Mary's voice, we learn quickly, "was so small and soft, she often had to say things more than once".
The bill is usually small and soft and may be overhung by the fleshy operculum (cere), which is enlarged in some of the fruit pigeons and domesticated forms of Columba livia.
Her chestnut hair is scraped back from a face which is small and soft as a pompom, the shawl covers a jazzy black-and-white blouse, and she is wearing imperious black boots over black leggings.
The goblin shark also ram-feeds on its prey, but it is morphologically quite different from the other typical mackerel sharks in having a long flattened head, a slender body, flabby body musculature, small and soft fins, and a weak ribbon-like caudal fin, suggesting a different mode of life from them.
Of the Sioux's ceremonial "jingle dress" -- the resonant parts are sometimes made from the tops of chewing tobacco cans -- he says, "A woman moving in a jingle dress is a multiplicity of small and soft sounds, like a treeful of dried seed pods rustling in the wind or a river with lots of shards of ice".
The hands move, first large and crabby, then small and soft, in example and imitation, and all through the night, hour after hour — while everyone else on the plane sleeps or dozes or watches DVDs on a laptop — their hands move and their voices murmur.
She is small and soft-spoken, but her demure demeanor belies an adventurous spirit.
Small and soft-spoken, he no longer looks like the bewildered, baby-faced bodybuilder whom people saw at his trial.
Forgione uses culls in the dish he serves in the restaurant — lobsters with only one claw, small and soft-shelled.
Since entoprocts are small and soft-bodied, fossils have been extremely rare.
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