"Dutch died three times," Drake said in a sepulchral tone.

"You need to go to your wife," he said in sepulchral tones.

"Yes, we can understand you," said one of the creatures standing near them, in hollow, sepulchral tones.

In sepulchral tones Poirot said that it was quite comfortable.

"There is no need for an investigation, gentlemen," he said, in a sepulchral tone.

The middle judge, in sepulchral tones, said, "Let the prisoner approach the bar of justice."

"It's nearly midnight now," he said in a sepulchral tone.

The others remained silent as the man with the raised hand voiced in a forced, sepulchral tone: "Member 1 has word!"

He was not referring to the sepulchral tones coming from nowhere on the highway.

His voice dropped several octaves, taking on a sepulchral tone.