Phillips, the wireless operator, seized his key and telegraphed in every direction the call "S O S!" Gossiping among telegraphers hundreds of miles apart, messages of business import, all the scores of things that fill the ocean air with tremulous whisperings of etheric waves, began to give over their chattering.

Spies amongst the people, who shall lay their eares To every mouth and steale to you their whisperings.

He could enter now without the dread of echoing footsteps or wistful, half-heard whisperings.

There were low whisperings in barrack-rooms and canteens, stealthy meetings in public-house parlours, bandying of passwords from mouth to mouth, and many other signs which made their officers right glad when the order came which sent them to foreign, and better still, to active service.

She would have seen the barrier that had so long interposed itself to her wishes broken down; not by any rude hand, but by the influence of those whisperings of the Divine Spirit, which open the way to men to fit themselves for the presence of God.

And again, at this age, when a little girl is not formed, does it not make what I have called a lascivious picture to show her inventing little sins in the shadow, under the whisperings of the priest, recalling comparisons she has heard about the affianced, the celestial lover and eternal marriage which gave her a shiver of voluptuousness? Would you see Madame Bovary in her lesser acts, in a free state, without a lover and without sin?

Ah! you spoke of her little sins, and in quoting from the first number, you said: "When she went to confession, she invented little sins, in order that she might stay there longer, kneeling in the shadow ... beneath the whisperings of the priest."

But I am not so sure of the unlikelihood of a child of ten years liking to remain at the confessional "under the whisperings of the priest.

And now you shall see whence comes the invention of the little sins "under the whisperings of the priest."

the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels; all talk and no cider; foul whisperings are abroad

But by mere chance I happened to be at the spot one bright night, and I heard distinct whisperings, just as had been described to me.

Small noises, whisperings, murmurings, creakings, soft shufflings, irritated him.

On being made acquainted with the cause of the detestation that existed between the two families, Lieutenant Morris, in some degree, yielded to the whisperings of wounded pride, and began to regret that he had entered the house of a man who had offered an indignity to his father that was not to be forgiven.

I love those thingsloneliness, emptiness, the great spaces where you hear only the whisperings of the winds and the fall of no other feet but your own.

One's passions, actions, and whisperings were as naked to the world as the horns on a cow.

"It sounded to me like the tones of an oraclethe whisperings of fancythe very words of truth!

In the solitude of the great Wilderness, where I have passed months at a time, generally alone, or with only my dog to keep me company, airy nothings became sensible; and, in the silence of those nights in the forest, the whisperings of the night wind through the trees forced meanings on the expecting ear.

It was a wonderful dayquite an indescribable day; but there were also some things about it that made Captain Ellice feel, somehow, that it was a mysterious day, for, while there were hearty congratulations, and much sobbing for joy, on the part of Mrs. Bright, there were also whisperings which puzzled him a good deal.

Then there were whisperings between the other two men, of which he could only hear the hum.

It is good for us to lend a spiritual ear to these ancient whisperings, and hear nymph calling to nymph and faun to faun, as they caper merrily with the god Pan through the silence.

They had heard whisperings of the War but did not understand the meaning of it all.

The city was full of superstitious awe and of whisperings that Heaven was thus bearing witness to the Treasurer's innocence.

A sudden pang of conscience smote the heart of the mistaken girl at these words, a sob rose choking in her throat, and she longed to have given vent to the tears which pride, anger, and remorse were summoning, but she would not, and answered according to those evil whisperings, which before she had only indulged in secret.

"Is it absolutely necessary," Caroline at length said, summoning, as her aunt Eleanor had often done, pride to drown the whisperings of conscience, "that I must love another, because I rejected Lord St. Eval?

The forest always has a weird fascination for me, with its soft whisperings, as if the trees were confiding secrets to each other.