The Transport man's voice was perfectly neutral, touched with the same flat accent as the Javerrys'.

He heard a woman call out for her children in the flat accent that said States to him, East Coast, North.

He speaks this nonsense word in a perfectly clear, perfectly flat midwestern accent.

Ruchyo affected the flat Midwestern American accent he had practiced.

He spoke with a flat but indefinable accent.

His flat accent, the twang of the Midwest, identifies him as one of them.

"I'm joining up," the second replied, in the flat accents of Asoli.

He began to mimic his son's flat accent, saying half to himself: "At the chapel.

I fell to reflecting what would have happened if the gods had given Helen of Troy exactly those flat accents.

By his flat nasal accent he was a local man, and this was plainly the biggest thing that had ever happened in his career.