Undervoice

Her sensations were indefinable, and so were they a few minutes afterwards upon hearing Henry Crawford, who had a chair between herself and Tom, ask the latter in an under voice whether there were any plan for resuming the play after the present happy interruption […]

Brayder introduced them to one or two of the men, hastily and in rather an undervoice, as a thing to get over.

A thousand soft undervoices that jumped my jangled senses from his last, weakly syllabled wind to a mosaic of voices within voices, each one immanent in the other, none his but all strangely his […]

Through the battered century of world wars and massive violence by other means, there had always been an undervoice that spoke through the cannon fire and ack-ack and that sometimes grew strong enough to merge with the battle sounds. It was the struggle between the state and secret groups of insurgents, state-born, wild-eyed—the anarchists, terrorists, assassins and revolutionaries who tried to bring about apocalyptic change.

[…] Your mother Played Prospero, flying her magic in To stage the Masque, and bless the marriage, Eavesdropping on the undervoices Of the honeymooners in Paris […]

Consequently, the danger for Dutch learners of English is undervoicing the English lenis fricatives rather than the reverse.

Undervoicing the flame, there was the popping of hollow weed stalks, the tinkle of woody stems crisping and falling in coals.