It was a remote and formal voice that I might or might not have heard before.

He drifted away into the front room, his voice remote and blurred.

Then in a remote voice he asked, "Just how old are you?"

"I have their every confidence," he said at last, his voice remote and somehow very sad.

Rhadamanthus spoke in a voice more remote and cold than she had ever heard him use before.

It was hard to face,' Eve went on in a remote voice.

"I'd rather not talk about my marriage registration," Nick said in his most remote voice.

"Sure you will," said the woman who was sitting next to Radcliffe, in a remote voice.

Bungler, said a remote, superior voice Will hadn't heard in some time.

"That thing out there," he said in a remote voice.