half-subdued

Everybody was in a hurry to give his opinion about life; but all spoke in a half-subdued voice, and the mother noticed a tone of hostility in all, which was new to her.

Mother 2003

Here are the bounds, more than once infringed by the half-subdued nomads, and there was every reason to believe that Omsk was already in danger.

Michael Strogoff 2003

Not a wrinkle of her ill-fitting bodice escaped me, not a movement of her ungainly form passed unnoticed, I was dissecting her to a pitiful disadvantage, following up each new discovery with a moral of my own when a half-subdued voice whispered in my ear:

The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

But the echoes of the chime die away -- they have endured but an instant -- and a light, half-subdued laughter floats after them as they depart.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

But the common dangers to which they were exposed from the attacks of the half-subdued Canaanitish tribes about them, and the example of the great kingdoms of Egypt and

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

As though the magnetism of love had communicated itself to the sleeper, he sighed heavily, and uttered a groan of half-subdued anguish.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

The chants—there were three of them, all told—were measured and rather slowly uttered melodies, varied with an occasional half-subdued shrill cry.

VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land 1914

Here are the bounds, more than once infringed by the half-subdued nomads, and there was every reason to believe that Omsk was already in danger.

Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 1911

But still she only laughed, in spite of the agitation but half-subdued in his voice.

The Tidal Wave and Other Stories 1910

No one could doubt that the first part of the aria was a success, for half-subdued applause broke out when the voice sank into silence, and for a few moments the piano rippled on alone; but it seemed to Winifred that the look of tension was still in the singer's face, and once more she grew uneasy, for she understood the cause for it.

Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905