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Meanings of weep softly in English

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Usage of weep softly in English
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She took his thin hand in hers, and began to weep softly.
The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double R...
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She began to weep softly, drying her eyes and trying to laugh.
The Touchstone of Fortune / Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who...
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Maria began to weep softly, pressing her handkerchief to her eyes.
The Portion of Labor
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Mamie began to weep softly, but more from joy than otherwise.
Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California
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Charlotte began to weep softly against her sister's shoulder.
The Debtor: A Novel
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Presently she covered her face with her hands and began to weep softly and Tarling waited.
The Daffodil Mystery
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Women began to weep softly and restrainedly.
Winding Paths
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We never left her arm-chair, and she would talk of Mamma, and weep softly, and caress us.
Childhood
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She dropped the letter into her purse, then began to weep softly, her face in her hands.
Gods go begging
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She began to weep softly.
Heart of the Sunset
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But, as a matron led her toward the cells, she began to weep softly and successive tremors shook her frame.
The Substitute Prisoner
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Then her head drooped again and was laid against my breast; a sigh escaped her, and she began to weep softly.
Bardelys the Magnificent / Being an account of the strange wooin...
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Jess watches him ride out of sight, then sits on steps and looks in direction he has gone, starting to weep softly.
Writing the Photoplay
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Hildreth began to weep softly....
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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Weeping softly, she tells the fortune teller that she has marital problems.
Reuters
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Henrietta was weeping softly behind the handkerchief she held at her eyes.
The Missing Bride
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