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Definition of Soundlessly
1. Adverb. Without a sound. "He stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door"
Definition of Soundlessly
1. Adverb. Done in a manner that makes no noise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soundlessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soundlessly
Literary usage of Soundlessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1905)
"Then she hid it in the folds of her kimona, and, her colourless lips close pressed
together, she passed soundlessly from the room down the little flight of ..."
2. New Poems by David Herbert Lawrence (1920)
"Soundlessly down across the counties, out of the resonant gloom That wraps the
north in ... Out of the sleep, from the gloom of motion, soundlessly, ..."
3. Speech Training for Children: The Hygiene of Speech by Margaret Gray Blanton, Smiley Blanton (1919)
"(also soundlessly) Lady-bug ties her bonnet under her chin, takes up her
market-basket, and goes to the third window or desk or other convenient spot. ..."
4. Speech Training for Children: The Hygiene of Speech by Margaret Gray Blanton, Smiley Blanton (1919)
"(also soundlessly) Lady-bug ties her bonnet under her chin, takes up her
market-basket, and goes to the third window or desk or other convenient spot. ..."
5. Memoirs of a Midget by Walter De la Mare (1922)
"soundlessly forward over the white tablecloth, across the rank dish of ...
An early fly or two—my strange, familiar friends—darted soundlessly beneath ..."
6. Memoirs of a Midget by Walter De la Mare (1922)
"soundlessly forward over the white tablecloth, across the rank dish of coagulating
... An early fly or two—my strange, familiar friends—darted soundlessly ..."
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