1 Probably the reader will have noticed that, for all his expressions of solicitude, Chichikov's tone towards his hostess partook of a freer, a more unceremonious, nature than that which he had adopted towards Madam Manilov.
2 "Fairly well," replied Chichikov, but with a touch of dryness in his tone.
3 He spoke without the least surprise in his tone, and much as though the conversation had been turning on grain.
4 Then he added aloud, with irritation in his tone: "See here."
5 The guest's tone was almost piteous in its appeal.
6 "You seem to get great store upon views and beauty," remarked Kostanzhoglo with reproof in his tone.
7 I cannot bear the tone he adopts.
8 Chichikov adopted a firmer and more decided tone.
9 At the same time, it is for a subordinate to adapt himself to the tone of his superior, rather than for a superior to adapt himself to the tone of his subordinate.
10 This surgeon's son was not only not overawed, he even gave abrupt and indifferent answers, and in the tone of his voice there was something churlish, almost insolent.
11 'Classical,' Arkady answered in the same tone of voice.
12 'We had better go to sleep,' said Arkady, in a tone of vexation.
13 He was evidently uncomfortable at these reminiscences, and was, I fancy, always afraid that I might take up the same tone again.
14 During his last year at school he came in for an estate of two hundred serfs, and as almost all of us were poor he took up a swaggering tone among us.
15 "Not all married women are happy," she snapped out in the rude abrupt tone she had used at first.