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Updated: June 28, 2025
Barton's secretary was a beautiful, gentle, large-eyed girl ... wholly feminine ... soft-voiced ... as a reaction from the nagging of his wife, from her blatancy and utter lack of sympathy with any of his projects, he insensibly drifted into a relationship closer and closer, with this girl ... they used to take long walks into the pines together ... and be observed coming back slowly out of the sunset ... hand in hand ... to drop each other's hands, when they considered that the observing line of vision had been reached.
"Look here, the man's sick," I said to Newman. "Don't look at him like that he'll die. You've half scared him to death already." "Oh, no; he'll not die yet," said Newman. "He's just a little bit surprised at the encounter. But he's glad to see me aren't you, Beasley? Stop that nonsense, and get up!" This last was barked at the fellow; it was a soft-voiced but imperative command.
And then, still looking into the embers, he began to speak in his soft-voiced way "They're bonnie wee things, the Wee Folk, and merry as the lambs in June.
For wherever he might travel, he always made it a point to be home in time to wind the clocks; and however early he might hurry away again, under stress of some antiquarian impulse, they were left alive and pulsing behind him. There was one in each room, besides the tall eight-day in the parlor, and they were all soft-voiced and leisurely, reminiscent of another age than ours.
"I want zwieback," answered Elsmere cheerfully, in the persistent tone he had learned to value for its efficacy. "Where was your ma goin'?" asked the conductor. "I want zwieback," replied Elsmere. "Let me try," suggested a soft-voiced little lady. "I talked with his mother quite a bit while she was on.
On all sides we were gently and humbly besought by the shopkeepers, by the sidewalk vendors, by would-be guides, by fortune-tellers, by jugglers, by magicians; all soft-voiced and respectful; all yielding as water to rebuff, but as quick as water to glide back again.
For centuries, and even in these days, clandestinely; I am told by men whom I trust; the most beautiful maiden of a certain tribe among the Javanese; and some of the most beautiful women I saw in the Orient were those soft-skinned, soft-voiced, easy-moving, graceful-limbed, swaying-bodied; brown skinned women of Java; she, the fairest of the tribe is taken; and with her the strongest limbed youth; he of the fibered muscles; he of the iron biceps; he of the clean skin; and the two of them are tossed into the belching fiery crater of old Bromo.
One morning he had half an hour's tete-a-tete with his grandmother's confessor, a soft-voiced old Abbe whom, for reasons of her own, Madame de Mauves had suddenly summoned and had left waiting in the drawing-room while she rearranged her curls.
And has not the charge of beefiness been brought much nearer home to us than that? But about all the northern races there is something that is kindred to cattle in the best sense something in their art and literature that is essentially pastoral, sweet-breathed, continent, dispassionate, ruminating, wide-eyed, soft-voiced a charm of kine, the virtue of brutes.
Yancey stepped forward, but he was still behind the soft-voiced Edouard Fouche, who said: "I'll take them, then. I'm not so high-minded about it." Tex Yancey pawed Fouche aside as a bear might sweep aside an annoying puppy. "Out of the way, little fellow. We'll divide these spoils of war or we'll draw for 'em. Everyone to draw straws." "Wait!"
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