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Whisper in sentence

209 examples of Whisper in a sentence

'Not a whisper of my name,' replied Pott; 'this is a buff neighbourhood.
Mr. Weller paused with an aspect of intense disgust, and looking round, added in a whisper,'They wos all widders, Sammy, all on 'em, 'cept the camomile-tea vun, as wos a single young lady o' fifty-three.'
He ventured once to whisper, 'Waiter!' through the keyhole, but the probability of the wrong waiter coming to his relief, flashed upon his mind, together with a sense of the strong resemblance between his own situation and that in which another gentleman had been recently found in a neighbouring hotel (an account of whose misfortunes had appeared under the head of 'Police' in that morning's paper), he sat himself on a portmanteau, and trembled violently.
What did you wish to communicate to me, my poor boy?''I want to whisper to you,' replied the fat boy.
'Counsel's Office,' replied the executor in a whisper.
With the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off other lovers by making love himself."
Edward saw enough to comprehend, not only the meaning of others, but such of Marianne's expressions as had puzzled him before; and when their visitors left them, he went immediately round her, and said, in a whisper, "I have been guessing.
Palmer is so droll!" said she, in a whisper, to Elinor.
"His name is Ferrars," said he, in a very audible whisper; "but pray do not tell it, for it's a great secret."
Jennings, with a very intelligent "Ah! poor dear," immediately gave her her salts; and Sir John felt so desperately enraged against the author of this nervous distress, that he instantly changed his seat to one close by Lucy Steele, and gave her, in a whisper, a brief account of the whole shocking affair.
So upon that, he smirked, and simpered, and looked grave, and seemed to know something or other, and at last he said in a whisper, 'For fear any unpleasant report should reach the young ladies under your care as to their sister's indisposition, I think it advisable to say, that I believe there is no great reason for alarm; I hope Mrs. Dashwood will do very well.'"
She saw her mother and Marianne change colour; saw them look at herself, and whisper a few sentences to each other.
They played it far into the night, in the marble-flagged court-yard, surrounded by green shutters from behind which Tarvin could hear, without turning his head, the whisper of watching women and the rustle of silken robes.
Then to himself in a contented whisper, "Kate!"
He began to whisper, childlike, to himself, to keep the message in mind.
Of what I said I know nothing; but surely it is allowed," she lowered her voice to a whisper, "oh, surely it is allowed to a mother to bid another woman look to her son.
Then, with an ear-splitting shriek of conchs, the temple doors opened inward, and the voices of the crowd were hushed into a whisper of awe.
It grew, died down again, and at last remained fixed in a continuous murmur for which the ear strained uneasily such a murmur as heralds the advance of a loud racing tide in a, nightmare, when the dreamer cannot flee nor declare his terror in any voice but a whisper.
There was a sound of a discreet cough, and Juggut Singh waddled toward them, bowing abjectly, to whisper something to the Queen.
It was dark with dried blood, and a bearded whisper ran among the escort.
The court-yard was empty, but as they came out into the sunshine by the central fountain the rustle and whisper behind the shutters rose, as the tiger-grass rustles when the wind blows through it.
The whisper rose, and it seemed to Tarvin as if some one were sobbing behind the shutters.
Again the whisper behind the shutter rose, and a man from a doorway demanded his business.
whom d’Artagnan had pushed into the hands of the officers, denying him aloud although he had promised in a whisper to save him.
I would arrest ten of them, VENTREBLEU, a hundred, even, all the company, and I would not allow a whisper."
Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us for an instant, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered:--"Mr.
Not a whisper, not a rustle, rose now from the dark figure over which we stooped.
I must request you to walk on tiptoe and not to talk above a whisper."
"It must be so, uncle," I heard him whisper.
As he came within the circle of light thrown by the windows, a whisper ran round as to who this masterful gentleman with the pale face and the driving-coat might be, and a lane was formed to admit us.
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