Potential Titles: Monotone/Monotony

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Muffled by the storm's dull monotone - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"

Break the reign of monotone - John Philip Bourke "The Versemakers"

Move on to monotones, solemn and slow - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

In mournful monotones were mixed - Mary Freeman Goldbeck "On Hearing a 'Trio'" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Lost in the monotone of night - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"

Their cries in lonely monotone - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Water sparkling a drowsy monotone - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

Within the rain's grey monotone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Dream-Bridge"

Face the day's white monotone - Helen Hay Whitney "The Ribbon"

A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

Landscapes drawn in pearly monotones - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"


This monotonous disaster - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Some seasons come close to monotonous - Monica de la Torre "No mode of excitement is absolutely colorless"

The hours have tumbled their leaden, monotonous sands - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"


With the clock's monotony maddened - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"

The seasonless monotonies of walls - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

Jaded with monotony of lights - Lola Ridge "East River"

Through a divine monotony of Spring on spring - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

No answer for life's grey monotonies - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

Enter their superb monotony - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Tone Deep"

Worn with long monotonies of pain - Helen Hay Whitney "The Scarlet Thread"


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