"All right," he declared, his voice taking on a ridiculously lofty tone.

"Lieutenant," the prince said in a lofty tone, "if you don't mind?"

"That's why you're the student, and we're the teachers," Daja said in her loftiest tone.

"You'll have to wait your turn," he told Bheid in a lofty tone of voice.

"That has not been determined as yet," he replied in a lofty tone.

"It is a subject which you do not understand," said Persilian, still using a lofty tone.

'He won't be at this place,' Doreen assured her in a lofty tone.

"Well, then, you leave me no recourse," she said in a lofty tone.

"I happen to write the best epitomes in Rome," said her son, his tone lofty.

Spivey countered by taking a lofty tone, making a strong case for teamwork.