"I have no choice," he said in a dull monotone.

He settles on something, a dull monotone I cannot make out.

He gob bed off some orders in a dull monotone to the guards.

"Your body is air," Chiun said softly in a dull monotone.

His words were uttered in a dull monotone from lips that scarcely seemed to move.

"You are like Elizabeth," he said, in the dull monotone of one dreaming.

"Yes, I'll be there," he repeated in a dull monotone, speaking to himself.

"There's been a mistake," she said, her voice a dull monotone.

He was talking in the dull monotone that people use when the pain of a memory numbs them.

Everything about him was the same dull monotone, except his eyes, which shone green with repressed fury.