Take a knife, and conuey the same betweene your two hands, so as no parte be seene thereof, but a little of the poynt, which you must so bite at the first as noyse may be made therwith: then seeme to put a great parte therof into your mouth, and letting your hand slip downe, there will appeare to haue bin more in your mouth, then is possible to be conteyned therein: then send for drinke, or vse some other delaye vntill you haue let the said knife slip into your lap, holding both your fists close together as before, and then raise them so from the edge of the table where you sit (for from thence the knife may most priuily slippe downe into your lappe) and in steede of biting the knife, knab a little vppon your naile, and then seeme to thrust the knife into your mouth, This is pretty if it be cleanely done.
— from The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine Wherein is Deciphered All the Conueyances of Legerdemaine and Iugling, How They Are Effected, and Wherin They Chiefly Consist; Cautions to Beware of Cheating at Cardes and Dice, the Detection of the Beggerly Art of Alcumistry, and the Foppery of Foolish Cousoning Charmes, All Tending to Mirth and Recreation, Especially for Those That Desire to Haue the Insight and Priuate Practise Thereof by Samuel Rid

When she came back, she walked to her mother's side, and said in a low voice,— "You needn't worry about the money any more, mother.
— from Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham

Boccaccio relates, that, after that part of the "Commedia" which treats of Hell had become famous it happened one day in Verona, that Dante "passed before a door where several women were sitting, and one of them, in a low voice, yet not so but that she was well heard by him and his companion, said to another woman: 'See that man who goes through Hell and comes back when he pleases, and brings news of those who are down there!'
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The man came close to the canoes, and after casting a furtive glance up and down the shore, said in a low voice: "You needn't get out.
— from Canoe Boys and Campfires; Or, Adventures on Winding Waters by William Murray Graydon

The other says to her with a loud voice: “You need not tell me, little dumb creature, for you would never get to the end of it.
— from La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

," said the superintendent in a low voice, yet not so low but that Dick heard him.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

she said, in a low voice, "you need not apologize.
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

Upon embracing him, therefore, as he retired to rest, "Father," she said, in a low voice, "you need be under no apprehension; I solemnly swear to you by Diana, that both of us have spoken nothing but the truth."
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus