whisper

• Not that secrets can't be shared at high noon in the middle of the Smithville town square--a whisper is still a whisper, any time of day--but he's long since accepted the fact that most respectable people don't want to be seen with him. —  Omni: August 1994
• It was a whisper, and his lips touched her neck, light as a whisper, yet the touch seared her. —  Chase, Loretta - Knave's Wager
• He was, through a vocal freak, unable to whisper; his efforts at a whisper were about as secretive as a B29 buzzing a farmhouse. —  157 - Terror And The Lonely Widow
• Close in; out cutlasses and up and have her Softly as his whisper was uttered it was heard upon the lugger by the watchful smugglers. —  In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel"
• Tabby, that is making humility go a little too far IV WOMEN AS LOVERS In every clime and country There lives a Man of Pain Whose nerves, like chords of lightning Bring fire into his brain To him a whisper is a wound A look or sneer, a blow More pangs he feels in years or months Than dunce-throng'd ages know I have had such a curious experience. —  The Love Affairs of an Old Maid

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