be holy as Elisha was holy.†   (source)
  • There was something plaintive, childlike about her voice, which was light in timbre, almost fragile, breaking a little in the upper register and of a faint huskiness lower down.†   (source)
  • Why—why—it had been Ashley in the wintry, windswept orchard at Tara, talking of life and shadow shows with a tired calmness that had more finality in its timbre than any desperate bitterness could have revealed.†   (source)
  • Her voice is strong, young, tremulous and clear, rapt with its own timbre and volume, the fan still moving steadily up and down, whispering the useless air.†   (source)
  • Yet the heartiness, like the timbre, seemed to be as impermanent as the sound of the words, vanishing, leaving nothing, not even a definitely stated thought in the ear or the belief.†   (source)
  • When she spoke her voice had a beautiful low timbre, soft and modulated, and yet with ringing overtones.†   (source)
  • Only the timbre of his voice showed his passion; he was as slow and easy as Pruitt.†   (source)
  • Do give me a timbre-poste.†   (source)
  • … That is unpleasant … ," and the timbre of her voice caused a shudder of sweet excitement to pass up and down his back.†   (source)
  • He felt it as a pressure in his sinuses; his throat and uvula were sore and scratchy; air didn't pass normally through the channel prescribed by nature, but was impeded, and its steady cold draft unleashed fits of coughing; overnight his voice had taken on the hollow timbre of a whiskey bass; and as he told it, he had not slept a wink—he had kept starting up from his pillow because of the stifling dryness in his throat.†   (source)
  • "Timbre?" he repeated.†   (source)
  • Because, then, even being demeaned brings with it a certain stature, and a woman can look down from the heights of her demeaned position to those who have no royal stature, and speak in that disparaging tone you used just now when you asked about timbres-poste and said: 'Gentlemen should at least be punctual and dependable.'†   (source)
  • …fell away into silence; but goat-footed Hans continued to blow his naive, monotonous air and lure exquisitely colored, magical tones from nature—until finally, after a long pause, a series of new instrumental voices entered, tumbling rapidly, each higher than the other, their timbres rising in self-surmounting sweetness, until every richness, every fullness held back up to now, was realized for one fleeting moment, which contained within it the perfect blissful pleasures of eternity.†   (source)
  • On roua avant-hier un violon, qui avait commence la danse et la pillerie du papier timbre; il a ete ecartele apres sa mort, et ses quatre quartiers exposes aux quatre coins de la ville.†   (source)
  • So firm—so liquid-soft—again that tremulous, manly timbre!†   (source)
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