Which preposition to use with whispering
So deep was the sense of awe that Handy Solomon unbent enough to whisper to me: "I don't take any stock in the Nigger's talk ordinarily.
"First, my head would ache from the constant noise; then it would spin; then I should grow faint and hear you less distinctly; then your voice, although you were talking-on the same as ever, would sound like a mere steady hum to me; then I should become unconscious, and be carried home, with you still whispering in my ear.
Then, even as I stared, full of perplexity, I seemed to hear, far down, as though from untold depths, a faint whisper of sound.
The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.
We hear whispers from a far-off leader; we are beckoned by an unseen guide.
" There, far away amongst those for whom he gave his life, lie the remains of one of the world's great examples, whose name will ever be whispered with reverence, and who possessed to a wonderful extent "the peace which the world cannot give".
"I have heard, of course, what everyone in Lichfield whispers about you and Rudolph.
he whispered at last, "O, art thou indeed the Duchess Helen?" "Not so," she murmured, "Helen was duchess whiles she was in Mortain, but I that speak with thee am a lonely maidindeed a very lonely maid who hath sighed for thee, and wept for thee, and for thee hath left her duchy of Mortain, Beltane."
Would I have considered it farce if I could have heard the words which this detective was at that moment whispering into the district attorney's ears: "Do you want to know who throttled Adelaide Cumberland?
The tall old trees spread their long arms over us, clothed in the rich verdure of spring, and the breeze, so fresh and fragrant, moaned, and sighed, and whispered among the leaves.
Always Anne's voice whispered through the lisping of the beeches, through the murmur of the water....
Several times, the comfortless sound of some great piece of masonry falling, disturbed my meditations; and, once, it seemed I could hear whispering in the room, behind me.
Upon finding themselves in this temple of Momus, and observing that its peculiar arrangement of sunshine made their complexions look as though they had been dead a few days, Gospeler SIMPSON and the Flowerpot involuntarily spoke in whispers behind their hands.
I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head; but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet.
I knew, then, that the depth of the hole must be immense; for the stone, had it struck anything, was large enough to have set the echoes of that weird place, whispering for an indefinite period.
Rumor went before the two with a whisper on either side.
The whispers as to the circumstances under which the prisoner had taken the life of a friend of many years appealed to a sentimental public.
the Boy ventured to whisper under cover of the devil's sudden loud remonstrance, the sick man at this point breaking into ghastly groans.
It was a clear, cool, summer night, with the breeze just stirring in the trees and keeping up a faint, unceasing whispering among the leaves.
The young lady and the young male person who sit immediately in front of me clasp surreptitious hands as they bow their heads to repeat the confession that they are miserable sinners, and she whispers by no means softly to him of the "frightful bonnets the SMITH girls have on."
Whispering between her teeth a lullaby for her sleeping child in her blanket, she searches for something forgotten.
Who is it you have brought?" Narcissus beckoned the centurion toward the corner, between fire and wall, where he could whisper without risk of being overheard.
A faint ebb and flow whispered against the tiny gravel beach at the end.
The wheat bowed in waves before the wind, and the silken rustle, heard above the confusion of yelling men, was like a voice whispering to Kurt.
Now I verily believe that her design was to slip out, in pursuance of the closet-whispering between her and Miss Rawlins; perhaps to Miss Rawlins's house.