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1 Her voice had been cold and detached, using the tone the proud employ to the criminal.
2 He did not know that he came near using the tone one takes toward a lost child.
3 After a brief but embarrassing pause Porter spoke, using the tone Katherine associated with the stern but kindly rebukes of her childhood.
4 At times she has done it " using the tone of a schoolteacher, scolding her students or wagging her finger," Giacobbe said.
5 "You don't say?" I said, using the tone I used with Caroline when she prattled at me while I was reading a newspaper.
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