I dare say you mean well, answered Withers, in a contemptuous tone.

There was such a contemptuous tone in her voice that he resented this.

Oscar, perceiving he had guessed right, added, in a contemptuous tone:

Miriam asked, without looking at him, in an idly contemptuous tone.

That's the man I mean, he said in a contemptuous tone.

But he remained cold and stern, and in a contemptuous tone-

Josephina cut short her husband's chatter in a cold, contemptuous tone.

But he won't bite, she said in a somewhat contemptuous tone.

His shadow in the lighted room", said Nostromo, in a contemptuous tone.

The contemptuous tone of Danvers stung him to the quick.

Mademoiselle d'Arlange's haughty, contemptuous tone could only anger the magistrate.

El Sol uttered these words in a contemptuous tone.

Their contemptuous tone is another reminder of the deep betrayal those spied upon have suffered.

I heard again the skeptic's contemptuous tone of yesterday.

Rexhill's slightly contemptuous tone worked upon Wade in his exhausted, overwrought condition, and stung him.

Why do you speak in that contemptuous tone.