She had little doubt, that the interview was intended for the purpose of communicating to her a part of M. Quesnel's letter concerning the transactions at La Vallee, and she obeyed him immediately.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

She took the greatest pleasure in handling it, in washing and dressing it, for it seemed to her that all this was the confirmation of her maternity; and she would look at it, almost feeling surprised 'that it was hers, and would say to herself in a low voice as she danced it in her arms: “It is my baby, it's my baby.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

She resumed her seat, and had scarcely done so, when the doubtful page darted into the room and announced, Mr. Pyke, and Mr. Pluck, and Lord Verisopht, and Sir Mulberry Hawk, all at one burst.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

So they say that one time Apollodorus in a dream saw himself flayed by the Scythians, and then boiled, and that his heart out of the caldron spoke to him in a low voice and said, "I am the cause of this;" and at another time he dreamed that he saw his daughters running round him in a circle all on fire and in flames.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

It bears, at any rate, if I know its voyagers, eyes as lustrous, voices as sweet.
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

She knew by heart the love songs of the last century, and sang them in a low voice as she stitched away.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

"Ellen," he said in a low voice, as she reached the pavement.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

she repeated in a low voice as she made her way out to the azotea.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Gheena put on a black cloak, wrapped her head in a Lusky veil and slipped away to the shore.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers

Then, in a low voice, asked Stuart if he had been present at Merle’s wedding.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern

[131] “My sister Helen has come,” he said in a low voice, “and someone is with her.”
— from Rilla of the Lighthouse by Grace May North

On May 29, in a letter to his mother, a very parental letter about his homesick little sister who had not yet been taken from the elderly family in which she was so unhappy, he drops into a lighter vein and says: “I have overheard a good deal of Minckwitz conversation which they did not think I understood; Father was considered ‘very pretty’ ( sehr hübsch ) and his German ‘exceedingly beautiful,’ neither of which statements I quite agree with.”
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Neill says of him, "John Pory was a graduate of Cambridge, a great traveller and good writer, but gained the reputation of being a chronic tipler and literary vagabond and sponger."
— from Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

"Yes," she said, in a low voice; and she sat down with her back to the windows, through which shone momentarily the glare of the coming tempest.
— from Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe

This disease, so frequently attending long voyages, and so particularly destructive to us, is surely the most singular and unaccountable of any that affects the human body.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

Have ready a saucepan of boiling water, add a little vinegar and salt, and put in the brains.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton