Her questions ended not in an inquisitorial lilt but with a descending, matter-of-fact thud.

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Julie Freeman has luminous eyes and the captivating lilt of a natural storyteller.

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Something about her endearing country lilt and her laid-back way of looking at life appealed to me.

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He has strong Italianate looks and ancestry, but he speaks with the accented lilt of his birth country, Scotland.

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When he finally returned our Skype calls, his baritone had the clipped intonation of a forced foreign accent, which eventually gave way to what sounded like a Scottish lilt.

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Dancehall superstar Sean Paul is best known for his maddeningly catchy hooks, his distinctive Jamaican lilt and ever-changing hairstyles that have run the gamut from cornrows to his current mohawk.

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The excitement in her South African lilt spoke volumes.

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Mary, a charming and gently-spoken woman who speaks English with the soft lilt of the native Gaelic-speaker - has a photograph of them all in Edinburgh: some haven't seen one another since.

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Every island had its own character and superlatives, but each was linked by unfailing friendliness, the gentle lilt of the Hawaiian ukulele, a tropical climate that generally steadied between 80F and 88F, and a never-ending series of achingly beautiful sunsets.

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The Brummie accent, a nasal drone that suggests despondency to anyone outside Birmingham who is lucky enough to hear it, is also spreading as its speakers move west into Wales, where it threatens to snuff out the melodic local lilt.

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The picture has a melancholy lilt.

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