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  • "It is both a time for repentance and a time for thanks," intones the mayor.†   (source)
  • "For the kaiser, God, and the fatherland," the young forester intoned, as though he had learned the response by rote.†   (source)
  • "God—or idols," intoned the imam gravely.†   (source)
  • Outside the car, the pale wash of halogen headlights skimmed over the crushed gravel parkway, the rugged whir of the tires intoning a hypnotic rhythm.†   (source)
  • He had already struggled through one Friday's worth, with Hermione sitting next to him intoning "ignore them, ignore them, ignore them" under her breath, and he couldn't see why today should be any better.†   (source)
  • "Steady," Rhonda intoned again, just loud enough for the children to hear.†   (source)
  • "Ah, the Dressing of the Dog!" intoned a portly man standing by the window.†   (source)
  • " 'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once,' " Mr. Fish intoned… "I KNOW!†   (source)
  • He intoned a roll call of words: "Do-you-think-youcan-escape-from-my-clutches?"†   (source)
  • Mun, the men intone.†   (source)
  • "Blessed is he who forsakes his father and his mother for my sake," he intoned.†   (source)
  • "If there is anyone here who objects to this union, let him speak now or forever hold his peace," the archbishop intoned.†   (source)
  • See how smart she was, she seems to intone as she compares the picture to my father.†   (source)
  • "She's yanking your chain"—when Dina does things like intone "the Tribe has spoken" when Molly expresses an opinion.†   (source)
  • "Lady Lysa had no honorable way to deny him, even if she'd wished to," Lord Hunter intoned ponderously.†   (source)
  • Now, holding out his hands toward her, he intones: In nomine Domini Sabaoth sui filiique ite ad infernos.†   (source)
  • "Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes."†   (source)
  • Words that mean nothing, really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.†   (source)
  • Human,' she intoned, her voice suddenly resonating with bass tones, 'your will is mine.†   (source)
  • Laying his palm on the babe's brow, he intoned, "Atra gilai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr.†   (source)
  • "There is no death in all the Universe!" intoned Martin Silenus in a voice which the Consul felt sure could have awakened someone deep in cryogenic fugue.†   (source)
  • Once or twice a semester at least, I will stop discussion of the story orplay under consideration to intone (and I invariably intone in bold): whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.†   (source)
  • "We'll see," Mom intoned, her favorite phrase.†   (source)
  • THOU SHALT NOT THINKEST ABOUT IT, he intoned.†   (source)
  • Dunlop sat at the edge of a straight chair, intoning generalities of grammar.†   (source)
  • His failures as a human being suddenly loomed large, and in the back of his mind he could almost hear a voice intoning his catalogue of sins, his dread deepening as the list grew longer and longer.†   (source)
  • He spread his arms dramatically and intoned.†   (source)
  • Don't give him the satisfaction," Greta intones.†   (source)
  • "I never drink …. wine," he intoned in his thick Hungarian accent.†   (source)
  • "What a dolt my father sends me for weaponry," Paul intoned.†   (source)
  • "Bury my Visa at Mizner Park," Bocahontas intones solemnly in one of my columns, a reference to the city's toniest shopping strip.†   (source)
  • She argued that she was more connected to God reading her Rousseau than when she was at mass listening to Padre Ignacio intoning the Nicene Creed.†   (source)
  • The revised speech began temperately enough, but then Farmer intoned from the lectern, "Myths and mystifications about mdr-tb," and began reciting a rather long list.†   (source)
  • As her head went beneath the surface she heard Jem intoning, "Jean Louise Finch, I baptize you in the name of—"†   (source)
  • Blessed is the name of the Lord," the chaplain intoned, as the rain sound accelerated, as the noose was fitted, and as a delicate black mask was tied round the prisoner's eyes.†   (source)
  • I followed Moody around the pool of blood to the street side and stepped across it as his relatives intoned a prayer.†   (source)
  • Won't you please come in, Uncle Al," she intones.†   (source)
  • "Forgive him, oh hallowed Aspirant," Tristas intones, blue eyes sparkling.†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia saw himself surrounded by charitable novices who intoned desperate psalms for the repose of his soul and then he was sorry that he had not shot himself in the roof of the mouth as he had considered doing if only to mock the prediction of Pilar Ternera.†   (source)
  • This seems to satisfy, for Felicity intones, "O great goddesses on these walls, grant us our heart's desires."†   (source)
  • "But this I tell / To you, your ROV, and 12-volt battery," the sailor intoned in the competition mission statement.†   (source)
  • A little rain won't keep people away from the Lord," Nana intoned.†   (source)
  • When Rene made the mistake of looking over his shoulder and intoning, "This goes on that," Ira leaped off the bunk and took a swing at him.†   (source)
  • "Mistuh Norton, he dead," the man in black intoned sardonically.†   (source)
  • The teacher spoke less than he intoned and this, combined with the shabby, much-used textbook, made the class seem like an hour of death every other day.†   (source)
  • I felt a surge of triumph rippling through me when the judge struck his gavel and intoned, "Bail denied."†   (source)
  • 'You'd better come along with us, Father,' a lean, hawk-faced major on the chaplain's other side intoned with reverential sorrow.†   (source)
  • Mothers intone his name to prod their kids to higher achievement.†   (source)
  • The priest intoned words in a singsong voice, and the people repeated them after him in unison.†   (source)
  • With a mournful expression he intoned, "Doctor saab, I'm afraid you cannot be the father."†   (source)
  • She sat silent for thirtyone seconds as I intoned the first of the 322 names of the Hundred of White Lily, and then she turned her attention to the flask, and making tea.†   (source)
  • Ha! singing achievement, Ha! booming success, intoning, Ha! acceptance, Ha! a river of word-sounds filled with drowned passions, floating, Ha! with wrecks of unachievable ambitions and stillborn revolts, sweeping their ears, Ha! ranged stiff before me, necks stretched forward with listening ears, Ha! a-spraying the ceiling and a-drumming the dark-stained after rafter, that seasoned crossarm of torturous timber mellowed in the kiln of a thousand voices; playing Ha! as upon a xylophone;…†   (source)
  • "That means nothing," Milo intoned.†   (source)
  • "Press," I told the ol' boys at the ticket gate, and they let me in as if I had intoned, "Opennnnn Sesssaaaaammmmeeee."†   (source)
  • "Business is business," intoned the second old man.†   (source)
  • It was into Pilgrim's ears that the Irishman intoned and they were Pilgrim's eyes behind the iron muzzle.†   (source)
  • So he sang--or intoned, with the harp behind him--twisting together like sailors' ropes the bits and pieces of the best old songs.†   (source)
  • She intoned the words as if she were reciting a eulogy.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Brother Leon intoned, "the quota is doubled this year because we have more at stake than ever before."†   (source)
  • I remember sitting as a freshman listening to the chairman and vicechairman of the honor court intoning very solemnly and pompously about the importance of honor and how you would be kicked out of school if you did not have it.†   (source)
  • Intones the passage of time.†   (source)
  • Ah, yes, John intones, his Korean accent getting thicker and heavier.†   (source)
  • "Il Signor Alessandro Giuliani," the servant intoned, and pointed to a card solidly in the middle of the long table.†   (source)
  • "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations," the president intones humbly.†   (source)
  • " 'In the beginning,' " Mike intoned, "God created the heaven and the earth.†   (source)
  • "Collateral damage," intoned Fareed Barakat gravely.†   (source)
  • "A condom," the major intoned solemnly, "is a skullcap for us swingin' dicks.†   (source)
  • If he told Preacher, all Preacher would do was lift up his face, raise his arms, and intone, "Hallelujah!†   (source)
  • His snarling insult of the night before, and his general mistreatment of Sophie, had trespassed on my dreams all night in various allusive masks and guises, and now to awake to behold the same midcentury urban face intoning these hokey antebellum lyrics was simply more than I could tolerate.†   (source)
  • BRADY (Intoning) I an more interested in the Rock of Ages, than I am in the Age of Rocks.†   (source)
  • Bells began to tinlde; at their sound the priests began intoning the prayers, one taking up where the other left off.†   (source)
  • "Don't let her get too heavy, boys," Doc intoned regularly, every few minutes, "and she won't let nothing through."†   (source)
  • (Indignation and fear make his voice vibrate with the excitement o f enthusiasm) CHAPUYS (Intones) "He shall flee the iron weapons, and the bow of steel shall strike him through."†   (source)
  • "I am come here to you," Chooka intoned in a hoarse voice, "to help you look into the deeps of your hearts.†   (source)
  • "Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis," Mrs Who intoned.   (source)
    intoned = said
  • "You come with us," they intoned, as if one.   (source)
  • "Nobody suffers here," Charles intoned.   (source)
  • "What is a father?" Charles Wallace intoned. "Merely another misconception. If you feel the need of a father, then I would suggest that you turn to IT."   (source)
  • Then she remembered that when they had been standing before the man with red eyes, and the man with red eyes had been intoning the multiplication table at them, Charles Wallace had fought against his power by shouting out nursery rhymes, and Calvin by the Gettysburg Address.   (source)
    intoning = saying
  • The closest she had come to the feeling before was when she had been practicing artificial respiration with Girl Scouts, and the leader, an immensely powerful woman, had been working on Meg, intoning OUT goes the bad air, IN comes the good! while her heavy hands pressed, released, pressed, released.   (source)
  • "The house-elf's highest law is his Master's bidding," intoned Kreacher.†   (source)
  • "Your father has committed grave and terrible crimes, my lady," Grand Maester Pycelle intoned.†   (source)
  • "Review, friends—troops long past review," the Duke intoned.†   (source)
  • On earth as it is in heaven …." the group intoned.†   (source)
  • Padre de Jesus did not intone vague pronouncements and send me home with a pat on the head.†   (source)
  • People were definitely chanting… intoning words Sophie could not discern.†   (source)
  • Fremen with the book of examples," she intoned.†   (source)
  • "You knelt as boys," Bowen Marsh intoned solemnly.†   (source)
  • "Breathe slowly and deeply" she intoned, "slowly and deeply."†   (source)
  • "I am the sword in the darkness," Halder intoned.†   (source)
  • "I give myself to San Marco de Leon," Patria intoned, repeating the prayer for desperate situations.†   (source)
  • The spirit leaves the body's water when the first moon rises," Stilgar intoned.†   (source)
  • " 'I shall go unto the rebellious that dwell in the dry land,' " Halleck intoned.†   (source)
  • "As we sin, so do we suffer," he intoned, in a deep swelling voice much louder than Father's.†   (source)
  • She intoned a spell of scrying, and Nasuada's face appeared upon the surface of the still water.†   (source)
  • Boys, God doesn't like you," Fang intoned behind them.†   (source)
  • "Our lord has issued edict six in the spirit of lasting peace," intoned the demon.†   (source)
  • Bartleby Bumble the barrister," Ann intones, pronouncing the Bs hard.†   (source)
  • "It is always summer under the sea," he intoned.†   (source)
  • "General Service Administration," intoned a disinterested switchboard operator.†   (source)
  • "It will not help," Coach Hedge intoned.†   (source)
  • "Father Above, judge our good King Joffrey justly," he intoned, beginning the prayer for the dead.†   (source)
  • "I see," intoned Augur, looking from Cooper to Max.†   (source)
  • "Go to sleep or Max McDaniels will get you!" said Nix, intoning it as though it was a proverb.†   (source)
  • She draped a silky black swatch of material over my head and began to intone prayers.†   (source)
  • "Camille Belcourt, you stand accused of the murder of humans," Maryse intoned.†   (source)
  • I am your beloved granddaughter, and we are happy, all of us…," I intone.†   (source)
  • The DRUMMER intones under the PRAISE-SINGER'S invocations.†   (source)
  • "What is dead can never die," Victarion intoned.†   (source)
  • And Natalie, smothering beneath her abaya, intoned, "Allahu Akbar."†   (source)
  • He intoned their names, and then he said, "I sentence you to death.†   (source)
  • "How may I help you?" intoned the man, now sotto voce.†   (source)
  • May I present Mr. David Brandt," Jacobi intoned with a crooked smile.†   (source)
  • "We are here to kill you," the Flyboys intoned all together.†   (source)
  • Out in the yard a woman's hoarse contralto intoned a hymn.†   (source)
  • "This should hang in its stead," intoned Augur.†   (source)
  • "Begin where you are," intoned the Director.†   (source)
  • Prusias intoned the commandment that Max had heard one year earlier.†   (source)
  • "Beware the birth of May, beware the birth of May," I intone.†   (source)
  • "Nicely said, Sister," intoned the unimpressed police officer over the loudspeaker.†   (source)
  • "Keep concentrating," intoned Miss Boon.†   (source)
  • "Thou art more lovely and more temperate," he intones.†   (source)
  • "Jeez-Chrize!" intoned the peasant-colonel, his eyes bulging.†   (source)
  • Alex shot Max a dark look "No," intoned the creature, rising to its full height.†   (source)
  • "Front desk," he intoned, as if giving a benediction.†   (source)
  • "Very handsome," intoned Bob in agreement, stooping lower to examine the photo over their shoulders.†   (source)
  • Brendan Patrick Pierre Prefontaine," intoned the immigration official reading the passport.†   (source)
  • "Oh, this is lovely," intoned the former Deuxième specialist.†   (source)
  • "Saul," I intoned, trying to sound like a miniature Yahweh.†   (source)
  • Grimly, as though any humorous gesture were the farthest thing from his mind, he intoned: "Amen.†   (source)
  • "Well, Ruth," Bennington intoned slowly, "that's why I sent you out here.†   (source)
  • "Gimb the hill and come in!" he began to intone across the valley.†   (source)
  • Conroy," she intoned heavily, "do you know what your babies did yesterday?"†   (source)
  • "The King of the Snakes," intoned old Doc in his profound bass.†   (source)
  • We must show love, compassion, and understanding for each other," I intoned.†   (source)
  • "Hunt Desjardins," she intoned.†   (source)
  • Holding the bowl in both palms, Mal'akh raised it over his head and gave thanks, intoning the blood eukharistos of the ancients.†   (source)
  • Nico intoned.†   (source)
  • Dory intoned.†   (source)
  • Then he struck a solemn pose, and intoned, Those strong in the faith know, that in the Lord's hands even the infirm vessel is put to right use.†   (source)
  • 'Ignore them, just ignore them,' intoned Hermione, pulling out her wand and performing the charm to produce hot air again, so that she could melt them an easier path through the untouched snow between them and the greenhouses.†   (source)
  • I'm your past, he might intone.†   (source)
  • "Smoke," he intoned.†   (source)
  • Merely floating the possibility of the role to Lola might provoke a crisis, and could Briony really hold hands with her before the altar, while Jackson intoned from the Book of Common Prayer?†   (source)
  • Then he'd pause and, smiling down from the lectern at the old friends of pih, intone, "So you are not dismissed."†   (source)
  • "You are not to go to the mine," she intoned gravely as lighting split the air and turned her face bluish-white.†   (source)
  • …He—re Bee—low
    PraiseHimaboveye Heav'n—ly Ho—st
    PraiseFatherSonand Ho—ly Gho—st!
    In the confusion that followed, if the Archbishop of Canterbury had materialized in full regalia Jean Louise would not have been in the least surprised: the congregation had failed to notice any change in Mrs. Haskins's lifelong interpretation, and they intoned the Doxology to its bitter end as they had been reared to do, while Mrs. Haskins romped madly ahead like something out of Salisbury Cathedral.†   (source)
  • It was back to Ephesians for the rector, who intoned that we should pay close attention to "The Father from whom every family is named"; then he switched to Colossians and that bit about "Love which binds everything together in harmony"; and, at last, he concluded with Mark—"They are no longer two but one."†   (source)
  • "Not the bikini, the full one, the one you can really swim in," Jeff intoned; I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time.†   (source)
  • Instead, one of the Bikura raised his arms, just as the first shafts of colored light entered the basilica, and intoned, "You will follow the cross all of your days."†   (source)
  • "Funny," he intoned funereally, "how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does."†   (source)
  • "I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones.†   (source)
  • Poor Pittini was so old and blind he didn't even realize what was happening, but kept right on intoning the Kyrie as the assassin was being wrestled to the ground.†   (source)
  • "My lord Hand," he intoned.†   (source)
  • Leader's right," the troop intoned.†   (source)
  • Leader's right," the troop intoned.†   (source)
  • "Bi-lal kaifa," intoned the troop.†   (source)
  • "Bi-lal kaifa," intoned the troop.†   (source)
  • "Bi-lal kaifa," intoned the troop.†   (source)
  • "Jeremy Marsh?" the officer intoned.†   (source)
  • "Ladies, ladies," he intoned.†   (source)
  • Then Eragon intoned the first of the spells: a simple incantation that consisted of two short sentences, which he recited over and over again, like a prayer.†   (source)
  • It is good to have form, he intoned.†   (source)
  • " 'He will be great," ' Sebastian intoned, " 'and he will be called the Son of the Highest, and the Devil will give him the throne of his father.†   (source)
  • Reaching through the barrier in his mind, he delved into the magic and intoned: "Atra nosu waise vardo fra eld hornya…… There, now we may speak without being overheard by man, dwarf, or elf."†   (source)
  • The orator walked ominously out of the light of the torches to the two petrified men kneeling in front; 'Your devotion to money transcends your devotion to our cause,' he intoned like a sorrowful but angry patriarch.†   (source)
  • When the Calangute slipped its mooring, Saintly Amma raised her hand like a traffic policeman and, "using my sermon voice which I am told belies my age," intoned the words, "Leave your land for my sake," because Genesis was her favorite book.†   (source)
  • The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan… With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of…†   (source)
  • "Heavenly Father," he intoned in a hollow-sounding voice, "we ask you this morning to comfort us in our bereavement.†   (source)
  • The weak observe the rituals--take their hats off, put them on again, raise their arms, lower their arms, moan, intone, press their palms together--but no one harbors unreasonable expectations.†   (source)
  • "An excellent thought," intoned Mr. Sikes unconvincingly, "but I might have a number of reservations, not the least of which is that the Director has a full plate herself and might find her patience sorely tested if asked to put the world's concerns aside for the wants of a thirteen-year-old boy.†   (source)
  • Then the High Priest and its followers raised their faces toward the ceiling and began to intone a strange, oddly accented song that Eragon had trouble understanding.†   (source)
  • While the families of Russian officers settled in throughout the land and radios intoned ominous reports of police functionaries who had replaced cashiered broadcasters, Tomas reeled through the streets of Prague from one glass of wine to the next like someone going from party to party.†   (source)
  • Cedric smiles benignly as Clarence plunges into Romans, chapter 8, verse 35: "Whoooooo," he intones, "shall separate us from the love of Christ?†   (source)
  • The host, head unbowed, cracked his knuckles as Cullivan, with bowed head and palms together, intoned, "Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts which we are about to receive from thy bounty, through the mercy of Christ, our Lord.†   (source)
  • After an interminable time, he heard the dim and faraway voice intone, "Thirty," and despair gripped him as he wondered,How can I possibly withstand another twenty lashes?†   (source)
  • "Narciso is my friend," Cico intoned.†   (source)
  • Then we heard the General's voice again as he intoned solemnly, "In the mystery of the circle, in the mystery of shape, of the shape without end, of the infinite form, the perfect form, I bind you to the brotherhood.†   (source)
  • He could taste the ocean on his lips: "Let Theon your servant be born again from the sea, as you were," Aeron Greyjoy intoned.†   (source)
  • "To Whom It May Concern," I intoned.†   (source)
  • Several men took a number of live sheep and, facing in the direction of Mecca while intoning sacred prayers, slashed their throats.†   (source)
  • His further descriptions of every detail and statistic pertaining to those items were extremely irritating, because he intoned them like a parrot.†   (source)
  • "We don't have to single out an event in his life," the pastor intoned, as a Marine honor guard stood by the flag-draped casket, lodged awkwardly between the first five rows of wooden pews.†   (source)
  • 'Once upon a time," Denny intoned theatrically, " 'one of us spent thirty years craving his real mother's voice, but after he found it, he realized he didn't like it half as much as his fake mother's voice."†   (source)
  • "You that grow well here in the arroyo by the dampness of the river, we lift you to make good medicine," Ultima intoned softly and I found myself repeating after her.†   (source)
  • For the next fifteen minutes a number of servants in the kitchens of houses on various levels of the hillside looked up from their dough and their saucepans as a bat-like figure in a dark cloak fled down the many flights of stone stairs, laughing out loud as he went, and intoning what seemed to be some sort of incantation.†   (source)
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