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Whispered in sentence

386 examples of Whispered in a sentence

"Don't shout like that," whispered the usher, "there's offices all round us here.
"He's very good with the litigants," whispered the girl.
"Louder," he whispered with his head sunk low, ashamed at having to ask them to speak louder when he knew they had spoken loudly enough, even if it had been, for him, incomprehensible.
Franz, the policeman, had been fairly quiet so far, probably in expectation of a good result from K.'s intervention, but now he stepped forward to the door wearing just his trousers, kneeled down hanging on to K.'s arm and whispered, "Even if you can't get mercy shown for both of us, at least try and get me set free.
K.'s uncle knocked at the very first door at ground level; while they waited he smiled, showing his big teeth, and whispered, "Eight o'clock; not the usual sort of time to be visiting a lawyer, but Huld won't mind it from me."Two large, black eyes appeared in the spy-hatch in the door, they stared at the two visitors for a while and then disappeared; the door, however, did not open.
Huld is ill," whispered someone behind them.
He interrupted himself, whispered, "I bet you she's listening!" and sprang over to the door.
"Nothing has happened," she whispered to him, "I just threw a plate against the wall to get you out of there."
When she went over to him with the dish she deliberately brushed against him and whispered, "I'll tell him you're here as soon as he's eaten the soup so that I can get you back as soon as possible."
This combination of criminal and commercial business seemed surprisingly reassuring for K."Oh yes," said the businessman, and then he whispered, "They even say he's more efficient in jurisprudence than he is in other matters."
He drew near, and whispered hoarsely:"I've got a couple of skulls down in the crypt," he said; "come and see those.
You will laugh," whispered the two young men, as they passed through the room, and took up an unobtrusive position behind the Professor's back.
His father went back to his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I beg of you."
From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here."
"He will patch up your arm in the twinkling of an eye"; and beckoning to the guides to approach, he whispered and pointed to his prisoner, and then galloped furiously towards his comrades.
"What think you?" he whispered, on reaching the passage.
Approaching the bedside, Harvey leaned his body forward, and, in a voice nearly choked by his feelings, he whispered near the ear of the sick,-"Father, do you know me?"
Dunwoodie whispered his orders in the ear of a subaltern, and motioned to the peddler to withdraw.
"John," whispered the surgeon, with awakened curiosity, "what means this festival?"
"Say no more," whispered Frances; "you distress us both - say no more, I entreat you."
"A boy of spirit," whispered the president to his silent comrade.
"She shall," whispered Dunwoodie.
"It is - it is," whispered Frances, burying her face still deeper in the bosom of her aunt.
The extraordinary vehemence of the stranger's manner had passed away as suddenly as it was exhibited, but he listened to this speech with deep interest, while Dunwoodie replied, a little gravely, - "Come, come, Tom, no jokes about my good aunt, I beg; she is kindness itself, and I have heard it whispered that her youth was not altogether happy."
The choir always tittered and whispered all through service.
At last she gave in and hesitatingly whispered: "Let me see it."
When it was finished, she gazed a moment, then whispered:"It's nice--make a man."
He could have stepped over the house; but the girl was not hypercritical; she was satisfied with the monster, and whispered:"It's a beautiful man--now make me coming along."
"It's easy," whispered Tom, "I'll learn you."
When school broke up at noon, Tom flew to Becky Thatcher, and whispered in her ear:"Put on your bonnet and let on you're going home; and when you get to the corner, give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down through the lane and come back.
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