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low-toned

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adj.1.relatively low in volume; soft; - of sound; as, making low-toned noises with their mouths that went as an undercurrent of sound. Opposite of loud.
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Adj.1.low-toned - very low in volume; "a low murmur"; "the low-toned murmur of the surf"
soft - (of sound) relatively low in volume; "soft voices"; "soft music"


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The roar of the working day drowns the voices of the elfin sprites that are ever singing their low-toned
Many of the men were making low-toned noises with their mouths, and these subdued cheers, snarls, imprecations, prayers, made a wild, bar- baric song that went as an undercurrent of sound, strange and chantlike with the resounding chords of the war march.
Bulstrode was a feminine smaller edition of her brother, and had none of her husband's low-toned pallor.
 
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