"Very softly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the shaft the boys, who were walking very softly in their stockinged feet, heard a rattle as of a moving stone or piece of coal in the passage, and at once drew ...
— Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns • Major Archibald Lee Fletcher
... down the passage like a shadow, walking as if I were treading on eggs. Very softly I tried the door. To my disgust it was locked. Now the only time Bryce ever locked it was when he was at work inside, so I knew that my man was still within reach. As if to make assurance doubly sure I caught, as I stepped back, the faint gleam of a pencil ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh
... "Don't you?" Very softly Laura repeated, "'Love is the joy of service so deep that self is forgotten.' And isn't the home the place above all others where Camp Fire Girls should ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston
... would,' said the old lady, very softly, more as if she were speaking to herself than to him. ...
— The Dictator • Justin McCarthy
... said then, very softly, a little breathlessly. "And I'm a woman. I'm blind—but I'm a woman. I've been wondering how long it would take you ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair
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