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Sotto voce

adverb
1.
In an undertone.  Synonym: in a low voice.





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"Sotto voce" Quotes from Famous Books



... salvation and until he should be hauled off he had no intention of slipping that cable. "Nothin' doin'," he answered. "We're hard an' fast, I tell you, and I'll take no chances. It's you or both of you, but I'll not cast off this hawser. If you want to let go, cast the hawser off at your end." Sotto voce he remarked to Scraggs: "I see him slippin' a three hundred dollar hawser, ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne


Words linked to "Sotto voce" :   in a low voice


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