Crossword-Solution: VOCE 4 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Stopping at the soft drink dispenser, the court reporter glanced around carefully then said sotto voce, "What a farce.

She drew herself up with dignity, and only replied to Captain Brown’s last remark by saying, with marked emphasis on every syllable, “I prefer Dr Johnson to Mr Boz.” It is said—I won’t vouch for the fact—that Captain Brown was heard to say, _sotto voce_, “D-n Dr Johnson!” If he did, he was penitent afterwards, as he showed by going to stand near Miss Jenkyns’ arm-chair, and endeavouring to beguile her into conversation on some more pleasing subject.

The Assyse, all in ane voce, be the mouth of the said Thomas Galloway, chanceller, chosen be thame, ffand, pronouncet and declairit the said Robert Weir to be ffylit, culpable and convict of the crymes above specifiet, mentionat in the said Dittay; and that in respect of his Confessioun maid thairof, in Judgement.

But when I overheard Rose’s _sotto voce_ to the Marquise: ‘Comme ils sont gentils!’ I indignantly retorted that ‘it wasn’t kind of the hare at all: it was entirely due to my skill in setting the traps.

Poyser would probably have brought her rejoinder to a further climax, if every one’s attention had not at this moment been called to the other end of the table, where the lyricism, which had at first only manifested itself by David’s _sotto voce_ performance of “My love’s a rose without a thorn,” had gradually assumed a rather deafening and complex character.