Softly
in sentence
218 examples of Softly in a sentence
She rose from her seat, and stealing
softly
to a chest of drawers in the room of the sick man, she took from it a large Bible, heavily bound, and secured with strong clasps of brass, with which she returned to the negro.
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he ventured to steal
softly
to the bed of his obstinate comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath, sworn by the trooper in a dream, startled the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always slept with one eye open."
"Softly, my good friend, softly," said the youth, falling back on his pillow, and losing some of that color which alarmed his companion.
"Let us return immediately, and take him; to-morrow you shall have him hanged, Jack, - and, damn him, I'll dissect him!""Softly, softly, my dear Archibald.
"Fairly and softly, aye, and prudently, Mrs. Flanagan; it's not rashness that makes the good officer.
"Softly, good madam," said Lawton; "for although Roanoke never falls before, he sometimes rises behind.
"Softly, softly, gentlemen," returned the colonel.
"Softly, softly, Captain Wharton," said the peddler, dryly, "you've once been in the midst of three hundred of them, but there was a man who could take you out; see you not yon dark body, on the side of the opposite hill, just above the cornstalks?
"Softly, softly; handle me tenderly," replied the lieutenant.
Becky hesitating, Tom took silence for consent, and passed his arm about her waist and whispered the tale ever so softly, with his mouth close to her ear.
Tom went to the door and began to
softly
lift the latch; then he pressed gently and the door yielded a crack; he continued pushing cautiously, and quaking every time it creaked, till he judged he might squeeze through on his knees; so he put his head through and began, warily.
A groan escaped from poor Potter, and he put his face in his hands and rocked his body
softly
to and fro, while a painful silence reigned in the courtroom.
They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat.
At last Tom rose slowly and softly, and started alone.
The alley door closed
softly.
A long time after this--they could not tell how long--Tom said they must go
softly
and listen for dripping water--they must find a spring.
I waited a weary while until the coughing and tossing had died away, and there was no sound of wakefulness from the long line of wooden cots; then I very
softly
rose, slipped on my clothes, took my shoes in my hand, and walked tiptoe to the window.
His sisters would return
softly
to him, 'Hush, brother, she will hear you; she is but in the next room.'
As he was going, he stopped a while, and speaks mighty earnestly to me about his business, and finds an opportunity to say very
softly
to me, 'Come away, my dear, as soon as ever you can.'I said nothing, but made a curtsy, as if I had done so to what he said in public.
My mother was frighted to the last degree at the very thoughts of it; but I bid her be easy, told her I would do it gradually and softly, and with all the art and good-humour I was mistress of, and time it also as well as I could, taking him in good-humour too.
But while these thoughts ran round in my head, which was the work but of a few moments, I observed my landlord took him aside and whispered to him, though not very
softly
neither, for so much I overheard: 'Sir, if you shall have occasion----' the rest I could not hear, but it seems it was to this purpose: 'Sir, if you shall have occasion for a minister, I have a friend a little way off that will serve you, and be as private as you please.'
I took a gold watch, with a silk purse of gold, his fine full-bottom periwig and silver-fringed gloves, his sword and fine snuff-box, and gently opening the coach door, stood ready to jump out while the coach was going on; but the coach stopped in the narrow street beyond Temple Bar to let another coach pass, I got
softly
out, fastened the door again, and gave my gentleman and the coach the slip both together, and never heard more of them.
But this he spoke softly, that nobody could hear.
At night, Therese, appeased and silent, stitched beside her aunt, with a countenance that seemed to be dozing in the gleam that
softly
glided from beneath the lamp shade.
"Sir," answered Don Quixote, "that cannot be on any account omitted, and the knight-errant would be disgraced who acted otherwise: for it is usual and customary in knight-errantry that the knight-errant, who on engaging in any great feat of arms has his lady before him, should turn his eyes towards her
softly
and lovingly, as though with them entreating her to favour and protect him in the hazardous venture he is about to undertake, and even though no one hear him, he is bound to say certain words between his teeth, commending himself to her with all his heart, and of this we have innumerable instances in the histories.
"It will not be to the detriment or prejudice of any of them, my worthy lord," said the afflicted damsel; and here Sancho Panza drew close to his master's ear and said to him very softly, "Your worship may very safely grant the boon she asks; it's nothing at all; only to kill a big giant; and she who asks it is the exalted Princess Micomicona, queen of the great kingdom of Micomicon of Ethiopia."
"I can remedy that entirely," said he of the Grove, "and in this way: before we begin the battle, I will come up to your worship fair and softly, and give you three or four buffets, with which I shall stretch you at my feet and rouse your anger, though it were sleeping sounder than a dormouse."
without saying anything to anybody, not even to my master,
softly
and quietly I got down from Clavileno and amused myself with the goats—which are like violets, like flowers—for nigh three-quarters of an hour; and Clavileno never stirred or moved from one spot."
"That is not the point, Emerencia," replied Altisidora, "it is that I would not that my singing should lay bare my heart, and that I should be thought a light and wanton maiden by those who know not the mighty power of love; but come what may; better a blush on the cheeks than a sore in the heart;" and here a harp
softly
touched made itself heard.
Between the fingers of her left hand she held a short lighted candle, while with her right she shaded it to keep the light from her eyes, which were covered by spectacles of great size, and she advanced with noiseless steps, treading very
softly.
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