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.

For ever, as I journey on, to me Waking or sleeping come faint whisperings And fancies not of earth, as if the gates Of near eternity stood for me ajar, And ghostly gales come blowing o'er my soul Fraught with the amaranth odors of the skies.

" As they rode down the river, Mary could not sleep at first because the rowers kept whispering, "Don't shake the canoe or you will wake Ma," or "Don't talk so loud so Ma can sleep."

On and on ran the interminable thin whispering as Margaret waited for death to come to Billy.

Seeing this the class ceased whispering, but the white mother's faithful teachings went unheeded, and she saw the lesson was a failure.

I overheard her whispering, "Just so many hours, minutes, etc., to Tuesday; I think St. George's goes too slow."

"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?

I came with a falling beside her, and I gat upon my knees and upon my hands, and my heart did shake my lips to dry whisperings.

"Who've you been robbing, you fat pirate?" Sam kept 'is eyes shut and 'eard 'em whispering; then he felt 'em take 'is hand up and look at it.

In my own school it required two or three weeks to exclude whispering and communication by signs.

The Council Fire was to be held on the great flat rock that overhung the Devil's Punch Bowl; an impressive place indeed to hold a Camp Fire Ceremonial, up there right under the stars, it seemed, with the wind fiddling through the branches all around them and the water whispering to itself below.

The Poet continues: All those which were his fellows but of late (Some better than his value) on the moment Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance, Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear, Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him Drink the free air.

To one who toils early and late in an official Sahara, that the home atmosphere may always be redolent of perfume, I would send a bunch of long-stemmed white and crimson rose-buds, in the midst of which he should find a dainty note whispering, "Dear Fritz: Drink this pure glass of my overflowing June to the health of weans and wife, not forgetting your unforgetful friend."

Brodie and Benny had given over their whispering and came back to the fire, where Brail and the Italian looked up at them sharply.

The love that leads the willing spheres Along the unending track of years, And watches o'er the sparrow's nest, Shall brood above thy winter rest, And raise thee from the dust, to hold Light whisperings with the winds of May; And fill thy spikes with living gold, From Summer's yellow ray.

Her dress was faultless, and she looked so radiantly beautiful, as she stood before her grandmother, that the old lady kissed her fondly, whispering, as she did so, "You are indeed beautiful!"

And if thou sayst thou canst not feel the pains that absence brings, 'Tis that thy heart has never known love's gentle whisperings.

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

" Mrs. Smithers stepped on to the wharf and, taking 'old of my missis by the arm, led her away whispering.

The Tapottes left off whispering, and listened breathlessly.

Even when the air was calm there was apt to be a sound as of wind, for the tenuous, trailing branches brushed lightly together, making a guarded whispering like ghosts.

"In the two back rows we are sorry to say that we have noticed whispering.

Near the house of the wealthy student he observed whisperings and mysterious signals among the neighbors, but not comprehending what they meant, continued serenely on his way and entered the doorway.

It occasioned great whispering and tittering.

Most of his questioning pertained to the I.W.W. And even excited whispering by her father and Jake had no power to interest her.