When the wrestlers left the arena, hidden drums rumbled--throbbed out a tuneless miserere.
In addition, they had a brass band that played tuneless, wailing music nearly every night, to the accompaniment of the howling and barking of dogs.
Another answered it; another took it up; and the melancholy baying wavered from roof to roof--a tuneless dirge.
Half an hour later she was standing by the spinet, absently touching the tuneless keys, when a voice from the window startled her.
The only answer to the noise was a thin, tuneless whistle from the deck above them.
She began to hum softly, to herself, as it were, some tuneless air.
In a cracked and tuneless voice he began humming a roundelay, evidently intended to express gaiety and contentment.
Exactly thus had he often listened to it swishing through the crannies of high rocks, tuneless yet searching.
