"If he is dead," added Pencroft, in a peculiar tone.

"It's not that," she said in a peculiar tone of voice.

"Yes," he told her, "you've got to talk in a peculiar tone of voice."

His voice took on a peculiar tone, as if her were reciting something he had memorized.

"Perhaps," said Bob, in a peculiar tone which the old man did not notice.

The peculiar tone in her voice woke him up at once.

He spoke still in that peculiar, husky tone, and, when the last words were out, his teeth went together with a snap.

This is Brooks's peculiar, earnest tone of voice again, difficult to interpret.

There was a peculiar tone in the girl's question.

The butler spoke to his master in a peculiar tone.