There was a hushed way of speaking, too, that impressed Ruth.

Little Horace Dickson answered in a hushed way-asone in the presence of a miracle:

They were talking in lowered tones, and even laughing in a hushed way as they approached the house.

We'll give you credit for that point, Steve, because it's a fact, laughed the trapper, in a half- hushed way.

He delights in it as he delights in frost and fire and in the glorious, modest, implacable, hushed way they work!