Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Gounod's oratorio, "Redemption," is said to be richly colored in the orchestral portion, but decidedly French in tone...
...course he had had considerable champagne, but he had no right to tell her that they call them Germans because they are too-tone...
...blows the cornet in Holyoke really is quite toot-tone...
Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...exception of the large bell in the parish church of Montreal, Canada, which weighs 29,500 lbs, Notre Dame possesses the largest in America. It has been heard on a clear day as far as 27 miles to the west and 24 to the east; it has a rich tone, and as a work of its kind is unsurpassed. Its weight without yoke or hangings is 13,000 Ibs. - [Scolastic...