And yet a voice was again raised, this time murmuring in a plaintive tone, "Michael!"

By the end, the question had a more plaintive tone.

But her book doesn't have the plaintive tone of a woman seeking to exonerate herself.

After a minute or two he said in a plaintive tone: Young man, do you know how they get the water out of a mine?

"This is my shop," the fat man replied in a plaintive tone.

"I don't want to talk to you," she said, hating her plaintive tone.

"Just let me get warm first," Silk said in a plaintive tone.

But he did speak up, in plaintive tones: "I don't understand."

"This girl is nuts," he said to his wife in a plaintive, whining tone.

"Maybe he can help us," she said in a plaintive tone.