"In a low voice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the circle of men, saw standing among them Ben, the half-witted boy who lived in the old hunter's cabin. Seeing that he was observed, the lad sidled over to Wilbur and said, in a low voice, questioningly: ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Foresters • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... know, I didn't know," he repeated in a low voice. His eyes were on the ground. Then, with a sharp motion, as if merely standing in front of her was unendurable, "Oh, Lord!" he said, and, turning, walked from her toward the window. He went precipitately, as if he meant to go through it, but he only leaned against ...
— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain
... returned to the ballroom; and Horatio having contrived it so as to get next Charlotta, she could not refuse the offer he made her of his hand to lead her in; but as he was about saying something to her in a low voice, a man came hastily to him, and taking him a little on one side, presented him with a letter, and then retired with so much precipitation, that Horatio could neither ask from whom it came, nor well discern what sort of person it was that gave ...
— The Fortunate Foundlings • Eliza Fowler Haywood
... her head lower still on her mother's breast, and recounted to her, in a low voice, without looking up once, the terrible revelation which had been made to her, and which ...
— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet
... flooring. Upon this three beds were spread, each occupied by three boys. Those who could not be accommodated in this way laid on the carpet. Some of the boys were already asleep; two were smoking, and conversing in a low voice. Looking about him Ben recognized acquaintances in ...
— Ben, the Luggage Boy; - or, Among the Wharves • Horatio Alger
... hushed in the depression of despair. Until that day they had heard Mrs. Boyle's hopeful voice cheering her husband, upon whom the foreboding of disaster seemed to weigh prophetically. Sometimes she had sung in a low voice as she watched beside her son. But now her courage seemed to have left her, and she sat in the tent with the Governor, huddled like two old tempest-beaten birds hiding under a frail shelter which could not shield them from the last bitter blow. They had given the care of their ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... still they hesitated. Then the sheriff turned and said something to them in a low voice, and they forthwith faced about and deliberately marched back toward their lodgings. In this retrograde movement the sheriff acted as rear guard, and he had not gone above a dozen steps, before a rotten egg burst on one shoulder of his fine ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... up entirely the idea of being a teacher yourself?" he asked, in a low voice, "or has the kindness of friends rendered it superfluous? I do not ask from curiosity out a deep ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz
... Androvsky spoke to each other for the first time, on the top of a tower where they had come to see the sunset. Domini spoke first, moved by a strange look of loneliness, of desolation, in Androvsky's eyes. He replied in a low voice, and asked her pardon for his rude conduct at the station. Then, abruptly, he descended the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Volume V. • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... "And," entreated Peregrine humbly, in a low voice to Mrs. Woodford on his last Sunday evening, "may I not have something of yours, to lay hold of, and remember you if—when—the evil spirit tries to lay ...
— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge
... transfer the prisoner Witte from the hands of the High Council of War to those of the court of justice. On which the Grand Pensionary first protested with a loud voice, that it was necessary to wait till Friday for the resolution of the Sovereign thereon; and then, in a low voice, he intimated to the President, that it might be done by a majority. The prisoner will, therefore, be ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various
... had left his lips edged with a slight smile. Presently he leaned back beside Estridge and said in a low voice: ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers
... old chants wept out their pious melancholy. They were holding hands, the two little pagans, before the Great Friend, in the church all swathed in mourning. And both of them at the same time murmured in a low voice: ...
— Pierre and Luce • Romain Rolland
... did come home," said Tasso, at length, in a low voice; "angels must have shown him the road, poor beast! From Rome! Only to think of it, from Rome! And he a dumb thing! I tell you he is here, honestly: so will you not trust me just so far as this? Will you let me go with ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... in a low voice, "the little Messiah also traveleth far to-night. I owe to Him my sight and the happiness of us all. I would fain give unto Him a gift. I would that I might give unto Him my little Michmash, that He may be borne swiftly and surely on the long ...
— Christmas Light • Ethel Calvert Phillips
... into small pieces, and arranged them on the cloth. "Then I didn't mind your coming so much," she said, in a low voice. ...
— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs
... you off," she said in a low voice. "So I give you fair warning, Isobel, I must not be included in impromptu invitations of that kind. Next time I shall ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... of his voice the girl had paused in her steps, and exclaimed in a low voice, "Edmund!" and then, obeying his words, ...
— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty
... Joy in a low voice. "He'll spoil all our fun. We'll have to pretend we're clever or something of the sort." This was whispered in Bet's ear and brought forth ...
— The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure • Lizette M. Edholm
... he grew much worse. Lucy was busily occupied with nursing him and could give no time to the regrets which she had imagined would assail her. She spent long hours in her father's room; and while he dozed, half-comatose, the kindly parson sat by the window and read to her in a low voice from queer, ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham
... He spoke absently, in a low voice, as though talking to some person whom Tony could not see, and the boy was silent a minute ...
— Alone In London • Hesba Stretton
... Ivanitch," Lisa murmured in a low voice—when she did not agree with the person whom she was talking, she always dropped her voice; and now too she was deeply moved—"happiness on earth does not ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... poor old lady started up and stood pale and breathless. The door opened and Mr. Jonas came in, carrying Neddy in his arms. His face was softer in expression than I had ever seen it. He did not say a word until he came close up to Mrs. Oram, when, holding out the boy, he said, in a low voice that was broken and tender, "Be kind to the poor child, Mrs. Oram. I will see you about him in the morning," then merely adding, as he turned to leave, "We found him asleep in the woods," went ...
— Happy Days for Boys and Girls • Various
... looked in to announce it, and, seeing neither my lady nor the general, had in surprise retired. Silence prevailed—what could be the matter? So unusual for the general to be late. The general came in, hurried—very uncommon in him, and, after saying a few words in a low voice to Lady Davenant, who immediately went up stairs, he begged pardon, was very sorry he had kept dinner waiting, but Lady Cecilia had been taken ill—had fainted—she was better—he hoped it was nothing that would signify—she ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... but a short examination, and the sufferer's statement of his sensations, especially the gushing of blood within the breast, which was vividly felt, convinced him that there was indeed no hope. "Doctor, I am gone," he said to the Rev. Mr. Scott, the chaplain, who knelt beside him; and then added in a low voice, "I have to leave Lady Hamilton, and my adopted daughter Horatia, as a ...
— The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
... tell her so," Daisy answered, in a low voice. Another storm rising! Storms seemed to get up very easily ...
— Melbourne House • Elizabeth Wetherell
... through many pictured rooms and corridors until they reached the third room of the famous picture-gallery, where they took seats, and Mr. Sumner said, in a low voice:— ...
— Barbara's Heritage - Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters • Deristhe L. Hoyt
... big driver, in a low voice. "You must find your own way now. That last bit of tongue meant, ...
— Dead Man's Land - Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain • George Manville Fenn
... entered the room. She was rather a forward girl, and I suppose presumed on our acquaintance to communicate directly with myself instead of going to the housekeeper. Seeing her approach as if she wanted to speak to me, I went to meet her. She handed me a small ring, saying, in a low voice, ...
— Wilfrid Cumbermede • George MacDonald
... as if to take the paper. Burr, pretending not to see the gesture, began to read in a low voice, infusing into the verse more thought and sentiment than it contained. His perfect reading gave the commonplace stanzas aesthetic effect. The authoress confessed their merit to her ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... does this mean?" demanded Earle in a low voice of Dick. "Why are these two guys kowtowing to me in this fashion? Gee! They surely don't think that I'm some fancy god of theirs, come down from Olympus to visit them, as a special mark of ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood
... way," said the young man, in a low voice. "Manifest no distrust, or you may invite the danger ...
— The Last of the Mohicans • James Fenimore Cooper
... seen Peter seat himself in a Company of seven or eight Persons, whom he never saw before in his Life; and after having looked about to see there was no one that overheard him, has communicated to them in a low Voice, and under the Seal of Secrecy, the Death of a great Man in the Country, who was perhaps a Fox-hunting the very Moment this Account was [given [2]] of him. If upon your entring into a Coffee-house you see a Circle of Heads bending over the Table, ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
... Harcourt in a low voice, "you have seen the coin before, and now you may read what is written on ...
— The Unknown Quantity - A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales • Henry van Dyke
... directed the two doors of the Salle des Gardes, which were closed, to be opened. The Bed of justice was prepared in the grand ante- chamber, where the King was accustomed to eat. I stopped a short time to see if everything was in proper order, and felicitated Fontanieu in a low voice. He said to me in the same manner that he had arrived at the Tuileries with his workmen and materials at six o'clock in the morning; that everything was so well constructed and put up that the King had not heard a sound; that ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... Sharpe's speech was given for the benefit of Mrs. Oleander's greedy ears—the latter half, hurriedly and in a low voice, for his own. ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... and closed the door, which was partially open, and, drawing his chair near that of his visitor, conferred with him, in a low voice, for some twenty minutes. At the end of that time he dismissed him with a ...
— Tom, The Bootblack - or, The Road to Success • Horatio Alger
... I summoned up enough courage to speak. I crawled over the boxes as far as I could, and touched the coastguard. "Sh!" I said, in a low voice, "Don't make a sound. I've ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... for, by going near enough to give a warning in a low voice, and have that warning followed by a change in the discourse, we should be betraying ourselves, and might fall into serious danger. At the very moment the clergyman was thus speaking I saw the masked head of Streak o' Lightning appearing through ...
— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper
... explained, in his very good French, to Madame Poulain, that he came to inquire, on behalf of a young English lady, whether her husband, a gentleman named Dampier, had left any message for her. And Madame Poulain, coming across to him in a rather mysterious manner, had said in a low voice that she feared the young lady was toquee—i. e., not quite all right in her head—as, saving Monsieur le Senateur's presence, English ladies so often were! At great length she had gone on to explain that the young lady in question had arrived very ...
— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... promise case," he said at last, in a low voice. "I—I am threatened with a breach of promise case." Here, in desperate quest of inspiration, he made a clutch at his beard; his fingers closed upon the unfamiliar smoothness of a shaven chin; and with that, hope and courage (if such expressions could ever have been appropriate ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... in search of one; and while they were waiting for his return, the magistrate sat down beside his clerk and talked to him in a low voice. At last the locksmith appeared, with his bag of tools hanging over his shoulder, and set to work at once. He found his task a difficult one. His pick-locks would not catch, and he was talking of filing ...
— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau
... for the red pygmies, too," added Tom in a low voice. Then he gave his whole attention to the management of his new machine, which was rapidly mounting upward, with a speed rivalling that ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle • Victor Appleton
... shook hands with Mr. Benson; she was delighted to meet Mrs. Benson again, and gave her both her little hands; she almost embraced Irene, placed a hand on each shoulder, kissed her on the cheek, and said something in a low voice that brought the blood to the girl's face and suffused her eyes ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... said Fitz suddenly, speaking in a low voice, almost a whisper, "you had better say a word or two to Mr Butters about the work ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... in a low voice. "Tell them that M. de Mancini is not here, that the only occupant of the inn is your master, a gentleman from Normandy, or Picardy, or where you will. See that they do not guess our presence—the landlord fortunately is ignorant ...
— The Suitors of Yvonne • Raphael Sabatini
... too bad to disappoint Mr. Fenwick, now that we have made such a good start. He wants to make a long flight, and I can't blame him," spoke Tom, in a low voice. ...
— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton
... the very ones who knocked that man down in the city, and stole his money," he said in a low voice. "Now, they must not leave this island until the police take them away, and it's up to us to ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody
... the former days of their union—not even in Greece—had she pressed it with such tenderness, with such pulse-stirring intimacy and trust in him. Then, still with her eyes upon the minarets, she said in a low voice: ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... one to-morrow," said Michael in a low voice husky with feeling. It was the first time Sam had voluntarily mentioned Jim and he had seemed so loth to take Michael to see him in jail that Michael had ceased ...
— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill
... In a low voice the father continued. Jim missed some of the words at the beginning of the sentence. It ended with: " . . . but now they've all left, and I've managed to get up to you. You know what I've come for." There was ...
— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... a swoon, and that she was attired in long white garments such as Bertalda had worn on that day. He stepped close up to her, made a rustling with the branches, and let his sword clatter, but she moved not. "Bertalda!" he exclaimed, at first in a low voice, and then louder and louder—but still she heard not. At last, when he uttered the dear name with a more powerful effort, a hollow echo from the mountain-caverns of the valley indistinctly reverberated "Bertalda!" but still the sleeper woke not. He bent down ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various
... you! You see that life has claims upon us," she said in a low voice and with a bitter smile; then she asked what ...
— Fromont and Risler, Complete • Alphonse Daudet
... word with you, Bill," he ses, in a low voice. "In fact, I might go so far as to say I want to ask you to do ...
— Deep Waters, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... hush which should succeed a hearty meal made in the open air upon a summer's day was well established. Daphne and Adele were murmuring conversation: in a low voice Jill was addressing Berry and thinking of Piers: pipe in mouth, Jonah was blinking into a pair of field-glasses: and I was lying flat upon my back, neither smoking nor sleeping, but gradually losing consciousness with ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... they glanced ever over their shoulders, as if each shadow cloaked a menace, and listened, as it seemed, for some sound which they dreaded to hear. Smith strode up to the detective and showed him a card, upon glancing at which the Scotland Yard man said something in a low voice, and, nodding, touched his hat to Smith ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... Burke," soothed Betty in a low voice; "she'll soon realize that we're doing things in good old country style, and haven't brought any city ways with us to Durford. I ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott
... the squaw rubbed the sufferer's limbs with bear's grease, and so in a measure restored their suppleness, the latter said in a low voice, that was ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... not anxious about him," Mrs. Boyce said in a low voice to Marcella as they moved away. "He does not think the attack will return for a long while, and he has given me the means of stopping it if it does ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... have told you so many times, dearest?" I asked, in a low voice, as her head rested upon my shoulder and she stood in my embrace. "Need I tell you how fondly I love you—how that I am entirely yours? No. ...
— The Seven Secrets • William Le Queux
... this in a low voice, for Laura was weaving bay into a chaplet, and inattentive to ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang
... speaking, when the monk led the way from the room. Donna Florinda and the half-breathless Violetta followed; Don Camillo drew the arm of Annina under his own, and in a low voice bid her, at her peril, ...
— The Bravo • J. Fenimore Cooper
... he said, speaking in a low voice, "more so even than I imagined. Colonel Wragge's control over his thoughts concealed a great deal in my psychometrising of the letter. I looked in to warn you to keep yourself well ...
— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... at first knowing that they were being watched would not make the promise but when the woman insisted he promised in a low voice and then disappeared into the nala; and the witch went back to the ghat, filled her water pot and went home. The quail catcher also went trembling home and he remembered the day fixed for the death of the nephew of the witch and he decided to wait and see what happened before saying anything ...
— Folklore of the Santal Parganas • Cecil Henry Bompas
... coffin with the shock, and the carpenter woke up and looked out. He remembered the whole affair; he knew that he was dead and was going to be buried, and recognising the smith, he said to him, in a low voice, 'My good neighbour, if I hadn't been dead already, I should have laughed myself to death now to see you coming ...
— The Pink Fairy Book • Various
... to Mr. Bulbul, close in front of him, and then he said in a low voice, as though to himself, "Beau Madjam, fat Madjam, ...
— Tales of Folk and Fairies • Katharine Pyle
... ourselves at the outset, casting our eyes over the green valley, and then up the snowy mountains, sometimes exchanging a word with Franz, but oftener listening, as he talked in a low voice to Annette, of what she was to do ...
— Scenes in Switzerland • American Tract Society
... coming toward them with head erect, as though he might have owned the ship and himself; and Johnson, limping slightly, making for the crowd of blue-jackets at the gangway. With these he fraternized at once, telling them things in a low voice, and somewhat profanely, while the two mates at the fife-rail eyed him ...
— "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea • Morgan Robertson
... tears ran down the stubble of his cheek. The other face was younger, clean and sad With the manful stricken beauty of a lad Who had intended always to be glad. .... The touch of his compassion, like a mother's, Pitied the madman, soothed him and caressed. And then I heard him speak, In a low voice: "Mon frere, mon frere! Calme-toi! Right here's your place." And, opening his coat, he pressed Upon his heart the wanderer's face And smoothed the tangled hair. After a moment peaceful there, The maniac screamed—struck out and fell Across his brother's ...
— The New World • Witter Bynner
... fainting, allowed her head to fall back upon the pillow; and as Don Rafael, frightened at the effect of his communication, bent closer to the litera, he heard murmured in a low voice, the ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid
... said in a low voice. "How comes she to be English? Is she the girl they were talking about down below, ...
— The Castle Of The Shadows • Alice Muriel Williamson
... he remarked, in a low voice, for the door between the rooms was open a trifle. "There isn't enough stuff here to feed a canary bird, let alone two human beings. Why, whatever do they live on? They must be as poor as Job's turkey. I can't just place ...
— Fred Fenton on the Track - or, The Athletes of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... doubt," I assented in a low voice as before. "But it is a mere intellectual exercise. What I see is that in dealing with reality Mrs. Fyne ceases to be tolerant. In other words, that she can't forgive Miss de Barral for being a woman and behaving like a woman. ...
— Chance • Joseph Conrad
... standing at the opposite end. Here a few steps, raised round a pillar, led into a little chapel, containing several small altars, with statues of saints in the niches above them. On entering the chapel on the right I heard a whispering, as though some one near was speaking in a low voice. I turned towards the spot whence the sound proceeded, and saw before me a female form. No! I cannot describe to you the beauty of this form. My first feeling was one of awe, which, however, soon ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... of oblivion," he said, still in a low voice, and speaking with a delicate refinement that was almost mincing. "In the desert one forgets everything; even the little heart one loves, and the ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens
... that Caravan looks puffy," lisped in a low voice a young man, lounging on the edge of a buhl table that had once belonged to a Mortemart, and dangling a rich cane with affected indifference in order to conceal his anxiety from all, except ...
— Sybil - or the Two Nations • Benjamin Disraeli
... that this house is one of the most dangerous places in the world for you?" she cried in a low voice. "Why, Judge Harvey himself ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... grace and amiability. If it was a bad one, however, his eyes flashed, and he became so violent that it was thought prudent not to contradict him. It is related that Boileau, after yielding one day in a dispute, remarked in a low voice to a friend: "Hereafter I shall always be of the opinion of the ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason
... you should have come," he observed in a low voice, and threw himself on the couch ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... death!" said the Doctor, in a low voice and fervently. Then, after a pause full of emotion, "Your dispositions ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Aylward, a temperate person, absorbed a good deal of champagne. As a consequence the conversation grew animated, and under cover of it, while Sir Robert was arguing with his neighbour on the left, Barbara asked in a low voice: ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard
... hearts of the Prescotts were a great deal too full for them not to wish to be alone together; and after Magdalen had given her hand to Lord Rotherwood with a fervent, "You know what I would say, my lord—beyond all words," they turned homewards; but Mr. Flight ran after them to say in a low voice, "Can we meet to-morrow at eight for a service of thanksgiving?" And ...
— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... "I do," admitted Jerry in a low voice, as a customer entered the store. He took the bag of cough drops and darted out through the door, but not too quickly to overhear Mr. Barton saying to the man who ...
— The Circus Comes to Town • Lebbeus Mitchell
... remarkably good-looking young man," said a girl in a low voice, as she made way for ...
— Gambara • Honore de Balzac
... to the floor and tossed overcoat and umbrella on his bed. "I've given you fair warning, Tim," he said in a low voice. "I don't want to hurt you, but you'd better ...
— Left Guard Gilbert • Ralph Henry Barbour
... sitting, one at one side of her bed and one at the other. She had fallen into a light slumber. As they were looking at her, the same thought came into both their minds at the same moment. Old Sophy spoke for both, as she said, in a low voice, ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... a rum go, Howie!" he observed in a low voice to his corporal. "A long, beautiful gallery, five by four, lined with wood, electrically lighted, with every modern convenience—and ...
— All In It K(1) Carries On - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand • John Hay Beith (AKA: Ian Hay)
... if our own walls might have ears and said in a low voice: "She was the operator who took down the detectaphone conversations at the other end of the wire in a furnished room in the house ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve
... and labour in learning from Alcuin, and that not only in religion, but "in rhetoric and dialectic and especially astronomy"; and he "carefully reformed the manner of reading and singing; for he was thoroughly instructed in both, though he never read publicly himself, nor sang except in a low voice, and with the ...
— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton
... He hesitated the space of a second. The idea of bolting without a word presented itself to his mind. No use! An inexplicable repugnance to pronounce the name by which he was known kept him silent a little longer. At last he said in a low voice— ...
— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad
... worse," he said in a low voice. "The excitement of the fire has aggravated his ailment. I would like another ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton
... talked in a low voice. What they said Bunny and Sue could not hear, but soon the ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony • Laura Lee Hope
... I am sure of it. I cannot wait until I return. Come with me to Melbourne—now, at once. We shall be married there," he said, in a low voice. ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... and the two females placed themselves on the ground about the tray. The man gave thanks, and himself and his wife appeared to be about to eat, when the latter suddenly placed her hand upon his arm, and said something to him in a low voice, whereupon he exclaimed, 'Ay, truly, we were both forgetful'; and then getting up, he came towards me, who stood a little way off, leaning against the wheel of my cart; and, taking me by the hand, he said, 'Pardon us, young man, we were both so ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... quietly and stood for a moment unwilling to interrupt, then in a low voice touched with that affectionate note which men are not ashamed to show even to other men in the Latin countries, ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... reply and merely made a sign with his hand. The policeman entered. When he had come near, Felix said to him in a low voice that he had something very serious to tell him. But first of all he insisted that Bernardo go and bring ...
— Brazilian Tales • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
... the desk, tore them across, and laid them on the burning coals. They smoldered for a moment, then blazed up, and the draught from the open window whisked the blackened ashes up the chimney. David stood, meanwhile, with his arms folded, smiling to himself, and repeating, in a low voice: ...
— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne
... afternoons of the harem, passed upon the divan or stretched on the floor. In a low voice she would croon Oriental songs, incomprehensible and mysterious. Suddenly she would spring up impetuously like a spring that is unwound, like a serpent that uncoils itself, and would begin to dance, almost without moving her feet, waving her lithe limbs.... And he would smile with stupefied ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... cut from the wood the Emperor made into marshals," said Du Bruel, in a low voice, looking cautiously about him; "and he mustn't give up his profession. Let him serve in the ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
... "Daughter," he said in a low voice, "what word? Before you answer remember that if I refuse to send you, now for the first time I ...
— The Virgin of the Sun • H. R. Haggard
... showed another kind of feeling to an extent which dismayed me. I may have revealed something similar; but I struggled hard against all emotion, and as soon as I could I told him she had come. He simply said 'Yes' in a low voice. ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy
... youth in a low voice with a sort of suppressed exultation. Evasio Mon, watching him from the doorway, smiled faintly. He seemed to have no misgivings as to what Leon ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman
... in a low voice]. Now don't worry about me, Beermann. I will know how to protect your interests. The law gives me the right to remain ...
— Moral • Ludwig Thoma
... with emotion, and I paused fixing my earnest eyes on my father, after I had dashed away the intrusive tears that dimmed them. He did not raise his, but after a short silence he replied to me in a low voice: "You are indeed presumptuous, Mathilda, presumptuous and very rash. In the heart of one like me there are secret thoughts working, and secret tortures which you ought not to seek to discover. I cannot tell you how it adds to my grief to know that I am the cause of uneasiness ...
— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
... to indicate what I mean, but they would be no more than indications, because the doubt itself was doubtful. I remember going to a great Liberal club, and walking about in a large crowded room, somewhere at the end of which a bald gentleman with a beard was reading something from a manuscript in a low voice. It was hardly unreasonable that we did not listen to him, because we could not in any case have heard; but I think a very large number of us did not even see him . . . it is possible, though not certain, that one or other of us asked carelessly what was supposed to ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward
... to do it," she answered, in a low voice that thrilled him strangely. "Mr. Trafford, will you be angry with me if I speak to you very frankly, and earnestly—as earnestly," here she paused, "as though we were bidding each other good-bye, to-night, ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... seem very nice, and we can easily find out if other girls are to race," said Aunt Kate, in a low voice. ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake • Laura Lee Hope
... not so sure of that," saith Helen, in a low voice: and methought she had guessed at some other, but would not say out [Note 1]. "I think we were better to ...
— Joyce Morrell's Harvest - The Annals of Selwick Hall • Emily Sarah Holt
... happiness to both that they were loath to end it, so they lingered behind the rest, and tried, as lovers do, to stop time by love. They were sitting now on one of the fallen blocks of stone of the many scattered about, he talking to her in a low voice, "I love you, I love you," the burden of his theme; she for the most part listening to words which made the sweetest music discord, but sometimes responding as a tender fainter echo. He did not see the eyes ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various
... Hargreaves snatched up a phone, punched out a combination, and began talking rapidly into it in a low voice. After awhile, he hung up. "All right, Mr. Pearson—Colonel Pearson, I mean. Have your space-buggy sent around to the shipyard. My boys'll fix it up." He made a note on another piece of paper. "If we live through this, I'm going to have a couple of supra-atmosphere ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper
... stair which ascended immediately from the kitchen, whispering to her on the way, that the man was the worse of drink, and he must not quarrel with him. She retired without leave-taking. He then called Cosmo and Agnes, who were talking together in a low voice at the other end of the kitchen, and taking them to Grizzie in the spare room, told them to help her, that she might the sooner come and get the ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... is well," said Mrs. Hart, in a low voice. "I don't know why you were sent for, but there is nothing bad. I think your father sent for you to see an old ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... them point-blank, and the bullet whistled between them. "Leave me. Give me my sabre," said Rickerl, in a low voice. ...
— Lorraine - A romance • Robert W. Chambers
... see the loikes av that?" she said in a low voice. "She'd draw the badgers out av their holes with thim songs av hers. And thim little divils have been all the mornin' a-fightin' and a-scrappin' ...
— The Prospector - A Tale of the Crow's Nest Pass • Ralph Connor
... other's eyes went far beyond the faltering words they spoke. She asked him in a low voice, "Couldn't you do more for me than for yourself? One never knows, but . . . what else is love for, but to give greater strength than ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... What pretty flowers! [As they reach the house she says in a low voice] Give me those flowers! ...
— The Sea-Gull • Anton Checkov
... the supercargo in a low voice. "None." Then he urged her to go below, as it was not safe for her to remain on deck. She went at once, and met her husband just as he was ...
— By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories • Louis Becke
... Godfrey quickly, in a low voice, "They ought to be here! Down Tartlet, get down! Be ready to fire, but don't do so ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne
... know," Harry stated in a low voice. "I guess that was pretty nearly three good turns, ...
— Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson
... wish success for it, success is bound to come!" he answered in a low voice—"I believe in ...
— The Treasure of Heaven - A Romance of Riches • Marie Corelli
... the side of the closed barrier, on the doorstep of her hut, with the light shining upon her, sat the wife of the gatekeeper, a child in her arms. She was a young woman, fair and pale. She seemed somewhat uneasy, and yet had no idea of quitting her post. She was talking in a low voice to the engine driver and stoker of our train. I tried to get some information from her. "Mon Dieu, monsieur," she said, "I know nothing, except that the guns have been firing all day long since yesterday, and even at times during ...
— In the Field (1914-1915) - The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry • Marcel Dupont
... in the big vase," I said, in a low voice, as she seemed to hesitate about going on with ...
— Vicky Van • Carolyn Wells
... said in a low voice. "I will stay here." She was shaking still; she held herself with both her hands, and shook ...
— The Spanish Jade • Maurice Hewlett
... "Yes," said Uxmoor, in a low voice, "very bad. My oldest, truest, dearest friend has been seized with small-pox, and his life is in danger. He has asked for me, poor fellow. This is from his sister. I must start by the twelve ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... in a low voice. "A fair man, that's sure to be Paul. One, two, three, money to the house. One, two, three, troubles and vexations. One, two, three, the nine of spades; ah, dear! more hardships and misery,—always that wretched card turning up with its ...
— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau |
