But after a while the gentle, persistent lilt of the sentences worked their charm, lulling me into acquiescence.

Alex listened to the gentle lilt of his voice and frowned at the detail; why did these people have to be so obsessed with ritual, she wondered?

The music has a gentle lilt and a steely core.

There was a musical quality to it, a gentle lilt so distinctive that, even when Demora was speaking casually, she sounded as if she were singing.

Her eyes didn't match the gentle lilt of her voice at all.

The twins' mother, Wendy Hunter, speaks in the gentle lilt of the family's native Bahamas.

What should have been a gentle lilt through the work's next section became merely slow playing.

It weakened her, that soft, gentle lilt that came into his voice.

The gentle lilt of the blues tune came to a jangling halt.

The older woman's voice with the gentle lilt of the hills was surprisingly firm.