Sentence examples for softly below from inspiring English sources

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The official oeuvre, at least: among the very few new poems are some erotic verses on Eliot's wife ("My fingers move softly below, to her navel / And touch the delicate down beneath the navel"), written with the crisp efficiency of a late-period Eliot blurb.

Ms. Versace did display finesse in some of the day clothes, especially in suede skirts that hugged the rear and fanned out softly below the knees.

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Bloodless icefields stretched away to the Transantarctic mountains below softly furred cumulus clouds, and, even when there was little wind, ice crystals skittered through the air and burned our exposed faces.

The neighborhood north of New York Hospital is hardly the most pedestrian-friendly of areas, but strollers along York Avenue between Seventieth and Seventy-first Streets will be warmed by a surprising sight — a softly lit dining room, just below street level, in Sotheby's.

By Charles Michener The neighborhood north of New York Hospital is hardly the most pedestrian-friendly of areas, but strollers along York Avenue between Seventieth and Seventy-first Streets will be warmed by a surprising sight — a softly lit dining room, just below street level, in Sotheby's.

"Piano" means that you should play softly, and is usually written below the staff when the music should be played quietly.

Step softly on the ground starting just below the balls of your feet.

Viewed from the road below at dusk, the house softly glows.

Another of her current pets is a softly gathered peasant skirt that falls just below the knee, which she wears on occasion with cage-foot sandals or, alternately, with high-heeled lace-up boots.

There are all kinds of rituals, from making hot oatmeal below deck to singing barge lullabies softly at night.

For example, in the entry below, the homeowner is led through a softly curved circulation path leading in multiple directions, separating the public from private spaces.

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