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Softly

adverb

With low volume. Synonym: quietly. "She spoke quietly to the child" , "The radio was playing softly"

In a manner that is pleasing to the senses.

With little weight or force. Synonyms: gently, lightly.

Used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly. Synonym: piano.

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"Softly" Quotes from Famous Books

... had been walking nearly the whole day, and now the sun was low in the west, and long level rays of yellow light were spreading over the country, striking the windows of a farmhouse here and there into sudden flame, or resting more softly on tree-tops and hanging slopes. They were like fiddle-bows, Marie thought; and at the thought she held closer something that she carried in her arms, and murmured over it a little, as a mother coos over her baby. It seemed a long time ...

— Marie • Laura E. Richards

... did not dare to lift the form, or even beyond gently raising the head, to move it in any way. How anxiously all watched as, when the water arrived, he softly sponged the brow and held the glass to ...

— A Dog with a Bad Name • Talbot Baines Reed

... eighty years, and must have recalled the many stirring scenes in which he had taken part, as well as the faces of the brave fellows, like himself, who had gone from earth long ago, leaving him alone. Then the old veteran, still erect and with the fires of patriotism glowing in his brave heart, softly murmured: ...

— Dewey and Other Naval Commanders • Edward S. Ellis

... no answer. The dressing-case once more was closed, and his hand pressed upon the lid. The porter turned the light upon his face and whistled softly. ...

— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... room Denison's eyes wandered to the placid beauty of the scene without, where the plumes of the coco-palms overhanging the swift waters of the tiny stream scarce stirred to the light air that blew softly up the valley from the sea, and when they did move narrow shafts of light from the now high-mounted sun would glint and shine through upon the pale green foliage of the scrub beneath. Then once again ...

— "Old Mary" - 1901 • Louis Becke

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