Crooning [verb]

She sat where he had left her, and was crooning again the weird tuneless dirge at which Marto had been appalled.

They sat there in the dark room for a long time, the girl rubbing Bumper's head and back and crooning gently to him.

Twas a quiet sea, breaking, in crooning lullaby, upon the rocks below my bedroom window.

Out on the plains the fourth guard were drowsily crooning the lullaby about the bull that "came down the hillside, long time ago."

I rolled about in the dry leaves, playing with them and making crooning, rasping noises in my throat.

It ran at the foot of the long, low hillside and could be heard crooning and gurgling under the leafy murmur of the forest.

Some curious twinge, half fearful, half regretful, drove her to peer through the leaves and to listen for his crooning song.

She smiled and went on crooning to him, half singing, half sighing that beguiling little melody of tenderness and entreaty.

Ethan walked up and down till the early bed hour, listening to the rain and to the sound of An' Jerusha's crooning.

Wasis was only the baby, who sat on the floor sucking a piece of maple-sugar and crooning a little song to himself.