Reed stopped at the desperate tone to the boy's voice.

He couldn't keep the desperate tone completely from his voice.

But selling the military as a career when newspaper headlines are heralding big troop cuts has taken on almost desperate tones.

Startled by the desperate tone of his voice, she relented, first stepping out and looking carefully down the quiet street in both directions.

"The party can't split up," said the Brigadier, in a desperate tone.

Drizzt couldn't understand any of the boy's words, but the desperate tone rang clearly enough.

The template of the calls - dry land and crushing debt - never varied, nor did their desperate tone.

But Ralph's prayer has a desperate and disillusioned tone.

'I tell you it was no lie,' he said in a desperate tone.

Finally he said in a desperate tone: "Darling, please do understand me, I must go!