"Sweetly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that this Composition be of the swiftest and largest deep Mouth'd Dog, the slowest and middle-siz'd, and the shortest Legged slender Dog. For these run even together; and warble forth their musical Notes most sweetly. ...
— The School of Recreation (1684 edition) • Robert Howlett
... said to me that little boys can't sing with their lips as sweetly as birds can, but they can sing with their hearts: are you sure you ...
— Dew Drops - Volume 37, No. 18, May 3, 1914 • Various
... thrilling burst from the lark's cage in the courtyard, both eyes opened, and he lay staring up at the whitewashed ceiling, covered with cracks, and looking like the map of Nowhere in Wonderland. For the lark sang very sweetly to charm the wished-for mate, which never came, and Frank smiled and gradually lowered his eyes so that they were fixed upon the uncurtained window till the lark ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn
... meekly and obediently, doing no harm. And the lad was delighted that the bear had walked away without hurting the saint, and that Christ was with him too. "Ah," said he, "how good that is, how good and beautiful is all God's work!" He sat musing softly and sweetly. I saw he understood. And he slept beside me a light and sinless sleep. May God bless youth! And I prayed for him as I went to sleep. Lord, send peace and light to ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... thou poor way-wearied woman! The leaves will serve thee for a winding-sheet. Night will shed her tears of dew over thee, and the birds will sing sweetly by thy remains. Thy visit here below will not have left more trace than their flight through the air; thy name is already forgotten, and the only legacy thou hast to leave is the hawthorn stick lying forgotten ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
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