"Very softly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what! But you're my Chubbins just the same; my Chubbins!" and he very softly put his ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... Minto in a familiar attitude, stooping over a very small fire; but as she ran up the stairs very softly, with a nervous dread of Toby, she had no conception of the welcome which awaited her. She opened the door and went into the dingy room, and stood smiling; and to her great surprise she saw her mother rise almost wildly and come towards her. Two thin arms pressed and fondled her, and a thin old ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton
... was replenishing the fire, and as she struggled drowsily back into consciousness, she realized that he was not Cousin Jimmy, but O'Hara, and that he was placing the lumps of coal very softly in the ...
— Life and Gabriella - The Story of a Woman's Courage • Ellen Glasgow
... a rainy day.' At midnight he went to bed, and slept till four; even when his servant called him, he fell asleep again while his clothes were being made ready. He rode to the scaffold in his own carriage, attended by two famous clergymen, TILLOTSON and BURNET, and sang a psalm to himself very softly, as he went along. He was as quiet and as steady as if he had been going out for an ordinary ride. After saying that he was surprised to see so great a crowd, he laid down his head upon the block, ...
— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens
... German, very softly. "Just at this moment courtesy must be suspended. With a general mobilization ...
— The Boy Scouts In Russia • John Blaine
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