Softly
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218 examples of Softly in a sentence
The coverlet had slipped down, and she was breathing so
softly
that her respiration did not even lift her already well-developed bosom.
"That horrible wind must have prevented her from closing her eyes," said the mother
softly.
The lady and gentleman were silent,
softly
stretched out, and gradually wearied and disquieted by the exhibition of this wretchedness.
While he was tickling her neck with his moustache so
softly
that she closed her eyes, the shadow of another man, of the lad she had seen that morning, passed over the darkness of her closed eyelids.
The latter, who was
softly
scratching Poland's head, blew out a puff of smoke and muttered, with his tranquil air:"More foolery!"
And she began to cry
softly.
He interrupted himself, surprised to hear Alzire, who was laughing
softly
in the delirium of her fever.
It never came, so they went on kissing each other softly, with no idea of anything else, putting into that caress the passion they had long struggled against--the whole of their martyred and tender natures.
In vain Bataille, the doyen of the mine, would rub him with his ribs in his friendly way,
softly
biting his neck to impart to him a little of the resignation gained in his ten years beneath the earth.
At last the porters rang meat; he lifted his neck to see it go up, at first softly, then at once lost in the darkness, flown up for ever to the top of that black hole.
His eyes lifted and his face was very pale; he said
softly
to his companion:"Did I ever tell you how she died?""Whom do you mean?""My woman, over there, in Russia."
Then they
softly
closed the door and went away.
Well, quite softly, one day following another, a spring on a winter, and an autumn after a summer, this wore away, piece by piece, crumb by crumb; it passed away, it is gone, I should say it has sunk; for something always remains at the bottom as one would say—a weight here, at one's heart.
Don't I know all about it?" said old Rouault, laughing
softly.
Living thus, without every leaving the warm atmosphere of the classrooms, and amid these pale-faced women wearing rosaries with brass crosses, she was
softly
lulled by the mystic languor exhaled in the perfumes of the altar, the freshness of the holy water, and the lights of the tapers.
In the avenue a green light dimmed by the leaves lit up the short moss that crackled
softly
beneath her feet.
When from afar he saw her languid walk, and her figure without stays turning
softly
on her hips; when opposite one another he looked at her at his ease, while she took tired poses in her armchair, then his happiness knew no bounds; he got up, embraced her, passed his hands over her face, called her little mamma, wanted to make her dance, and half-laughing, half-crying, uttered all kinds of caressing pleasantries that came into his head.
She took it up in the wrapping that enveloped it and began singing
softly
as she rocked herself to and fro.
They remained alone—Madame Bovary, her back turned, her face pressed against a window-pane; Leon held his cap in his hand, knocking it
softly
against his thigh.
Then she poured some vinegar on her cambric handkerchief; she moistened his temples with little dabs, and then blew upon them
softly.
Monsieur Derozerays from time to time
softly
closed his eyelids, and farther on the chemist, with his son Napoleon between his knees, put his hand behind his ear in order not to lose a syllable.
It was the first time that Emma had heard such words spoken to herself, and her pride, like one who reposes bathed in warmth, expanded
softly
and fully at this glowing language.
The yellow curtains along the windows let a heavy, whitish light enter
softly.
"And who doesn't want for women, either,
" softly
added the sailor, thinking he was paying the stranger a compliment.
The druggist, at his wit's end, began
softly
to draw aside the small window-curtain.
The dogs barked, and rushed towards him; but he whistled softly, and they came and fawned upon him.
He placed his ladder against the wall by the side of the window and tapped himself on the shutter,
softly
at first then more loudly.
Probably Julien had forgotten to tread
softly.
We came downstairs one at a time, walking softly, and keeping the shady side.
how from your whispering leaves there
softly
fall the voices of long ago!
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