God, please," she said, shocked by the pathetic tone of her voice, by the wretched tremor that distorted her words, "bring him home.

There was a pathetic tone in her voice, yet she was forceful.

Then he added simply, with an oddly pathetic tone: "I hadn't thought of that."

There was a soft, pathetic tone to his voice as he spoke these words.

So much is at stake, doctor -" The girl's pathetic tone succeeded.

As she had gone on speaking there had come with her words a strange pathetic, almost pleading, tone which touched me to the quick.

"I feel that I just got her back," said Mahnmut, hearing the pathetic tone in his own radio voice.

But then, as the last page joins the tumbled pile of sheets, it was over (please read in a pathetic tone).

The culprit was moved to a few abject tears by these words and their pathetic tone.

But still the State Department spokeswoman, Margaret Tutwiler, speaks in almost pathetic tones about the fighting.