talk low

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He writes about meeting Wayne, who gave him this advice on making it in Hollywood: "Remember to talk low, talk slow and don't say too much."

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2010

An' sometimes, when you talk low, it sounds round and sweet like the 'cello in the Macdonough Theater orchestra.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack

Scouts should always talk low and quietly, and also should always move quietly and lightly.

From Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

For however this extraordinary interview might end, it must pass if possible without waking Catriona; and the one thing needful was that we should sit close and talk low.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence