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To thunder out; intonation, the thundering of the voice. (Latin, tono, to thunder.) The Romans said that Cicero and Demosthenes “thundered out their orations.” To recite in a musical monotone.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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