All 7 Uses
intone
in
A Wrinkle in Time
(Edited)
- "The road to hell is paved with good intentions," Charles intoned.
p. 24.7intoned = said
- "Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis," Mrs Who intoned.
p. 69.1
- How small is the earth to him who looks from heaven: Mrs Who intoned musically.
p. 97.7 *
- "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."
p. 153.4
- "Nobody suffers here," Charles intoned.
p. 157.6
- 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.
p. 173.8intoning = saying
- 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.
p. 176.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(intone) to speak; or (less commonly) to sing or play musicThe exact meaning of intone can depend upon its context. It can mean:
- to say something somberly (slowly and seriously without much change in pitch)
- to speak or sing in a careful manner as with rising and falling pitch
- to say in a particular tone or pitch
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)