Subdued

Examples

• It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• On the bright hill-sides was a subdued smoulder of gorse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He seemed not one whit subdued by the change of scene and action impending. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Dorothea set earnestly to work, bending close to her map, and uttering the names in an audible, subdued tone, which often got into a chime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He clasped his hands together, and involuntarily uttered a subdued exclamation of horror. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Yet while Dr. Bretton continued subdued, and, for him, sedate, he was still observant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer stillness and the subdued light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thus he spoke not persuading Cr?sus; for it is true indeed that the Persians before they subdued the Lydians had no luxury nor any good thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Marianne was quite subdued. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish to riot in the excess of my despair. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She had chained it up again, and however it might tear her within, she subdued it to herself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He is describing, with a certain subdued enthusiasm, the probable technical developments of military method in the next war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She descended in a subdued flutter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then the passages were tinged with a subdued happiness that was even sadder than the rest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Barclay's remarks were subdued and abrupt, so that none of them were audible to the listeners. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Deerhurst accepted it with apparent gratitude, as though quite subdued. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It was pink, and pale pink too, and further subdued by black lace. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He subdued himself, and went away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The instinctive c raving for power, the will to dominate, of which Nietzsche was the lyricist, was in these men subdued to patience, industry, and philanthropy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• When he spoke again, however, it was to say, in rather a subdued voice-- I have just come away from Stone Court, Mr. Bulstrode. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Not that he feared fighting; ridicule alone was the bugbear, which made him smother his rising anger till he had quite subdued it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow, and quenched in infinite wretchedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• She has not come, he replied in a subdued tone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When Evadne pronounced my death, I thought that the title of Victor of Constantinople would be written on my tomb, and I subdued all mortal fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When summoned by her nurse she rose and departed very obediently, having bid us all a subdued good-night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The plough and the hoe are the chief implements with which man has subdued the earth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He had spoken all in a low whisper, evidently fearing spying ears even here, and so I answered him in the same subdued tone. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The question is, says Mr. Tulkinghorn in his methodical, subdued, uninterested way, first, whether you have any of Captain Hawdon's writing? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The shrieks and the cries were audible there, though subdued by the distance. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They elevated me from all littleness of feeling; and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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