1867, Edward William Cox,The Arts of Writing, Reading and Speaking, page155:
The supposed religious tone must be banished, so far as it is applied to the book itself or to the words printed in it; but there is areverential tone, properly applicable to the meaning conveyed by the words, which should be cultivated.
2012, Jill Dolan,The Feminist Spectator as Critic, University of Michigan Press,→ISBN, page94:
Thereverential tone intensified as this section progressed. When each spectator had purportedly become her mother, she was invited to share her mother's wisdom, prefaced by the words "I always said."
