Speak softly

Usage examples of whispering.

The three members of the agronomic team were there, sitting near Cathartes on the floor, whispering among themselves.

Lady Bellamy, robed as an Egyptian sorceress, and holding a letter in her hand, which she offered to Angela, whispering in her ear.

In the vision of the distances, where desert blent with sky, earth surely curving up to meet the downward curving heaven, the dimness was like a voice whispering strange petitions.

Orlando, the Blesser of Bethe Corbair, was the first there, whispering words of comfort.

A red silk curtain scented with rose oil, musk, sperm, rectal mucus, ozone and raw meat goes up on a hospital ward of boys covered with phosphorescent red blotches that glow and steam the fever smell off them, shuddering, squirming, shivering, eyes burning, legs up, teeth bare, whispering the ancient evil fever words.

The King was too much taken up with viewing the Person to whom he had been so complaisant, to take any Notice of such Whisperings.

Even worse than the whispering and the malaise that had struck her when she created the mannikin was the awful wiggling sensation against her abdomen.

An hour later he was trotting down a manzanita slope to his cabin, nestled in the cup of the hills, surrounded by the whispering firs.

He told her, whispering as Margery whispered to Miss Kelly when she talked of the First Wife.

She imagined him whispering nonsensical words, words of comfort and joy and love.

Hawk, Perd, and Marit had been whispering together, and suddenly all three turned and attacked Connor at the same time.

Sounds came from the edge of the world: a truck growling on the horizon, the whispering rumble of pronghorn antelope as they loped across the land, the howl of a coyote.

An interminable period of monotony lived in the eternal mists, swirling with sluggish dankness, enervating, miasmatic, pulsant with the secret whisperings of mephitic lifeforms.

Lady Rangle was claimed instantly by the ancient Earl of Silchester and began whispering to him.

At the hospital, his X ray had been misread and the three of us were sent home with reassurances, but Reamy and I knew so profoundly that something was wrong with our listless whispering child that we returned.