stage-whispering

"Love the idea of the walkman/ipod," writes Paul McCormick, "but I never really took to it after standing at a Liverpool bus stop in the early days of the Sony Stowaway, and hearing two old ladies, on seeing me apparently bedecked in a headset and huge listening device, stage-whispering to each other, 'Ahhh, it's a shame, isn't it?'"

Manchester City 0 - 1 Liverpool – as it happened | Simon Burnton 2012

But Win was stage-whispering in a ridiculous British accent, The Mountainus goatus is a unique species, known for its keen appetite for automotive fluids.

Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008

If the Scripps Spelling Bee had been a Mark Burnett-style production, we'd have been treated to behind-the-scenes footage of players forming alliances, strategizing to trip up the frontrunners; Isabel Jacobson, the last female speller standing (you go, girl!), pitting the boys against each other by stage-whispering invitations to clandestine trysts; We'd "overhear" overstressed kids being browbeaten by parents who'd caught them peaking at comic books rather than practicing Croatian conjugation.

Brenda Scott Royce: Last Speller Standing 2008

But Win was stage-whispering in a ridiculous British accent, The Mountainus goatus is a unique species, known for its keen appetite for automotive fluids.

Shift Jennifer Bradbury 2008

According to summaries of interrogations and other stage-whispering that has been leaked to the press, the alleged murderers were said to be sexual predators who operated as a team, with Pandher supplying his house and veneer of respectability to protect them from suspicious eyes and Koli acting as procurer.

Without A Trace 2007

The ushers were all opening the doors in the orchestra section at the end of Act One while a hysterical supervisor was stage-whispering, "No, No, there are curtain calls!"

Archive 2006-11-01 sfmike 2006

The ushers were all opening the doors in the orchestra section at the end of Act One while a hysterical supervisor was stage-whispering, "No, No, there are curtain calls!"

Manon Lescaut sfmike 2006

There was a disgusted ripple of whispers, and Carlos's barely audible voice stage-whispering, "What a crock."

The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987

The pimps would sidle up close, stage-whispering, "All kinds of women, Jack-want a white woman?"

The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

'The captain's voice, by G--!' said the stage-whispering ruffian, and both robbers fled by the way of the back door, shutting off their bull's-eye as they ran.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872