whispery

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The drums are clean and whispery, and the bass a comforting thrum - but both take a sensible back seat to Neil Cowley's piano, which is a warm, versatile, and completely bewitching

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  1. Full of whispers; whispering. [Rare.] The reeling sea Now thumps like solid rock beneath the stern, Now leaps with clumsy wrath, strikes short, and, falling Crumbled to whispery foam, slips rustling down The broad backs of the waves. Lowell, Columbus, l. 5.

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  • His voice was soft and whispery, which only magnified the slight lisp Fauquier was trying to downplay. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • That Mitchell, he stopped in mid-line and cocked his big square head and said kind of whispery, "Double dog damn." —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • And the spectacle haunts us because it seems to carry allegorical import, like the whispery omen of a hovering figure. —  F ;SF - vol 099 issue 03 - September 2000
  • Not that Samuel was a believer who just hadn't yet read the Blackabys 'book on picking out God's whispery, shadowy, well-nigh indecipherable voice. tongues. —  Pyromaniacs
  • He plays his humbly retired spy with gentle smile that can quickly give way to a menacing glare as he cracks heads; both looks work well in tandem with his whispery, scratchy voice. —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
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