toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

undertone
in a sentence
grouped by contextual meaning

show 10 more with this conextual meaning
  • An undertone of sarcasm and self-parody help make the series popular.
    undertone = less obvious characteristic
  • An undertone of disrespect slipped through.
    undertone = subtle characteristic
  • I think I detected an undertone of fear.
    undertone = less obvious characteristic
  • Would there be no Chase and Sons? ... This must have been the reproachful undertone of more than one discussion, around the dinner table, over the port.   (source)
    undertone = underlying concern
  • Despite the steady musical undertone in his speaking voice Finny couldn't carry a tune, and he couldn't remember the melody or the words to any song.   (source)
    undertone = underlying quality
  • His invitation might have passed as casual, were it not for the undertone.   (source)
  • PROCTOR, with a violent undertone: You doubt me yet?   (source)
    undertone = expression in tone-of-voice
  • But, throughout it all, and through the whole discourse, there had been a certain deep, sad undertone of pathos, which could not be interpreted otherwise than as the natural regret of one soon to pass away.   (source)
    undertone = underlying quality
  • He puts his jacket around her shoulders. Old tweed, old tobacco, a singed odour. An undertone of salt.   (source)
    undertone = subtle trace
  • The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.   (source)
    undertone = soft sound
▲ show less (of above)
show 2 more with this conextual meaning
  • Her long hair is blonde, as mine was then — pale, white almost, as if the red undertones had been washed away — the iron, the copper, all the hard metals.   (source)
    undertones = subtle colors
  • The complaint of a human heart, sorrow-laden, perchance guilty, telling its secret, whether of guilt or sorrow, to the great heart of mankind; beseeching its sympathy or forgiveness,--at every moment,--in each accent,--and never in vain! It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power.   (source)
    undertone = underlying quality
▲ show less (of above)
show 8 more with this conextual meaning
  • She muttered something in an undertone too low for me to hear.
    undertone = quiet voice
  • "Ginny," said Ron in an undertone to Harry.   (source)
    undertone = a very quiet or hushed voice
  • As I stood behind the table, Reenie in an undertone retailed the latest news.   (source)
    undertone = quiet voice
  • "Well," I qualified in an undertone, "he really is Madame Chiang Kai-shek."   (source)
  • The two speak together in an undertone.   (source)
    undertone = a very quiet or hushed voice
  • "You shouldn't pick on those weaker than yourself," said Callie in a pleased undertone.   (source)
    undertone = quiet voice
  • "Riddle's diary's gone," he said in an undertone to Ron.   (source)
    undertone = a very quiet or hushed voice
  • Ron told Harry and Hermione in an undertone as they left Percy to it.   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 10 more examples with any meaning
  • And what's with the hair and the suit?" said Harry in an undertone.†   (source)
  • They were small, like full-size people who had shrunk in the sun; they spoke to each other in undertones, saying things like, "If Your Grace has any more blooming idea of where we is than us do, I'd be grateful if he'd say so.†   (source)
  • "Steady now," said Rhonda in an undertone.†   (source)
  • They were friendly and matter-of-fact, with a slight undertone of setting me straight which was simply in the nature of our relationship.†   (source)
  • The undertone of the fires.†   (source)
  • I put my face against the soft hair at the back of her neck and breathe her in, baby powder and child's washed flesh and shampoo, with an undertone, the faint scent of urine.†   (source)
  • The terrified undertone in his words pierces my heart, and I nod again, but this time I actually mean it.†   (source)
  • "It's Xandra with an X," she said in a gravelly undertone.†   (source)
  • His voice is low and still casual, but there's an undertone of force to it: the kind of voice street peddlers lapse into when they are trying to get you to buy a carton of bruised berries or a broken toy.†   (source)
  • Like we always go to see Beauty and the Beast, my all-time favorite Broadway musical, I don't care what Lilly says about Walt Disney and his misogynistic undertones.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)
show 190 more examples with any meaning
  • A sweet smell with a bitter undertone, rich and evocative.†   (source)
  • Brom turned to him and asked in an undertone, "What's her name?†   (source)
  • I hear the undertones now that shimmer under the surface of the words right and wrong.†   (source)
  • The interdiction field added its sonic undertones to the sudden silence.†   (source)
  • In the end, she knew, whatever Kryptos ultimately revealed, the message definitely had mystical undertones.†   (source)
  • A deep bass voice tried calming her, in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Gurney accepted the bundle, puzzled by the hard undertones in this conversation.†   (source)
  • The undertone of fear that San Francisco would be bombed which was abetted by weekly air raid warnings, and civil defense drills in school, heightened my sense of belonging.†   (source)
  • But there's also some sort of undertone…I think Gottfried fantasised that his children would share his, to put it mildly, perverted world view.†   (source)
  • I demanded in an undertone.†   (source)
  • 'You listen to me,' she said in a heated undertone, and then she caught a distant whisper, and the word judge.†   (source)
  • The undertones in Reyna's voice took Annabeth a moment to decipher.†   (source)
  • I did not argue, for there was a sudden undertone of authority in his voice that gave me a moment of alarm.†   (source)
  • She said the last in a venomous undertone, looking down again at her hands.†   (source)
  • The air is filled with the scents of corn popping, peanuts roasting, and the tangy undertone of animal.†   (source)
  • The orders were given in a sharper manner than on other days, and in the air there were strange undertones.†   (source)
  • Helene asks me in an undertone.†   (source)
  • The roar and drumming in the forest made a soft, blurring undertone of sound.†   (source)
  • Pale, but with the rose undertone.†   (source)
  • They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.†   (source)
  • "Bold, yes," Stone said, breaking the long silence, and speaking in an undertone as if only for himself, "but they wouldn't be operating on their own sons.†   (source)
  • "You're humming again," Seivarden said in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "You thought it was Richard," Roarke said in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Over it was thrown an unfamiliar tan suede jacket that brought out the gold undertones to his skin.†   (source)
  • Mattie saw that the evening light had hidden the yellow undertones in the finely wrinkled white face, and it had softened the broad contours of the woman's pug nose and full lips.†   (source)
  • "Your Majesty, please," the commander of her guard pleaded in an urgent undertone.†   (source)
  • She added this last reflection in an undertone before her attention snapped back to Max and Miss Boon.†   (source)
  • His skin was pallid, with an undertone of grey.†   (source)
  • She thought suddenly that she was wrong about his lack of emotion: the hidden undertone of his manner was enjoyment.†   (source)
  • 'So that is the King of Rohan!' said Pippin in an undertone.†   (source)
  • He raised his glass to Bobby and said in a chilled, aggressive undertone, "To the Institute."†   (source)
  • "It is in line with your own request, sir," he said politely, an undertone of surprise beneath his courtesy.†   (source)
  • It stayed there for the rest of her life, an undertone that made her singing voice memorable.†   (source)
  • An undertone of faint hostility has crept into his voice.†   (source)
  • Drizzt could see that the last statement rattled the one called deBernezan, for the undertones of the barbarian king's demand clearly showed his contempt for the southerner.†   (source)
  • He learned to listen to the undertones of her voice.†   (source)
  • I scrubbed myself almost raw until my brown skin had a pink rather than black undertone.†   (source)
  • There was not a breath of wind, and even the perpetual muttering beyond the reef had sunk to a sullen undertone.†   (source)
  • By contrast the voice of the female seemed plaintive, defensive, growing shrill at moments as if in fright but generally submissive with an undertone of pleading.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: (undertone).†   (source)
  • For a little while after their prayer, in relief, Mary had talked quite volubly of matters largely irrelevant to the event; she had even made little jokes and had even laughed at them, without more than a small undertone of hysteria; and in all this, Hannah had thought it best (and, for that matter, the only thing possible), to follow suit; but that soon faded away; nor was it to return; now they merely sat in quietness, each on her side of the kitchen table, their eyes cast away from…†   (source)
  • You staying on in Morgana, Virgie?" came Miss Nell's undertone.†   (source)
  • I did do some work for Ben… but your compliment seems to have deep brooding undertones.†   (source)
  • The sky was luminous; but there was an undertone of cold gray; the stars were bright; but with a weak gleam.†   (source)
  • Again he expected rage and got the indulgent laugh, with its undertones of knowing sadness.†   (source)
  • 'Molly doesn't approve of Mundungus,' said Sirius in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Fishy, isn't it?" he said in an undertone to Ron.†   (source)
  • "He's all right, Marco," said Goldie to me in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, I think we saw a bit of that side of them," said Ron in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Stilgar's voice lost some of its subtle undertone of reasoning, took on an edge of bitterness.†   (source)
  • In an undertone Reynie said quickly, "Listen, Kate.†   (source)
  • "Bill," he added in an undertone, "pick up that paper, I want to see what it says…."†   (source)
  • "Absolute nightmare," said Bagman to Harry in an undertone, noticing Harry watching the goblins too.†   (source)
  • I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession, with undertones of nausea.†   (source)
  • "Don't mind him," she said to Maia in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Eragon shook his head and growled in an undertone, "No."†   (source)
  • I is sorry for nippin' at ya," she muttered in a hoarse undertone.†   (source)
  • She could smell sweat in his hair and the lingering undertone of Johnson's No More Tears shampoo.†   (source)
  • As we left, Seivarden said to me, in an undertone, "What a snob.†   (source)
  • But under the hood, his hair was white and thin, and his flesh had an old man's greyish undertone.†   (source)
  • "Where is Shruikan ?" he said in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Our fights are secret fights, conducted at night, when Sarah is asleep: a squabbling in undertones.†   (source)
  • I got ready for 'em," Mavity told Johnnie in an undertone, after her father returned.†   (source)
  • He muttered to himself in an undertone while he did.†   (source)
  • Robert and Josiah evaded her; they were deaf to those undertones.†   (source)
  • "This is crazy," I told Patch in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "You believe I'm capable of this?" he repeated in an undertone that cut like a blade.†   (source)
  • Fisk went still and in an undertone asked, "What should I do?"†   (source)
  • There was an undertone to her voice, shadowed and tense, that made Clary's nerves spark.†   (source)
  • "What happened?" asked Arya in a strained undertone.†   (source)
  • Why didn't you sense the trap?" he asked Elva in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Patch swore in an undertone, yanked a third shoe out of my hands, and hurled it behind him.†   (source)
  • "Fine," Eragon replied in a similar undertone.†   (source)
  • You couldn't just let me win, could you?" he growled in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle weren't listening; they were talking in an undertone and Harry had a nasty feeling they were plotting how best to disrupt the lesson.†   (source)
  • With an anguished look at Harry and Ron, Hermione hurried out of the room after Mrs. Weasley. it's like being a house-elf," complained Ron in an undertone, still massaging his head as he and Harry followed.†   (source)
  • They sit and sip; the brew in the glass tastes like waterweed, with an undertone of raspberry beetles.†   (source)
  • Eragon often heard Brom and Jeod discussing the events in an undertone, but they always stopped when he came near.†   (source)
  • She's suitably alarmed, yet there's an undertone of elation as well: she's getting ready to nurse him, to indulge herself in yet another role.†   (source)
  • We are between islands; the sea is a rich lapis shot through with verdant undertones, a reversal of sky tones.†   (source)
  • I think Mum thinks that if she can stop the three of you getting together and planning, she'll be able to delay you leaving," Ginny told Harry in an undertone, as they laid the table for dinner on the third night of his stay.†   (source)
  • Maybe,' said Malfoy in an undertone, so that only Harry could hear him, 'the stupid great oaf's got himself badly injured.†   (source)
  • She gave him a wink which had strangely unsettling undertones , a wink one conspirator might give another.†   (source)
  • 'Asleep, yeah, right,' said Fred in an undertone, after Hermione bade them goodnight and they were climbing to the next floor.†   (source)
  • Katrina looked down at her hands and answered in an undertone, then leaned up on her tiptoes and kissed him before darting away.†   (source)
  • "All right," said Boris, in the humorous undertone he used when we had a close call at the supermarket.†   (source)
  • It was a huge thought, awesome …. and yet also frightening, with undertones of guilt and blasphemy.†   (source)
  • She smells like smoke; smoke, and laundry soap, and the salt from her skin; and she smells of the skin itself, with its undertone of dampness, fullness, ripeness — what?†   (source)
  • Mostly he just sat, smelling sweet cool air instead of the bedroom's stale indoor smell, sly with sickroom undertones, listened to the drip of the icicles, and watched the cloud-shadows roll slowly and steadily across the melting field.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be making some inquiry of the stranger, who shook his head unsmilingly and replied in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Kreacher said nothing,' said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, 'and there's its twin, unnatural little beasts they are.†   (source)
  • WHEN HE OPENED THE door, the shades were down, and it took my eyes a moment to adjust to the dark, which was aromatic and perfume-smelling, with an undertone of sickness and medicine.†   (source)
  • The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist; the air smells of mown grass and horse manure, with an undertone of dog.†   (source)
  • 'Master always liked his little joke,' said Kreacher, bowing again, and continuing in an undertone, 'Master was a nasty ungrateful swine who broke his mother's heart —'†   (source)
  • "A twenty," Harry corrected him in an undertone, uncomfortably aware of Mr. Roberts trying to catch every word.†   (source)
  • Hermione rolled her eyes at Harry and then said in an undertone, while Ron was still muttering imprecations about Michael Corner, 'And talking about Michael and Ginny… what about Cho and you?'†   (source)
  • "Here — take it, Harry," Ron added in an undertone as the third-year girls scuttled away looking scandalized.†   (source)
  • Eragon cursed in an undertone.†   (source)
  • You don't want to be here," he said in an undertone of steel that indicated he was taking nothing into account.†   (source)
  • It's done," he said in an undertone.†   (source)
  • He thought he heard the undertone of a threat, like: unless you want to get a Stygian sword up your nose.†   (source)
  • She could see how even from day one there had been a hostile undertone in her correspondence with Holm.†   (source)
  • The skin on the face had the same silver undertone–silver like moonlight–as the hand did, with another handful of the golden freckles across the bridge of the nose.†   (source)
  • 'That's exactly what I had in mind, sir, when I ordered him to come here,' Colonel Cathcart said carefully, and threw his arm familiarly around the chaplain's shoulders as he walked him off into a corner to order him in a cold undertone to start reporting for duty at the officers' club every evening to mingle with the men while they were drinking and gambling so that he could get to understand them and win their confidence.†   (source)
  • Percy made it sound like he was just doing Leo a favor, but there'd been an undertone like If you mess with my friend, I will personally feed you to a great white shark.†   (source)
  • It was her voice, more than her words, that made him stop: her voice was low, it had no quality of emotion, only of a sinking weight, and its sole color was some dragging undertone, like an inner echo, resembling a threat; it was the voice of the plea of a person who still retains a concept of honor, but is long past caring for it: "You want to hold me here, don't you?†   (source)
  • She sang to herself in an undertone as the water crashed over her body, and used the towel which smelled of him with joy.†   (source)
  • Then on a sudden inspiration, he once more laid hold of the bridle and began to speak volubly in a hoarse undertone: "W'y, name o' God, Mr. Stoddard!†   (source)
  • His palms were still flat against the stone behind her, but he moved his body against hers, gently pressing her up against the wall; she could hear the harsh undertone of his breathing.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless there's a rustling, a rank undertone of cats and their huntings and furtive scratchings, still going on behind the deceptive tidiness.†   (source)
  • So apparently did Jormundur, for he leaned toward her and said in an undertone, "Nasuada, you can't do this.†   (source)
  • As Eragon started to follow, he felt Orik tug his sleeve and bent down to hear the dwarf say in an undertone, "Never ask an elf for help; they might decide that you're better off dead, eh?†   (source)
  • Yarbog grunted, the first sound he had made in over a minute, and in an undertone, he muttered, "Kill me, Stronghammer.†   (source)
  • But there's an undertone, like an invisible nod, as if something he wants to suspect has come true after all.†   (source)
  • Turning his head to one side, Orik looked back at Eragon and said to him in an undertone, "Well, that was as we expected."†   (source)
  • "Gar!" said Roran in an undertone.†   (source)
  • While Angela and Wyrden perused the runes with avid intensity, Arya walked over to one of the archways and, in an undertone, began to chant a spell for finding and locating.†   (source)
  • She was as impersonal as she knew how to be; so impersonal that her voice was free, for a while even of the usual undertone of irritation.†   (source)
  • I began to laugh a trifle nervously, struck by the fact that in this weird conversation with its desperate undertone, at least on my part, we should already have foundered on the shoals of sex.†   (source)
  • It was a low dome of sonorous blue, with an undertone of sultry sulphur color, because of the smoke that dimmed the air.†   (source)
  • He spoke now, as he had once or twice before, with an odd inquisitive undertone in his voice, as if he might be wishing to solicit Sophie's opinion without compromising his authority by actually doing so.†   (source)
  • As I hurried down the street toward the subway I could hear above his feeble peeping protests the hoarsely gravelly female voice still yakking furiously, yet dying away behind me with an undertone of patient forbearance that told me that Moishe would hardly get thrown out of the Pink Palace.†   (source)
  • She turned sharply to look: a few years ago she would not have noticed the undertone of contempt in the lazy rallying voice.†   (source)
  • As he dressed he whistled jauntily, but with a crestfallen undertone; and his face wore a curious little defeated smile.†   (source)
  • She hated the exposed fleshiness of them, their soft brown bodies and soft bashful faces that were also insolent and inquisitive, and their chattering voices that held a brazen fleshy undertone.†   (source)
  • In a long rhythm, with a hoarse undertone, like surf.†   (source)
  • Gotohell!" said Helen, in a comic undertone.†   (source)
  • But this eager complaisance had a peculiar undertone—as if Mr. Bradley were humoring a child.†   (source)
  • The sharp undertone meshed with no cog in the humming street.†   (source)
  • The torrid cracks of the furnace gleamed in the crimson darkness and he heard the throaty undertone of the draft devouring the air.†   (source)
  • PARRITT—(guiltily but with a strange undertone of satisfaction) Yes, I know I shouldn't say that now.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a moment's letup in the noise--shouts, conversations, and always that muttering undertone.†   (source)
  • Voices cracked and broke, and then the whole chorus fell to a sobbing, grunting undertone, and the slap of flesh and the thuddings on the earth; and the sobbing changed to a little whining, like that of a litter of puppies at a food dish.†   (source)
  • No saint was he, but a sportsman unprepared for the revelation of the form that must be beheld without the normal human (i. e., infantile) over— and undertones of desire, surprise, and fear.†   (source)
  • The babel sank to an undertone.†   (source)
  • The game has continued in undertones.†   (source)
  • Simon was hard with them and didn't yield ground whether it was a joke or an argument that came up, while in an undertone he gave me the lowdown on them, contemptuously.†   (source)
  • It was not large and overwhelming now, but secret and poisonous, and the pounding of his heart gave it undertone and rhythm.†   (source)
  • Precise as his tone had remained, I caught an undertone of that blind, bewildering misery and anger that had possessed him at the time he described.†   (source)
  • In particular he liked Chinese cooking, with its subtle undertones of taste; and his first meal at Shangri-La had therefore conveyed a welcome familiarity.†   (source)
  • His voice took on a whining undertone.†   (source)
  • …were moving toward Shiloh without knowing that either, talking again as they moved along in column, the officer dropping back alongside the file in which the private marched and Henry crying again, holding his desperate and urgent voice down to undertone: 'Don't you know yet what you are going to do?' while Bon would look at him for a moment with that expression which could have been smiling 'Suppose I told you I did not intend to go back to her?' and Henry would walk there beside him,…†   (source)
  • The only light came from a lamp over the bar, the heavy air had a curious reddish tinge, and for no apparent reason everyone was speaking in undertones.†   (source)
  • Embarrassed by the growing undertone of laughter, Doc Hines squinted around with a tough grin, gave a comical hitch to his padded figure, and whispered a hoarse aside to Eugene: "Hear that, Hal?†   (source)
  • You could look at the crowd out there and hear that undertone in its cry, hoarse like surf, and think that the crowd there could cause the event.†   (source)
  • Tom's voice held an undertone of anxiety.†   (source)
  • Kemp made some exclamation in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "Thou art the master," said Bagheera in an undertone.†   (source)
  • She gave Philip a stare and then spoke to Mildred in an undertone.†   (source)
  • For two vast days we struggled in undertones and wrestling contests.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Fisher added in an undertone to Selden: "I do hope there hasn't been a row."†   (source)
  • [Takes his arm; in an undertone] She's crying.†   (source)
  • "Lass, have you said all you want to?" queried Catlee, in tense undertone.†   (source)
  • 'Rats,' he said in an undertone, fingers on lips.†   (source)
  • Being careful not to wake up the mate, whose room was opposite, I spoke in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "The fact is," began Mr. Marvel eagerly in a confidential undertone.†   (source)
  • In an undertone she gave some directions to Hannah.†   (source)
  • 'Better than what?' roared Squeers, adding some rather strong language in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "These three Musketeers shall follow us," said he, in an undertone.†   (source)
  • That's another story,' remarked Bazarov in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Then in an undertone, as if to himself, he added, "I may attend the Circus myself."†   (source)
  • 'Wery pretty indeed it is,' remarked Duff, in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "It's wonderful how close poor Peter was," she said, in the same undertones.†   (source)
  • Meantime a consultation was going on in undertones between the lawyers.†   (source)
  • "This," said my godmother in an undertone, "is the child."†   (source)
  • And turning aside, he said in undertones, "Who is the young man?†   (source)
  • "What are you saying to her?" said Morcerf in an undertone.†   (source)
  • 'He drove away the bull,' said the woman in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "Of European reputation," added Mr. Badger in an undertone.†   (source)
  • "Such thing was never heard before—never in all Israel!" said Simonides, in undertone.†   (source)
  • "Yes, suppose!" said Will Ladislaw, in a contemptuous undertone, intended to dismiss the subject.†   (source)
  • Arkady talked in an undertone to Katya, and diplomatically attended to the princess's wants.†   (source)
  • Noirtier wishes to see you to-night, he said, in an undertone.†   (source)
  • 'You wanted to see people, go along,' said Arkady in an undertone.†   (source)
  • Beauchamp took the paper, and read the article to which Albert pointed in an undertone.†   (source)
  • 'He will go in the coach,' interposed Arkady in an undertone.†   (source)
  • 'How good he was with you!' she commented in an undertone.†   (source)
  • 'Here is Sir Nihilist coming towards us,' he said in an undertone.†   (source)
  • The undertone of his words repelled her and she withdrew her adoration for the Divers from the profanity of his bitterness.†   (source)
  • And there was Edward's gruff undertone.†   (source)
  • Longstreth said something in an undertone to Judge Owens, and that worthy nodded his great bushy head.†   (source)
  • "A good thing to know, too," said Brown, pricking up his ears; and Cornelius began to talk of what went on in town and repeated all that had been said in council, gossiping in an even undertone at Brown's ear as you talk amongst sleeping men you do not wish to wake.†   (source)
  • Hawe was spitefully ejecting a wad of tobacco from his mouth and swearing in an undertone about "white-livered Greasers."†   (source)
  • And in Anderson's single greatest story, "The Egg," which appeared a few years after Winesburg, Ohio, he succeeded in bringing together a surface of farce with an undertone of tragedy.†   (source)
  • She even stroked it a little, fondly, with the other hand, murmuring in an undertone, "Pauvre cherie."†   (source)
  • They went back to where the others were standing, talking in undertones: and one said—Sue could not hear which—"She's his wife, I suppose?"†   (source)
  • "Tess is a fine figure o' fun, as I said to myself to-day when I zeed her vamping round parish with the rest," observed one of the elderly boozers in an undertone.†   (source)
  • I heard the other's soothing undertone.†   (source)
  • This will be the ride of your lives," added Jane, in that same soft undertone, almost as if she were musing to herself.†   (source)
  • "Certainly our hostess is much the handsomer of the two," Archer heard Reggie Chivers say in an undertone to young Mrs. Newland; and he remembered Beaufort's coarse sneer at May's ineffectual beauty.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)