1. Her mouth was making croaking, throaty sounds like the toneless cry when we make love.

2. Into the audience hall by the fathomless abyss where swells up the music of toneless strings I shall take this harp of my life.

3. "And kneeled and made the cheerless grate blaze up and the entire cottage warm..." the words, spoken by him in a quiet, toneless voice, took her by surprise.