tenor

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tenori

kulku puhekieltä Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
A person, instrument{{, or group that performs in the tenor (gloss) range.
puhekieltä Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies. tone Tone, as of a conversation.
(quote-book)
puhekieltä duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
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Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.

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When it the bond is paid according to the tenor.

Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men?

He has a tenor voice.

Many a star athlete has very little hair anywhere except what he wears on top of his head, and a voice that is absolutely tenor.

Sometimes Charlie would sing notes that were more tenor than original melody, forcing Bill to sing a high baritone-style line.

The door swung open, and a masculine voice—a little more tenor than Brookes&39;s bass tones—called, “Brookes, come in. Do you have your colleague with you?”

Kahn was not a big man and he had a voice that was a little more tenor than most preferred.