Noiselessly vs Mutely - What's the difference?
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In a quiet manner, without any noise.
*1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Ch.5:
*:Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground--a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly ; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.