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It has a soothing script: unity, reconciliation and — as anchors must have intoned a billion times — “the peaceful transition of power.”

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2017

His Grace of Canterbury himself could not have intoned words of command more melodiously than Willie did.

From The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919 by Ogilvie, David Douglas

I have intoned such jeremiads myself, and I do not believe that music is suffering from a greater want to-day than that of a more thorough training for singers.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward