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... Sunday, when the soup was standing smoking on the table, and the family were about to take their seats for dinner. Master Wacht asked gaily, "And where is our Jonathan?" Rettel, with a view to sparing poor Nanni, replied in an undertone, "Father, don't you know then what's taken place? Wouldn't Jonathan of course be shy of showing himself here in your presence?" "Oh the monkey!" said Wacht, laughing; "let Christian run over at once ...

— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann

... an old man, very old, though hale and sinewy. "The Lord help us!" he soliloquised in an undertone as he ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

... but cannot attain!' Compared with the confident exultation and illimitable sense of the worth of man which distinguished that time, there is something like depression here, as in many other places in Turgot's writings. It is usually less articulate, and is rather conveyed by a running undertone, which so often reveals more of a writer's true mood and temper than is seen in his words, giving to them, by some unconscious and inscrutable process, living effects upon the reader's sense like those of eye and voice ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Turgot • John Morley

... with a deep growling undertone, floated up from the improvised gymnasium in the basement as Captain Pott entered the swinging doors of Willow-Tree Inn. This was followed by a more ominous silence. The seaman bounded down the ...

— Captain Pott's Minister • Francis L. Cooper

... gets out on the road while we're gone, won't I catch it, though!" he exclaimed to Bud in an undertone. ...

— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

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