The distant tone that I'd come to know in the past month crept into his voice.

Once Horton recovered, he assumed a more serious and distant tone.

He heard the tone of his own voice, distant and unyielding.

Each time they paused, the distant tones showed no reaction.

That same distant tone, drawing all the life out of him.

Ann's voice had that distant, dead tone it took on when she was angry.

When he spoke next his voice once again had the cold distant tones of someone speaking in a steel room.

"These things happen," she surprised him by saying in a very distant tone.

"No." She tried not to be hurt by his polite, distant tone of voice.

Frasa said in the same distant tone his brother had used.