Whispers
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'Bella, dear, advise me.'Upon this, Emily and Mr. Snodgrass, and Arabella and Mary, crowded into a corner, and conversed earnestly in
whispers
for some minutes, during which the fat boy dozed.
More example sentences with word whispers
But when I was six, the adults in my family began to speak in
whispers
and shushed me any time that I asked a question.
These films held what was too hurtful to say out loud, and they became more useful to me than the
whispers
of survivors and the occasional glimpse of a tattoo on a maiden aunt's wrist.
It's the stigma inside of others, it's the shame, it's the embarrassment, it's the disapproving look on a friend's face, it's the
whispers
in the hallway that you're weak, it's the comments that you're crazy.
Double standards for men and women, sex as a source of shame, family control limiting individual choices, and a vast gulf between appearance and reality: what people are doing and what they're willing to admit to, and a general reluctance to move beyond private
whispers
to a serious and sustained public discussion.
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