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Whisper   /wˈɪspər/  /hwˈɪspər/   Listen
Whisper

noun
1.
Speaking softly without vibration of the vocal cords.  Synonyms: susurration, voicelessness, whispering.
2.
A light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind.  Synonyms: rustle, rustling, whispering.
verb
(past & past part. whispered; pres. part. whispering)
1.
Speak softly; in a low voice.



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"Whisper" Quotes from Famous Books



... there any Man who had any time for Her. So she led a lonely Life, dreaming of the One—the Ideal. He was a big and pensive Literary Man, wearing a Prince Albert coat, a neat Derby Hat and godlike Whiskers. When He came he would enfold Her in his Arms and whisper ...
— Fables in Slang • George Ade
... shouting it louder and louder in a sort of ecstasy, and heaving heavy stones to attract their attention. We must have become quite crazy, for my throat suddenly gave out, and I could only speak in an absurd whisper.... Oh, what ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... been here a fortnight," said the woman in a whisper, "and we can't get him to take any interest in anything—I don't know what we're going ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... blinder every hour, Mildred. You were always out of my reach, but I have kept my eyes raised toward you just the same, and I have never looked aside, never faltered." He paused to feast his eyes upon her, and then in a half-whisper finished, "Oh, my ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... it is no little consolation to us to feel, as we surge and sway in the darkness, that over there in the German lines a Saxon and a Prussian private, irretrievably jammed together in a narrow communication trench, are consigning one another to perdition in just the same husky whisper as that employed by Private Mucklewame and his "opposite number" in the regiment which has ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay


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