small-voiced

Lawrence, if a bit small-voiced, is heartbreaking.

Porgy and Bess 2010

Thin-lipped, small-voiced and slightly framed, she's hardly an icon of physical menace in this era of iron-pumping maidens, but by staying within herself (to use a sportscasters 'favorite cliche) she creates an appealingly enigmatic figure, unpredictable and poignant.

Devil Or Charlie's Angel? 2008

He was not an imposing man, tending to be nervous, small-voiced and almost timid.

NOT HILLARY, OBAMA, GORE or VILSACK for President. HERE'S the BEST SHOT! 2006

‘Then… then I should… stay?’ she asked, small-voiced.

Mistress On Demand Cox, Maggie 2005

On the memorable night at Arden, however, it was but wretchedly rendered by a tall, small-voiced, flaxen-haired young woman, who stalked about the stage in high-heeled shoes and prodigious hoops, and declaimed the most fiery passages with an execrable drawl.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

As a small-voiced angel, with blessings concealed beneath his shadowy wing, he came, the herald of better days to him!

Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

The door is opened, perchance, by some Yankee-Hindoo woman, whose small-voiced but sincere hospitality, out of the bottomless depths of a quiet nature, has travelled quite round to the opposite side, and fears only to obtrude its kindness.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

It didn't help that the outstanding but small-voiced Carmen (Viktoria Vizin) had to sing her first aria upstage.

All articles at Blogcritics 2008

Though his imagination pictured to himself the whole scene, -- how he would humble himself to the ground as he acknowledged his unfitness, how he would endure the small-voiced triumph of the little bishop, how, from the abjectness of his own humility, even from the ground on which he would be crouching, he would rebuke the loud-mouthed triumph of the bishop's wife; though there was no touch wanting to the picture which he thus drew, -- he did not really propose to himself to commit this professional suicide.

The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope 1848