"Singsong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "they are too monotonous, too singsong, to dead-and-alive; they have no expression, no elocution. It isn't natural; it could never happen in real life. A person who had just acquired a dog is either blame' glad or blame' sorry. He is not on the fence. I never saw a case. What the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... a general laugh, in the midst of which Mr. Gresley, whose complexion had deepened, sprang to his feet and endeavored to attract Dick's attention, but Dick saw nothing but his audience. Mr. Gresley began to speak in his high, "singsong" voice. ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... great water bowl in both hands and emptied the whole contents over himself. Then be resumed his smelly garments without troubling to dry his body, and got out a Quran from a corner and began to read it in a nasal singsong that would have kept dead men awake. King lay and watched ...
— King—of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy
... group of Indians who had slouched toward them in the meantime and spoke to them in the singsong monotone of ...
— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor |
