Doul spoke in a soft monotone, and Bellis looked down at her hands.

Miss Beaver, kneeling beside young Frank's bed, talked tenderly to him in a soft monotone.

The whole time he had spoken in a soft monotone, with a distinct lack of enthusiasm.

The closest Bikura stepped forward, stopped five paces from me, and said something in a soft monotone.

Perrin grunted, and Mat began cursing in a soft monotone that even Nynaeve's glare did not stop.

Hazel shut her eyes and clasped her hands, speaking in a soft monotone as if repeating a lesson.

She remembered dozing in the backseat of the car as a child, listening to the soft monotone of her parents' conversation.

The female voice started instructing her where to turn, her soft monotone enough to lull Kylie off to sleep if she dwelled on it.

"No," said Father Captain de Soya in a soft monotone, "it's Web-era technology.

Through all the turmoil and confusion of the wildly disordered house Jennie kept repeating the foolish old hymn in soft monotones:

"It's a strange thing," he said in his soft monotone.

"He-ee Nuka-hiva!" they sang in a soft monotone, while they pulled hard for the mouth of the bay.