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Meanings of weary tone in English

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Usage of weary tone in English
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She told me all this in the same calm, half weary tone.
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
2
So I called out, in what I tried to make a weary tone:
Never let me go
3
Finally he looked up and said in a weary tone:
The Agony Column
4
It's our luck t' git licked often, said his friend in a weary tone.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
5
The Bishop plagued her straight along, till at last she said, in a weary tone:
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2
6
It is this seasoned, slightly weary tone which adds a wonderful piquancy to her singing.
The Irish Times
7
She walked slowly, and, seating herself beside Beulah, said, in a gentle but weary tone:
Beulah
8
His letters began to take on a weary tone.
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
9
He invariably replied, in a quiet, weary tone:
Original Short Stories — Volume 08
10
The only reply was "Thank you," in a weary tone.
Eve's Ransom
11
Her world- weary tone suggests to me that Mr.
The Fuller Memorandum
12
She twined her thin, hot fingers round Beulah's cold hand, and spoke in a weary tone.
Beulah
13
She spoke in rather a weary tone.
Herb of Grace
14
In the same weary tone he asked me a last question: Did I regret what I had done?
The stranger
15
The reply had a weary tone.
The Genius
16
But don't worry about it, he added in the weary tone of one long accustomed to coping with subordinates' blunders.
The wrong venus
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