"Very softly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wonderful thing for a Genie; he actually sat down beside the little boy to talk to him. I don't recollect that a single Genie in the Arabian Nights, ever did such a thing before; but this Genie did: What is more, he stroked his beard, and spoke very softly, as follows: ...
— The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales • Mrs. Alfred Gatty
... goddess was on the ground floor, but as I had put on my soft slippers, and walked very softly, my footsteps did not make ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... slippers, all toe and sole, and opening the communicating door, peered into the library. It was empty, but her father's tarpaulins, in a heap on the floor, just outside his stateroom door, showed he was within, so she moved very softly across to the ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... or two of blossom still clinging to it, fell upon the old yellow page. Then I suppose I must have fallen into a dream, though it seemed to me that both my eyes and my ears were wide open, for I suddenly became aware of a beautiful young voice singing very softly somewhere among the leaves. The singing was very frail, almost imperceptible, as though it came out of the air. It came and went fitfully, like the elusive fragrance of sweetbrier—as though a girl was walking to and fro, dreamily humming to herself in the still ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... the first time I had called her mother, and I did so from a feeling of tenderness, for she seemed to me at the time certainly to be dying; but she misunderstood my meaning, for she looked at me with pleased surprise, and then laughed very softly as she glanced at Eve. I perceived, however, from the innocent look of inquiry returned by the latter, that she did not ...
— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne
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