Sir Edwin's voice held a subtly menacing note.

Chief Newby also gets a hint of trouble when another candy box, apparently containing a blood-soaked heart, arrives at the police building with a menacing note - 'You didn't stop the party!'

General Bullvers' voice, magnified into a menacing note, again swept over it.

The thunder and lightning of the late-night storm strike a menacing note into the peaceful Sunday gathering of the Manettes, Lorry, Darnay, and Carton.

Comprising four menacing notes, it is heard frequently in scenes involving the threat of the carnivorous dinosaurs - the raptors in particular.

The golden voice was octaves deeper, vibrant, throbbing with that muffled, menacing note that must have pulsed from the golden tambours that summoned to battle Timur's fierce hordes.

She'd be able to think more clearly if she was away from Eastlake, and perhaps come up with the answer as to who was behind these menacing notes.

The menacing notes filled the palace, reaching to the throne-room, but the haughty patricians pretended not to hear the voice of the cattle.

To Mildred, Craig's voice carried a menacing note as the gloom of the grove seemed to muffle its bass tones.

'Rid yourself of the notion, sir,' he said on a menacing note, 'that it is any more acceptable to me than it is to you!'