This memory of his early days suggested to him the idea of making the young panther answer to this name, now that he began to admire with less terror her swiftness, suppleness, and softness. Toward the end of the day he had familiarized himself with his perilous position; he now almost liked the painfulness of it. At last his companion had got into the habit of looking up at him whenever he cried in a falsetto voice, "Mignonne."英文原著 · 《A Passion in the Desert》
Cow-fashion was a burlesque of this, and the swimmer reared out of water with each stroke, creating tidal waves. It was thought to be vastly comic. Steamboat-fashion was where a fellow swam on his back, keeping his body up by a gentle, secret paddling motion with his hands, while with his feet he lashed the water into foam, like some river stern-wheeler. If he could cry: "Hoo! hoo!" in hoarse falsetto to mimic the whistle, it was an added charm.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
It was Pop who suddenly gave a whoop that cracked and shrilled into falsetto.英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
He bethought himself for a moment, and then, with a sparkle of the eye, and a voice that was by no means bad, excepting that it ran occasionally into a falsetto, like the notes of a split reed, he quavered forth a quaint old ditty:英文原著 · 《Old Christmas》
The Governor's pipe dropped to the floor. A tear trickled from his eye. His voice had risen, and crumbled to a weakling falsetto, and ceased. He was an old, old man about to be bereft of a son that cherished him.英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》
What was the event? A strange uncouth thing, a theatrical figure of the opera, his head shaded with three-coloured plumes, his body fantastically habited, strutted from the back scenes, and, after a short speech, in the mock heroic falsetto of stupid tragedy, delivered the gentleman who came to make the representation into the custody of a guard, with directions not to lose sight of him for a moment; and then ordered him to be sent from Paris in two hours.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
* [IN FALSETTO VOICE] I'm an alien. I'm an alien.美剧 · 《Friends》
Oh, yeah? Well, how about you with the: - * [IN FALSETTO VOICE] "I'm sorry." - Shut up. I wasn't like that at all.美剧 · 《Friends》