Both Uses of
modulate
in
Middlemarch
- and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow such as we travel far to see in later life, and see larger, but not more beautiful.†
Chpt 1
- "I am very glad to hear it," said Dorothea, laughing out her words in a bird-like modulation, and looking at Will with playful gratitude in her eyes.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
to regulate or make something less severe