softly

It then turned itself sideways in a “belly flop” maneuver and headed back to Earth before righting itself, reigniting its engines and touching down softly.

His peers remember him as a bright man who spoke softly and occasionally came across as a bit shy.

He played it through once, singing the lyrics softly to his own guitar accompaniment.

“J.W. heard Hayden say softly, ‘You smell good,’” the papers report.

He seemed to be here, there, everywhere, sitting under a tree softly strumming his guitar.

Kimberlin, who looks and softly speaks like a miniaturized clone of David Strathairn, could not lay a glove on his tormenter.

The two were standing together before the fire; Bernard watched Mrs. Vivian close the door softly behind her.

The next instant the door closed softly behind them, and she went out of his life as a wife forever.

Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight.

She glanced up at him softly, under long lashes,—a thrilling glance; but he missed its radiance, for his own eyes were far away.

They were standing over the cots in the nursery late at night, and I think that Mamma was crying softly.