low tone

Yet there was something in the gentle sad look that met him, and in the low tone of the "How d'ye do, Ritchie?"

The latter's face was smiling and gay as he addressed some remark to Mazaroff in a low tone, but his words were bitter.

Paul went on talking in a quiet, low tone, while Digby was munching a thick slice of bread-and-butter.

He spoke angrily, and no longer in a low tone, but gruff and loud enough to be heard some distance away.

"The poor child is there," said David, in a low tone, at the same time motioning the anxious parent to look behind the door.