"Low-toned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to remain behind," replied Mrs. Allison in a low-toned aside, "and as she would have been of no use whatever, we did not urge her ...
— Grandmother Elsie • Martha Finley
... her," said Miss White, in that low-toned, gravely sincere voice of hers, while a faint shell-like pink suffused her face. "It was only that we were talking of the highlands, because we understood you were coming; and Mrs. Ross was trying to make out"—and here a spice of proud mischief came into ...
— Macleod of Dare • William Black
... kind and gentle that there seemed more hope of moving her than any one else; so to her she went, and, delighted to find her comparatively alone, no one being near enough to overhear a low-toned conversation, began ...
— Elsie at Nantucket • Martha Finley
... that have struck me, I believe it is this which has always given most contentment to myself."[128] This moderate conception of felicity, which was always so characteristic with him, as an even, durable, and rather low-toned state of the feelings, accounts for his prolonged acquiescence in a companion whom men with more elation in their ideal would assuredly have found hostile even ...
— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley
... Betimes The grandest songs depart, While the gentle, humble, and low-toned rhymes Will echo from heart ...
— Poets of the South • F.V.N. Painter |
