With a pencil, Weston checked one of the names on the list, speaking the while in an indulgent tone.

Silence pushed herself away, and even managed a smile at the engineer's indulgent tone.

"And I'm giving you another," Christopher said in the indulgent tone he might have used to address a very small child.

Northrup laughed in an indulgent tone and shrugged his shoulders.

Richard lost his indulgent tone as he leaned toward her.

Those words though spoken in Jeremy's most indulgent tones, were open to several interpretations.

In a mild, indulgent tone, the lawyer spoke with finality.

When he spoke it was in clipped but indulgent tones.

Basil's indulgent tone stung, as perhaps it was meant to.

It was the old tone, the indulgent tone he had used years ago.