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intone

verb as in utter

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“Alas, poor spud!” she had just done intoning, Hamlet-like, to the withered potato, which was now furry with mold.

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“In honor of the great orations of antiquity,” Alexander intoned.

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“Now is when the Veil will part, but it will not stay open for long,” she intoned, looking around.

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“There is curse on the wolf babies, and on their kin,” she intoned.

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But “count no mortal happy till / he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain,” as the chorus intones at the end of Sophocles’ tragedy.

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