Down on the floor, I heard a faint, frightened whimper, and something pressed itself in between my two feet.

He did not fondle them, as Gray Wolf did, but the touch of them, and their babyish whimperings, filled him with a kind of pleasure that he had never experienced before.

Harold Beecham was not a whimpering cur.

Down on the floor, I heard a faint, frightened whimper, and something pressed itself in between my two feet.

He, too, began to feel the subtle stillness of the drowsing woodland; musing there, caressing his short, crisp mustache, he watched the purple grackle walking about in iridescent solitude, the sun spots waning and glowing on the grass; he heard the soft, garrulous whimper of waterfowl along the water's edge, the stir of leaves above.

the wise old hound Regardless of the frolic pack, attends His master's side, or slumbers at his ease Beneath the bending shade; there many a ring 220 Runs o'er in dreams; now on the doubtful foil Puzzles perplexed, or doubles intricate Cautious unfolds, then winged with all his speed, Bounds o'er the lawn to seize his panting prey: And in imperfect whimperings speaks his joy.

" "Oh, naturally," retorted the girl in an indignant whimper.

But he had evidently been thinking on the way, for he set the bucket down carefully, wiped his hands on his canvas breeches, and began to speak, with a little apologetic whimper in his voice.

Faint as illusion, a wail, a thin-spun thread of sorrow, broke into lonely whimpering, and ceased.

After a long silence, broken only by Mary's half-smothered sobs, the duke turned sharply upon the women: "For the love of God, cease your miserable whimpering," growled his lordship.

" A muffled whimpering from my neighbour on the left hand was accompanied by a wild rustling of silk.

But he had evidently been thinking on the way, for he set the bucket down carefully, wiped his hands on his canvas breeches, and began to speak, with a little apologetic whimper in his voice.

Then, he was quiet, save for an occasional, subdued whimper of fear.