He towered, moved softly and suddenly, usually vanished at any risk of being introduced.
Yesterday, as the ceremony went on inside the cathedral, outside along Fifth Avenue thousands of firefighters stood in formation, their rows of white and black caps visible for blocks as American flags moved softly in a slight breeze.
The gifts that come, when you move softly within a landscape!
I was vigilant, moving softly in the underbrush, and the palmettos' nails scraped down my body.
Her voice moves softly through the dark, closing in on the swinging bodies like a camera lens coming into focus.
The wholesale produce men, she reported, "are polite, quiet and unhurried, moving softly in the sleeping city".
Frederick recalled that "the gas-lights were turned down low, and the house was still, every one moving softly, and speaking in whispers".
It is comforting now and then to stop in at one of those old hotels around town where time rests as quietly as a country snowfall, and ancient widows, whose husbands knew Grover Cleveland, move softly about.
And the final "Spectre," with a row of intervals moving softly and slowly for eight minutes under Mr. Bleckmann's long tones, gets into Morton Feldman's territory; it's like walking slowly through a series of clouds.
The New Yorker, May 25 , 1935P. 15 It is comforting now and then to stop in at one of those old hotels around town where time rests as quietly as a country snowfall, and ancient widows, whose husbands knew Grover Cleveland, move softly about.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, May 25 , 1935P. 15 It is comforting now and then to stop in at one of those old hotels around town where time rests as quietly as a country snowfall, and ancient widows, whose husbands knew Grover Cleveland, move softly about.
