Her voice took on a faintly righteous tone.

"Words are important," he thunders at one point in a righteous tone that suggests he's climbed back up on the pedestal.

"Some people who teach art classes claim to be 'famous instructors,' but it's about the art," she announced in a slightly righteous tone.

And then they settled back and talked in righteous tones about the injustices they said were done to their people.

"Don't take that righteous tone with me," Threnody said sharply.

His righteous tone drew howls from everyone who heard him; Gaius Philippus mutely held out a hand with three upraised fingers.

All I can say," Shirley muttered in a righteous tone, "is that you better not think about talking to him through a television set.

"I'm sorry," she tells us, with little apology in her righteous tone, "but I did not go to medical school to clean my own house."

In a righteous tone he described his client as an experienced boat captain, respected businessman, and"pillar of the community."

Mrs Copleigh in a righteous tone, 'it's awful, that there should be men like that.