"Anticipation is always half the enjoyment," he advised in that cold, lifeless voice.

Mat barely looked up enough to keep from walking into people while the words poured out in a lifeless voice.

"I'm sorry you hurt yourself," she said in a dull, lifeless voice.

"There may be one person who might know something," she said, her lovely voice dull, flat, lifeless.

In a lifeless voice he asked, 'Where do you think we are?

"I felt it appropriate," she answered in a small, lifeless voice, and turned back to the open window.

In a dull, lifeless voice, she said, "Might as well wait for them on deck."

"I accept full responsibility," he said, his voice flat, lifeless.

One of them, speaking in a dull and lifeless voice, told us where we could find the foreman.

The doctor said, still in the same lifeless voice: "Got him through the head.