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  • Then, seeing him about to explode back at her, she switched abruptly, her voice crooningly gentle.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Then, seeing him about to explode back at her, she switched abruptly, her voice crooningly gentle.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • "And you've missed 'em ever since -- you've just been _honin'_ for a mother, I know," said the woman, crooningly, and patting Nancy's shoulder.

    A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

  • While song of the birds, of water and bees comes crooningly, crooningly,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 Various

  • It was with awe and wonder that a few days later she had seen Mrs. Chic lying in her big white bed so crooningly happy and jubilant.

    The Triflers Frederick Orin Bartlett

  • Her voice was crooningly soft and sweet, as if she were murmuring over a sleepy baby.

    The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

  • The crooningly sweet voice, the petting, the gift of animal crackers of which he was childishly fond -- all these delighted Lad beyond measure.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Her voice was crooningly soft and sweet, as if she were murmuring over a sleepy baby.

    The Ranch at the Wolverine B. M. Bower 1905

  • 'He loosed the blade a little and drove it back happily into the sheath, and the sword answered him low and crooningly, as -- as a woman would speak to a man, her head on his shoulder.

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Oh how terrible people are, "she said crooningly, knowing that he was there though he only went to introduce Banker Ching from whom he was trying to borrow funds.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

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