Using a strong, bittersweet cocoa, rather than chocolate, with a soft undertone of vanilla, does the same thing for chocolate ice milk.

"Watch him," he instructed in a soft undertone that no one heard except the animal.

Sometimes I heard her giving Julie instructions about the shopping, or Tom's clothes, always in a soft and rapid undertone.

Leon absorbed the wistful expression, the tremulous curve to her lips, and he swore in a soft undertone.

"You'll have to leave now so he can get some rest," she advised them in a soft undertone.

Over the ragged sound of my own breathing I could hear a soft, susurrant undertone.

The wafer tasted faintly bitter with a soft undertone of melange.

"Give him this," she said in a soft undertone.

'That succeeds admirably,' the Count had answered, in the same soft undertone.

Then she began explaining in a soft undertone.