Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for the Yeers of the Vulgar Era 1633...

Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.

Go on back to the City, child, she said, very calmly, and when you are close enough, farspeak the Council.

I saw no more of it than this sort of luminous panel, sharply defined against a vague and shadowy background, like the panels which the glow of a Bengal light or a searchlight beam will cut out and illuminate in a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness