Mr Undershaft is a gifted trombonist: he shall intone an Olympian diapason to the West Ham Salvation March.
"Major Barbara"
George Bernard Shaw
The abbot began to intone the ceremony in a style of modulation impressively exalted, his voice issuing most canonically from the roof of his mouth, through the medium of a very musical nose newly tuned for the occasion.
"Maid Marian"
Thomas Love Peacock
They say the old sayings, they intone the old responses, but somehow it seems that scepticism is abroad; it seems that the world is wider than their system.
"Oxford"
Lang, Andrew