"Yes, ma'am, Anthony--Tony Sandford," was the reply--it was uttered in a vulgar
nasal tone, that Julia instantly perceived was counterfeited: but Miss Emmerson, with perfect innocency, proceeded in her inquiries.
There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a
nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.
Or, supposing him asleep, how infantile a quietude of conscience, and what wholesome order in the gastric region, are betokened by slumber so entirely undisturbed with starts, cramp, twitches, muttered dreamtalk, trumpet-blasts through the
nasal organ, or any slightest irregularity of breath!
The noise consists in a short, but not rough,
nasal grunt, which is monotonously repeated about four times in quick succession: [6] the name Tucutuco is given in imitation of the sound.
"He is a holy man!" replied Porthos, in a tone almost
nasal, and with his eyes raised towards heaven.