soft-spoken

Francis is well into his seventies, looks it, has a mild demeanor and soft speaking style; but his rhetoric is electrifying.

Of course the expression of this value is modified and characterized by the nature of the thing spoken of.

On the morning after Ramona's disappearance, words had been spoken by each which neither would ever forget.

And once more, she found herself desiring to be like Janet--not only in appearance, but in soft manner and tone.

And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.

She was not accustomed to an outward and spoken expression of affection, either in herself or in others.