He pointed out in doleful tones that you couldn't say to labour-saving appliances: "Jump lively now, my hearties."

"A good many things," murmured the prince, in a doleful tone of voice.

By the doleful tone in his voice, he found that unlikely.

"Jerry sad," he announced in tones so doleful that Martha van Vogel did not know whether to laugh or to cry.

"I only wish I had poisoned claws and a double set of teeth," he replied in a doleful tone.

"Tomorrow we go," said Qual, in what sounded like a doleful tone.

However, the determinedly doleful tone defies laughter.

"Truer word was never spoken," Chuck said in a doleful tone.

His voice took on a doleful tone as he exchanged a worried look with Picard.

Mr. Peres asked, standing in the municipal auditorium, addressing city officials, rabbis, teachers and others in doleful tones.