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1 Pollyooly flushed faintly; but she said bravely, in an explanatory tone :
2 Marlow looked at me, significantly, and remarked in an explanatory tone :
3 It's about Hutchings, said Mr. Manley in an explanatory tone .
4 I've got a devilish mean work on hand, said Dyke Darrel in an explanatory tone .
5 I'm getting an old man, a very old man, he said, in an explanatory tone .
6 Then, controlling herself, she added in an explanatory tone : In this case, Baron, your far-famed penetration deceived you.
7 Councillor Mikulin dropped the page of foolscap, glanced down his beard, and turning to Razumov, added in an easy, explanatory tone -
8 The mother looked distressed for a moment, and then smoothed her features and said in an explanatory tone , -' It 's the weather, I think.
9 'Mother Manikin,' said one of the dwarfs, in an explanatory tone .
10 "That is, I wait until you come," in an explanatory tone .
11 "I can't talk any more now," she said, reverting to an explanatory tone of voice.
12 "Meat," said Cochrane in an explanatory tone .
13 "She was a ward of my step-father's till she came of age," she added, in an explanatory tone .
14 "What's the matter with him?" The stranger addressed Bessie with the utmost familiarity, in a deliberate, explanatory tone .
15 "Make Dodo go 'way then," bargained Paul, adding in an explanatory tone : "Last time she pulled my hair."
16 "She is your sister," he added, in an explanatory tone , after a pause; and despised himself for the subterfuge.
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