Does not understand the English language, but judges by the
intonation.
I accepted the invitation with a worldly grin and a perfectly just
intonation, because I really didn't care what I did.
The dialect was on her tongue to some extent, despite the village school: the characteristic
intonation of that dialect for this district being the voicing approximately rendered by the syllable UR, probably as rich an utterance as any to be found in human speech.
I weighed myself automatically, for that was a matter near my heart; but I forgot to give my man his sixpence until the reproachful
intonation of his adieu recalled me to myself.
There was a rather pettish
intonation in Fleur-de-Lys's-- laconic words.
Philip had heard him speak, and, though his English was fluent and natural, it had not quite the
intonation of the native.
returned Aramis, with the same
intonation on the word friend that he had applied to it the first time - "I mean that if there has been any confusion, scandal, and even effort in the substitution of the prisoner for the king, I defy you to prove it.
A tall, goggled, grey-haired man who was driving inquired with an Oxford
intonation and a clear, careful enunciation, "Can WE help at all?
He spoke in that refined French in which our grandfathers not only spoke but thought, and with the gentle, patronizing
intonation natural to a man of importance who had grown old in society and at court.
Gardner, with a slight
intonation of tolerant wonder.
growled the rough, with the deep rasping
intonation of a savage.
Instead of qualifying nouns or verbs by the use of adjectives and adverbs, we qualified sounds by
intonation, by changes in quantity and pitch, by retarding and by accelerating.
He grunted with a slight
intonation of resentment, and that was all.
Morgan, with the mechanical
intonation of an interpreter translating, "the loss of Mr.
he observed, with a touch of sadness in his
intonation, as he admiringly contemplated the infant.