After a while Chris spoke, more to drown out the earnest synthetic voice than anything else.

"Because the map includes valuable secret information," said the girl to the right in an earnest voice.

The depth that comes from real questioning may one day be revealed in these earnest voices, but not yet.

"We would lay down our lives for the man," Sebastian said in an earnest voice.

Silence held the room as she spoke, her earnest young voice catching now and then, but clear.

The deep, earnest voice went on: We are getting no transmissions from inside the affected area.

These entreaties, in a low, reasonable, and terribly earnest voice, began the moment I first stood inside his room.

"Very well, now you have the power," he said in a deadly earnest voice.

"Now listen to me," said Jack suddenly, in such an earnest voice that all three children turned to him at once.

Mary Maude asked in the gentle, earnest voice you use with slow children.