whispering

• Folks got up, shuffling their feet, putting on their wraps with the familiar, mild contortions, still whispering, whispering--"What a shame!" —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• I feel that my forehead is flushed, and I hide it behind Bella's tresses--whispering to her at the same time--"Let us go What, sir," says my uncle, mistaking my meaning--"do you persuade her to disobey Now I am angry, and say blindly--"No, sir, I didn't!" —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
• To her, to the Anglican Colonel, to the Nonconformist minister, to the Presbyterian American, even to the two Pagan black riflemen, religion in its various forms was fulfilling the same beneficent office,--whispering always that the worst which the world can do is a small thing, and that, however harsh the ways of Providence may seem, it is, on the whole, the wisest and best thing for us that we should go cheerfully whither the Great Hand guides us. —  A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
• You know quite well that you have not fully repented even yet While the whispering was going on, the active fancy of the youth saw the lovely face of Marion looking at him with mournful interest, as it had been the face of an angel, and then there came to his memory words which had been spoken to him that very day by his earnest friend Stevenson the marine: "No man can fully do his duty to his fellows until he has begun to do his duty to God The words had not been used in reference to himself but in connection with a discussion as to the motives generally which influence men. —  Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
• Perhaps his friends While they were whispering, the Indian was on his knees examining the footprints in question. —  The Crew of the Water Wagtail

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