Word: tone
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great mass of our citizens fully realize and appreciate the advantages we enjoy from its location among us. By reason of it the name and fame of our beloved city is extended almost world wide, a higher standard of education necessarily prevails in our schools, and the whole tone of society is influenced and raised by the large number of people gathered within our borders in connection with the university, or from congenial associations. There is probably no like instance in our country or the world where the relations sustained between government and university are so harmonious. In return...
While I, seeking for the appropriate words and requisite rhyme to express in an equally original manner the fact that her cheeks were also like roses, whereas her eyes and hair were not, she interrupted all further flow of inward poesy by inquiring, in a tone of ill-omened penetrativenes...
...said Professor Agony, looking over his shoulder. "They're made in the dominant fashion. The resolution of this question of diminished tone depends upon whether the previous cadence of fashion has come to an authentic close, - I mean come to an end. I mean - no, rub that out. You know you must n't have too much unity in variety, nor too much variety in unity, but just enough unity...
...hope so; why not?" Not much in themselves, these words; but the tone was so low, so pleading, so hopeful, and withal so sweet, that the answer meant much...
...calc'late ye kin beat 'bout everything 'round here, don't ye?" spoke up the grocer's man in a congratulatory tone of voice, which instantly decided me to purchase, from that time on, all the necessaries of life from his assortment...