a tone QUOTES

21 " That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct. "

23 " A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. " I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!" " I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; " but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know." " I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; " but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say. "

25 " For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever.
“Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable.

“Really what?” I asked.
“Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?”
He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me.

“Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you. "

― Patricia Briggs , Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson, #5)

27 " Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: " Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed. "

29 " I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA. "