Spoke quietly?

Usage examples of signed.

The bills signed by Morrel were presented at his office with scrupulous exactitude, and, thanks to the delay granted by the Englishman, were paid by Cocles with equal punctuality.

If you stood your ground and spoke or signed angrily to her, she usually chickened out.

We had a signed agreement over the care and responsibility for Jennie.

Mom, she signed, looking at the three men in the wagon with a mixture of curiosity and distaste.

Susan signed to the girls, then pulled the tiny, chestnut-haired twins to her.

Melanie slowly brought her hand up and switched from American Sign Language to Signed Exact English and fingerspelling.

Kielle signed furiously, her round face contorted with hatred as she gazed at Brutus.

Anna signed the same but then she usually echoed everything her very slightly older sister said.

Melanie signed fiercely, gesturing toward a large steel vat nearby, resting on its side.

Oralism was out and at last the school began teaching Signed Exact English.

He and Marks signed the document and Stevie Gates made one last run to the slaughterhouse.

The words were among the few in his own paltry vocabulary of sign language, words he in fact had signed to her earlier in the evening.

A single portrait, signed by Leopold Robert, shone in its carved and gilded frame.

And he signed it rapidly, after having first run his eye over that part of the deed in which were specified the situation of the house and the names of the proprietors.

With a slight inclination of the head, Danglars signed to the count to be seated, pointing significantly to a gilded arm-chair, covered with white satin embroidered with gold.