"I hope this isn't where you do business," she said in her crispest tones.

"Stick out your tongue," she repeated in a crisp tone.

In the crisp tone that had made her a superb cop, she whispered, "Freeze, or you're dead."

His anger had never been directed at her; he rarely criticized, and then only in a crisp impersonal tone.

There was a sneer to the crisp tone that interrupted.

"No idea," he said in a crisp tone that discouraged further discussion.

Turning to the throng, Clinch addressed them in the same crisp tone.

Through the speaking tube, Clinch gave the order in a voice that lacked its crisp tone.

Her crisp tone made him smile a little.

"My advice is to forget the fellow," said Densholm, in a crisp tone.