His voice was a clear tenor, with a faint lilt to it that might have been Welsh.

It was a soft voice with no accent but a faint foreign lilt in it.

He spoke with a faint but recognisable Irish lilt.

"Excellent," she said at last, no faintest lilt of appreciation in her voice.

There was the faintest lilt of amusement in his voice now.

"Lieutenant Dallas," he said in that faint and fascinating Irish lilt, "a pleasure, as always."

The air was awash with far-off cries and the faint lilt of music.

Save for the Goddess-" He spoke the words with a faint lilt, not quite mockery.

The night wind carried a very faint lilt of voices.

Emma liked his voice, and what she would learn later was called its faint Irish lilt.