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Strike speaks softly and insert whispers.

Determined not to miss out next time, he prepared to strike the gong softly in a Tchaikovsky piece.

Mr. Plimpton talked his way back in time for the Winnipeg concert, agreeing to softly strike the gong at a moment in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian," a writer for the Winnipeg Free Press recalled.

Softly strike his face or kiss him tenderly to wake him up without growing grumpy.

Sevilla still had a golden late chance to force extra time when the former Barça player Aleix Vidal was fouled by Ter Stegen in the 89th minute but the substitute Wissam Ben Yedder struck his penalty softly along the ground and the towering German goalkeeper saved comfortably.

I went there one afternoon when the sun was blazing, with a pad and pencil, and filled sheet after sheet even after the sun had set and I could hardly see what my hand was writing: "I sit at the edge of the water, listening to the plash of wavelets softly striking the bank".

"But what a shame, shame, shame," he said, striking his hand softly against the steering wheel and knotting his face in simulation of extreme pain, "that they couldn't have been more serious about the content!

At the time, in neighbouring West Yorkshire, Chief Constable Colin Sampson spoke publicly of the importance of preserving trust between police and mining communities for when the strike was over, declaring a "softly-softly" approach in which horses and riot shields would be used only as a last resort.

As the oldest of the three, Mr Yauch always struck me as the softly spoken, contemplative one.

Figgins would strike out, and Cabrera would pop softly to right.

When Lopez swung over a slider to strike out, Benitez pumped his fist softly.

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