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Meanings of soft pedal in английском

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Usage of soft pedal in английском
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Why, it's a scene to be played with the soft pedal down!
The Ways of Men
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When she applied the soft pedal the Bacchic revel became a silent prayer.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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He certainly owes it to the nation to apply the soft pedal to himself.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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He has been hollering for soft pedal all the time.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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Guess I'd better put the soft pedal on him. He pulled out his hypodermic.
The Song of the Lark
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I started out with the soft pedal on, but things got away from me.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
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He played cautiously at first, with the soft pedal down.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
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But put the soft pedal on the temperamental stuff, when you're near Simon Cameron.
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
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You exclaim: What is that?- asentimentfor the soft pedal!
Piano and Song / How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a J...
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Well, now you know-goodfriends, and the soft pedal on sentiment and drama, eh?
The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)
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Then I went on with my meditations, thinking I had used the soft pedal effectively.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
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But when it's that kind of opinion he ought to put on the soft pedal.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize
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But can't it be done with the soft pedal?
The Poisoned Pen
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You are simply smothered in the soft pedal.
Jane Allen, Junior
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Officially and personally he felt imperatively bound to put the soft pedal on that instrument of discord.
Heart of the West
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It is good to have, but egotism needs the soft pedal when we speak or do things.
Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
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