"That hard tone in your voice tells me maybe I should."

He likes to swing, and uses a big, hard tone.

The hard, formal tone in her voice set my heart racing.

"Yes, do let's have a care for the clothing and furniture," he said in a hard tone.

The hard fierce tone of it which she had not heard in years.

The woman speaks in a hard tone, almost angry at points.

"You needed a rest," he said, in a hard tone.

I said to him in a hard tone he had never heard from me.

She didn't cower at his hard tone as most would have done.

John was talking, in the hard, street-wise tone she'd heard earlier from him.