Sentence examples for run softly from inspiring English sources

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Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song … Datta.

You could say I drink to recall; run softly till you end your song.

Note: O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! is sometimes translated as "Run softly, softly, horses of the night".

When, for instance, the narrator looks out at the night and thinks, "Sweet Hudson... run softly, till I end my song," he is, of course, quoting from T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" — "Sweet Thames..."...

When, for instance, the narrator looks out at the night and thinks, "Sweet Hudson... run softly, till I end my song," he is, of course, quoting from T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" — "Sweet Thames......

It's a poem of great charm, and the refrain, "Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song," is one of the best-known lines of poetry in the language.

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"Why do you run?" Alejandro asked, softly, as if aware that he was breaking the rules.

Run your fingers softly through her hair (If her hair is not tied).

The informal palais de justice was run by a softly-spoken former jihadi fighter with a long grey beard called Abdesslam Sharif.

"Play softly.

Somehow he persuaded it to come out softly and run gently down a slope some 60 feet before settling by the hole.

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