'Don't ask me to sew it,' Pie says in an arch tone of voice, and then gives a horrible choked laugh.

"I resent that characterization, Captain," Garbeck said in a very arch tone.

Driving home her point, she added in an arch tone, "He is also our only ally close enough to reach the Sagittarius in time."

"Maybe Phil did that 'cause folks don't cotton to strangers round these parts," Lyles said with what might have been an arch tone.

"Children don't have stomachs; they have tummies," Lorn offers in a falsely arch tone.

Killashandra had asked in an arch tone.

"Don't take that arch tone with me, brother," she said tartly.

And his mother, in an arch tone: 'Not for lack of trying, dear.'

With her art history background and an arch tone that occasionally teeters into camp, Collins makes for an improbable automobile aficionado.