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Whisper in sentence

209 examples of Whisper in a sentence

Levin took one of the vacant chairs which were standing round the table, and in a whisper asked a student who was sitting there what was being read.
At seven o'clock he was awakened by her touch on his shoulder and a soft whisper.
'It seems to me he will fall asleep directly,' said Karenin in a significant whisper, approaching Lydia Ivanovna.
But the manager remained grave; and the laughter fell and their voices sank to a whisper, while the heavy feet of the delegates who were being shown in tramped over the carpet of the next room.
He had pronounced this word in a whisper, with religious fervour, casting a glance towards the east.
There was a timid scratch at the door, and Hippolyte allowed himself to whisper through the keyhole:"The postman, sir.
Maheu was standing by gloomily, when he heard a voice whisper in his ear to escape.
He refused to talk in the presence of some captains who were listening, and led his uncle ten metres away, and not thinking this far enough, drew still farther back; then, in a low whisper, he at last told of the outrage, the torn and sawn planks, the pit bleeding at the neck and groaning.
She repeated, in a whisper, the miner's saying:"Death is blowing out the lamp."
It was the whisper of the soul, deep, continuous, dominating that of their voices.
'God is punishing me,' she added in a whisper; 'He is just; I adore His equity; my crime is shocking, and I was living without remorse!
Amanda was as greatly agitated as himself, and had turned very red; she counted out his change as slowly as she could, repeating to him in a whisper as she did so:'Leave the cafe this instant, or I shan't like you any more; I do like you, though, very much.'Julien did indeed leave, but slowly.
He opened the shutter sufficiently to pass his head through the gap, repeating in a whisper: 'It is a friend.'
"That is well substantiated," said K., who had been repeating some parts of the priest's explanation to himself in a whisper.
Gregor's mother would tug at his sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect on him.
Young Wharton tapped his sister on the cheek, with a smile, as he asked her, in an affected whisper, "Did he tell you also that he loved my little sister Fanny?""Nonsense!" said Frances; and the remnants of the supper-table soon disappeared under her superintendence.
You look beautiful, and you will yet find one; but," she continued, dropping her voice to a whisper, "see that he has no other wife - 'tis dreadful to think what might happen, should he be twice married."
She endeavored to reply, but could only whisper something that was inaudible, but which her lover, with the privilege of immemorial custom, construed into assent.
Please, Becky--I'll whisper it, I'll whisper it ever so easy."
And then he added: "Now you whisper it to me--just the same."
So he said in a whisper: "Hucky, do you believe the dead people like it for us to be here?"
The whisper died wholly out, now, for the three men had reached the grave and stood within a few feet of the boys' hiding-place.
They continued to whisper for some little time.
His whisper was hardly audible when he said: "Oh, Huck, _its a stray dog_!""Quick, Tom, quick!
Tom stood amidships, gloomy-browed, and with folded arms, and gave his orders in a low, stern whisper:"Luff, and bring her to the wind!""Aye-aye, sir!""Steady, steady-y-y-y!"
"I wonder," said Tom in a whisper.
Don't whisper another word, Huck.
My mother came down with two plaids to keep the chill from us, and we all stood there until morning, speaking little to each other, and that little in a whisper.
"That's done it," said the man's eager whisper.
What tales we used to whisper about his strength!
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