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Sentences starting with softly

Softly and calmly we refused to sacrifice, thanked the imperial official, who warned us kindly, and in the same hour and place we fell into the hands of the torturers. [10]
Softly turning the handle of the big wooden doors which faced him, he opened them an inch or so, and listened. [11]
Softly she stirred from the chair where she had sat before the piano, and opened the door of the outer office. [9]

Sentences ending with softly

She spoke no word, but gently undid the other's hair, and smoothed and brushed it softly. [11]
He would have wished it," she said softly. [9]
I knew where was the window of the barber's bedroom, and I tapped upon it softly. [11]
Ere the moon was high in the heavens, while they were all sleeping, with the exception of Kaschta and Pentaur, the soldier rose softly. [10]
But in his waistband there was what none of these Indians had ever seen--a small revolver that barked ever so softly. [11]
Presently he got up, came over, and stroked the skins softly. [11]
They moved forward to the regiment, and the word to dismount was given softly. [11]
Then she went to the little piano in the corner where stood the statue of Andromeda, and began to play softly. [11]
He went quietly to the door, opened it, looked out, and closed it softly. [9]
She felt as though she were suffocating, and she opened the window a little very softly. [11]

Short sentences using softly

How softly she tread! [9]
Virginia was crying softly. [9]
The door opened softly. [4]
Let us speak softly. [12]
She sobbed deeply, softly. [11]
He entered the room softly. [2]
Is anybody trying it softly? [6]
She stepped softly forwards. [11]
The alley door closed softly. [5]
She laughed softly and merrily. [11]

Sentences containing softly two or more times

When they were out of sight the sound of the bell came softly, softly up the road, while the bell in the church tower still called to prayer. [11]
Dicky did not lower his pistol as the Orderly, obeying, softly went as he had softly come. [11]
He has been failing very fast since you saw him yesterday, and now--" They had been walking softly and talking softly down the aisle between the long rows of beds. [8]

More example sentences with the word softly in them

I am sorry you disbelieve it, Madam,--I said, and added softly to my next neighbor,--but you prove it. [6]
I was so won by it that I came softly over to it. [11]
He did this with the utmost consideration, fearing the effect of this agitating news upon his wife; but Barbara only turned pale, and then, with tears glittering in her eyes, said softly, "He, too, was only a mortal man. [10]
She turned quickly, with the pageant of her dreams still wavering in her face; smiled at him distantly, looked towards the window again in a troubled way, then stepped softly and swiftly to the door, and passed out. [11]
Having sat awhile with her visitors without understanding anything of what they were saying, she softly left the room and went to the nursery. [2]
Gervais laughed softly with a hissing chuckle, and Speranski in a high-pitched staccato manner. [2]
There are those who denounce us openly to their friends, and yet whisper to us softly that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object. [7]
That wondrous hymn which Judge Whipple loved, which for years has been the comfort of those in distress, floated softly with the night air out of the open window. [9]
But one day when the meagre village chemist saw him cracking jokes with Beard, the carpenter, and sidled in with a silly air of equality, which was merely insolence, Gaston softly dismissed him, with his ears tingling. [11]
Poor old Hannah wetted the parched lips and softly stroked the hot brow, murmuring endearing and pitying words, and thanking the Father of all that the mother was happy and did not know. [5]
The sailors' songs were hushed, and the psalms of the virgin sisters, imploring the protection of the Almighty, seemed to float round the gliding boat as softly as the light of the circling moon. [10]
At first he wept softly, for he now clearly realized, for the first time, that he had lost his father and should never see Ruth, the doctor, nor the doctor's dumb wife Elizabeth again. [10]
People came and went softly, and he gave no heed. [11]
In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
Looking intently that way one night, he plainly distinguished an eye gleaming and glistening at the keyhole; and having now no doubt that his suspicions were correct, he stole softly to the door, and pounced upon her before she was aware of his approach. [12]
He wrung the water out of his clothes, and ran softly up the shore. [11]
The dwarf after watching their retreating shadows with a wider grin than his face had yet displayed, stole softly in the dark to bed. [12]
Now her hand was upon the bellows, and the low, white fire seethed hungrily up, and set its teeth upon the iron she held; now it turned the iron about upon the anvil, and the sparks showered about her very softly and strangely. [11]
A trained nurse was softly closing the door of the bedroom on the right. [9]
Presently a window was softly closed. [6]
But Pretty Pierre was singing softly to himself in the room at Pardon's Drive: "Three good friends with the wine at night Vive la compagnie! [11]
Cousin Maud, who was ever wont to mount the stair with an echoing tread and a loud voice, now went about stepping softly in her shoes, and when she called or spoke it was gently and scarce to be heard. [10]
A wooden trough was disclosed hanging under a ledge of rock, and water dripped into it softly, slowly. [11]
Presently when he was asleep she came softly in with a hammer and drove a hideous tent-pen down through his brain! [5]
Knocking softly she was admitted by Nic. [11]
Yet her deep voice had gained a new, strange tone as, at first rapidly and softly, then in louder and firmer accents, she continued: "So I attained my eighteenth year and was no longer satisfied to dwell in Succoth. [10]
It was that very night, too, I sat with Cowan, who had duty in one of the sentry boxes, and we heard a voice calling softly under us. [9]
Now, please, let us change the subject finally; and"--here she softly laughed--"forgive me if I have treated your fancied infatuation lightly or indifferently. [11]
The rain beat upon the panes, and then she knew that she was crying softly to herself. [9]
A delicacy came upon him, and more and more he withdrew himself to his organ, and to those lofty and lonely places where he could see--and hear--the Golden Pipes boom softly over the valley. [11]
She crept softly up the stone steps. [11]
When drooping pleasure turns to grief, And trembling faith is changed to fear, The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf Shall softly tell us, Thou art near! [6]
He moved softly towards the open window from which the sound seemed to proceed. [6]
My lips softly touched the red lips on the canvas; and, as I was all the happier, I fancied that my mother in Heaven must be glad too. [10]
He nodded softly to the waving trees far down in the valley, for his thoughts had drifted on to his wife as he first saw her. [11]
Presently I drew to the trap-door of my loft, and, raising it gently, came down the ladder to the little hallway, and softly opened the door of the room where Labrouk's body lay. [11]
He went softly to the door and listened. [11]
On the way to see Selene she could shed no tears, but she could not help softly moaning to herself now and then. [10]
My eyes seemed to search for it also, and to find it in the torch which stuck out, softly sputtering, from the wall. [11]
Mr. Griller continued to purr, as softly as before. [5]
They carried her to one old nook, where she had many and many a time sat musing, and laid their burden softly on the pavement. [12]
The stream began to murmur by the door, and the fragrance of growing herbs and flowers came softly on the vernal breeze. [5]
Colonel Carvel began to hum softly to himself:-- "'One said it was an owl, and the other he said nay, One said it was a church with the steeple torn away, Look a' there now! [9]
Then he crept to his place by the fire, sat himself down, and began to whet the knife softly on the stone, still muttering, mumbling, ejaculating. [5]
Wonta came up to him softly, patted him on the head, and said: "Like Macavoy there is nobody. [11]
Then, coming close to him she said softly, slowly: "I must go with you if you go, because you must be with me when--oh, hai-yai, my chief, shall we go from here? [11]
She kept talking to him and calling softly, making a coaxing, animal-like sound, as she always did with her lions. [11]
My object was to cross the river softly, skirt the Levis shore, pass the Isle of Orleans, and so steal down the river. [11]
There she brooded till she heard the voice of her mother calling across the meadow; then she got up with a sigh, and softly repeated Parpon's words: "He is a great man! [11]
In two or three weeks we shall work the stiffness out of her joints and have her performing as smoothly and softly as human muscles, and then we shall speak out the big secret and let the world come and gaze. [5]
Hendon, always alert, thought he would like to know why the officer followed the woman out; so he slipped softly into the dusky hall and listened. [5]
She talked of this place, recalled the hours spent here, spoke even softly of Leicester. [11]
And you see, they're so poor, and old, and friendless, and--' But I was ashamed by that time, and shut him off, and somehow felt a new courage in me, and so I said, softly, 'We'll keep them--the Lord will provide. [5]
As soon as they had left the room the young man spoke softly but urgently into his father's ear: "You are quite right, Father," he said. [10]
As she listened there was a footstep at the door of the tent, a voice called to her softly, and a hand drew aside the tent curtain. [11]
He gazed at them, changing them from one hand to the other, till suddenly his heart overflowed, and without heeding Frau Geel, who was watching him, he wept softly, exclaiming: "Mother, dear mother! [10]
Then one of them took me to one side and said: "Now look here, Johnny, it's no use you playing softly wid us. [5]
The soft light, the warmth, the exotic odour of the plants, the well-dressed people who trod softly the strip of carpet set on the marble with the air of being at home--all contributed to an excitement, intense yet benumbing. [9]
No one in the valley had ever heard the thing he sang softly as he sat looking down at Julie: "The little white smoke blows there, blows here, The little blue wolf comes down-- C'est la! [11]
She lay in the state between sleeping and waking, looking so long at his motionless figure that at length she almost feared he had died as he sat there; and softly rising and drawing close to him, ventured to whisper in his ear. [12]
The peace of the stars crept softly into Rudyard's heart as he galloped gently on to overtake his men. [11]
Presently I heard the spinet playing softly, and the words of that air came out of my heart from long ago. [9]
All at once the shadowy figure swung itself up softly and remained for an instant, half-kneeling, in the body of the wagon. [11]
The door of the room opened, and Goatry stepped inside softly. [11]
I fidgeted about the room nervously, and presently went to the window and softly raised it--drawn by that dread fascination which the terrible and the awful exert--and looked down upon the court-yard. [5]
At certain hours the ringing of the monastery bells blends solemnly and softly with the silence. [10]
Dimmler had finished the piece but still sat softly running his fingers over the strings, evidently uncertain whether to stop or to play something else. [2]
He gathered up the papers and with a bow to both, stepped softly over the carpet and went out into the waiting room. [2]
So I slid the panel softly, and put my eyes to the tapestry. [11]
Deep silence pervaded the lofty hall hung with bright-hued carpets, and softly lighted by three lamps with rose-colored globes. [10]
As she spoke, the little silver hammer softly struck. [11]
He softly drew-to the little curtain of the cabin window, leaving only one small space through which the moonlight streamed. [11]
The taste of the liquid brought back the afternoon of the day before, and he suddenly stopped drinking, threw back his head, and laughed softly. [11]
Starling softly caught the latch, and glanced up. [9]
The priest took the instrument and tuned it softly. [11]
The idea of the Indians is to drop softly and secretly from the arched sapling to the dwelling as the ark creeps along under it at the rate of a mile an hour, and butcher the family. [5]
The Butcher took the first manuscript that came to hand, read a stanza here and there, turned over the leaves, turned back and tried again,--shook his head--held it for an instant over the basket, as if doubtful,--and let it softly drop. [6]
Presently, after feeling the edge himself, he bent over the stone again, and she went on turning the wheel still singing softly. [11]
As he closed the door softly, killing entered his mind and stayed there. [11]
He went to the door of the Fort, opened it, entered, shut it, locked it softly, and put the key in his pocket. [11]
Natasha softly closed the door and went with Sonya to the window, not yet understanding what the latter was telling her. [2]
Then she opened the door again--the side-door leading into the street-closed it softly, and was gone. [11]
All at once the bedroom door opened softly, and Helene was standing there, looking at me. [9]
On waking up that morning Count Ilya Rostov left his bedroom softly, so as not to wake the countess who had fallen asleep only toward morning, and came out to the porch in his lilac silk dressing gown. [2]
I had dreamed that I was riding out in the Lorenzer-wald with Hans and my grand-uncle and other some; but we went slowly and softly, by reason that all our horses fell lame. [10]
He was sure that he was led softly away from the place, and that it was Elsie who had led him. [6]
I am assured that every time a man finds himself blooming into fame, they just softly snake him down and relegate him to a wholesome obscurity. [5]
And if I talk ever so softly, every word vibrates through my brain. [10]
The meadows were sweet with the newly cut grass, the wind softly blew down the river, large white clouds sailed high overhead and cast shadows on the changing water; but to all these gentle influences the fish were insensible, and sulked in their cool retreats. [4]
After he has stormed and raged till he hopes and imagines he has got us a little scared he wishes to softly whisper in our ears, "If you'll quit I will. [7]
But as he stooped over the cradle, no longer hesitating, the door softly opened, and Pierre entered. [11]
In bewilderment, she stood still an instant, then, with a sudden impulse, she ran to the kitchen-door and tried it softly. [11]
With the music still creeping in unutterable melancholy through the room, she had fled, closing the door behind her very softly as though not to disturb the sleeper. [11]
She turned, and, stepping softly into the salon, seated herself near the immense chimney, in a heavily carved chair, her feet lost in rich furs on the polished floor. [11]
He made a step towards the door, but it suddenly closed softly. [11]
The chief procession started with the lighting of the bonfires: Singing softly, choristers and acolytes in robes preceded the devout Cure, and pious believers and youths on horseback, with ribbons flying, carried banners and shrines. [11]
Two large tears sprang to her eyes; their light was fast growing dim; she murmured Cambyses' name softly, fell back in Atossa's arms, and died. [10]
He struck the sponge smartly on ma couzaine's muzzle, cleansing it--he would have to slide into the water like a rat and swim very softly to the shore. [11]
Sometimes a sunlit sphere comes rolling by, And then we softly whisper,--can it be? [6]
It seems a sort of sacrilege to disturb the glamour of old romance that pictures her to us softly from afar off as through a tinted mist, and curtains her ruin and her desolation from our view. [5]

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