Tenor

Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics.

It is the conſciouſneſs of this merited approbation and eſteem which is alone capable of ſupporting the agent in this tenour of conduct.

Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.

Than he shall delyuer to vs a tenour of that he ought to do.

When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.

He would have learned , by the whole tenor of the divine law , and especially by the example of the absent Lord , whose property he was for a season trusted with , that he was to do as much good to humanity , and win as much glory to God, as was compatible with the measure of his trust, and for the time for which he might retain it.

The general tenor of the report on No. 35020 is that all the improvements in performance aimed at in the rebuilding of these engines have been achieved.

He has a tenor voice.

Many a star athlete has very little hair anywhere except what he wears on top of his head, and a voice that is absolutely tenor.

Sometimes Charlie would sing notes that were more tenor than original melody, forcing Bill to sing a high baritone-style line.

The door swung open, and a masculine voice—a little more tenor than Brookes's bass tones—called, “Brookes, come in. Do you have your colleague with you?”

Kahn was not a big man and he had a voice that was a little more tenor than most preferred.