Suffering to beat the band, but not a whimper out of him.
But never a whimper out of him from first to last.
For the moment she came from under the spell of her peculiar trait--her power to do without whimper or vain gesture of revolt the inevitable thing, whatever it was.
Like the soughing of the storm above the whimper of the tortured leaves the stentorian snorings of two of the sleepers resounded above the noise of the mosquitoes.
But not so much as a whimper escaped from Polly Ann.
Tho' the barrister sought my ear in many matters, I never heard a whimper out of him on this score.
If he got wiped out, he would neither whimper nor whine--he would simply swallow his medicine.
Mrs. Challenger at last, clinging with a whimper to her husband's arm.
Even Summerlee and Challenger were crushed, and we heard nothing of our companions behind us save an occasional whimper from the lady.
Moreover, to the better account, Clotilde's English friend had sent him the lines addressed to her, in which the writer dwelt on her love of him with a whimper of the voice of love.
Now, when he was a second time forsaking her, his praise of her constancy wore the painful ludicrousness of the look of a whimper on the face.
Men up above in the tribunes held their breath; some women began to whimperwith excitement.
An infant thus affected sleeps even more than new-born infants usually do; its voice is very feeble, and rather a whimper than a cry.
It breathes, but does so imperfectly, so that air does not enter all the smaller air-cells; and its voice is a whimper rather than a cry.
I rede ye beware of the Carrasdoo men As ye come up the wold; I rede ye beware of the haunted glen-- But a fretful whimper would interrupt the singer.
Then, her own confused emotion being strange and new to her, she sought refuge with a whimper in her old sullenness.
She jumped up at his chest giving a long tremulous whimper of welcome, and then ran ahead straight to the nest in the grass.
She struggled a little under the rough treatment, and there was a protesting whimper when we tugged; but she did not let out one cry under all the pain.
Bullcott, who, like many another person capable of doing any wrong, was quick to whimper on supposing himself injured.
The great joy of getting out to camp at last was too fresh to extract one word, one whimper of fear from under the bedding.
She was lingering, then, upon a certain dark threshold which she would have crossed very gladly but for voices that held her back; the prattle of a child, the thin, helpless whimper of a baby.
It came again; the fretful whimperof a sleepy child.
It was the first time Baree had heard his name, and there was something so soft and assuring in the sound of it that in spite of himself the dog in him responded to it in a whimper that just reached the Willow's ears.
It was the same whimperwaked me a second time, too prolonged to be an owl's complaint, and I sat upright to listen.
And I heard close at hand the call of an owl, as like the whimper of a child as ever howlet's vesper mocked.
The young man said that the turtle was the first to return, but that he must make good his boast that nothing could make him whimper if he should lose.
Carroll did not speak, but he raised his hand and pointed to the hall with an upward motion for the stairs, and Eddy went, with a faint whimper of remonstrance.
She felt in her heart that a whimper from her little brother would be more than she herself could bear, and would also be more culpable than the offence for which he was being chastised.
For the first time there was a whimper in his throat; but it was not the whimper of fear, nor of pain, but of outrage, and of desire to continue the battle which he struggled to control at Skipper's behest.
And when he parted from what had been and which had ceased to be, not like the bush dogs did he whimper and run.
And then, in the loneliness of the dark, on the heaving breast of the sea that he recognized as one more of the eternal enemies, he began to whimper and cry plaintively like a lost child.
For, unlike the other dogs, he would not howl or whimper his pain.
Every muscle in the creature's powerful body was set quivering, and a strange, half pathetic, half savage whimper escaped its twitching nostrils.
Finally the dog's great head was lifted, its muzzle was thrown high into the air, and the whimper was changed into a long-drawn-out howl of amazing piteousness.
At those times Hero would lick Stubby's face and whimper a little love whimper and such were the workings of Stubby's heart and mind that that made him of quite as much account as if he really had chased the chickens.
The whimper grew to a cry which Bud's rude rocking back and forth on the box before the fireplace could not still.
He began to whimper and look seekingly around the little cabin.
His intensity filled her with this knowledge and sent her shrinking against the wall of the cabin, a hand half raised to her cheek, trembling, wanting to whimper for mercy.
