While I lay up there watching I heard whispering voices and the entrance was blocked.
The four other members of the party were now whispering together some distance away.
I guess we've got one already," Tommy observed, whisperingthe words excitedly in his chum's ear.
Although the boys could not hear a word they were saying, they understood very well what all the whisperingwas about.
And Birds and Flowers once more to greet, My last year's Friends together: My thoughts they all by turns employ; A whispering Leaf is now my joy, And then a Bird will be the toy That doth my fancy tether.
So would I write, haply not unhearing of the divine and rightly whispering Voice," etc.
When she had gone about a third of the distance she heard whispering which sounded mysterious and startling from an evident effort made to suppress it.
There was a lot of mysteriouswhispering and scuffling round by the light of a couple of dirty greasy bits of candle.
She was little more than a child then, intensely sensitive; and when she sat in the old bark school she fancied that the other children were thinking or whispering to each other, "Her brother's in prison!
All about him was the sweetness and mystic whispering of new life just awakening.
Then came the silence--a few seconds of it--while in the north gathered swiftly the whispering rumble of a still greater force.
This restlessness was like the ghostly pulse of a great living body, still for a time, then moving, hiding, whisperingbetween the clouds in the sky and the deeper shadowed earth below.
More than life," he answered, and as he spoke he was watching Peter, questing the soft wind that came whispering from the south.
As she listened, and stared up at the smoke hole, strange spirits were whispering to her, and Yellow Bird's blood ran a little faster and her eyes grew bigger and brighter in the darkness.
And she was the old Nada again, hugging his shaggy head in her arms, and whispering to him in the old, excited way.
For several minutes he stood thus, and then the whispering voices at the window ceased and he heard his master retreating very quietly through the night.
And in the darkness and tumult the Missioner stood, a little gray man of tragedy, of deeply buried secrets, a man of prayer and of faith in God--his heart whispering for guidance and mercy as he waited.
The whispering still went on--but it seemed like a screaming of vultures now in Jimmie Dale's ears, as the words came to him.
It was as though she were whispering some amazing thing of unbelievable joy to herself.
Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a peep at the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the echo in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled view from his forehead.
The possession of this unknown and invaluable fact brings them together, whispering and conspiring, at every possible moment.
Then Conscience, which gets angry if disregarded, took to whispering more loudly, and presently he heard.
Gentle breezes sighed through the leafy trees soft as the first whispering of young love, giving them a trembling motion, like a bashful maiden as she blushingly listens to it.
It is best so," continued she; "Even now the spirit of my dear brother seems hovering over me, whispering of the spirit land.
Sometimes in the still noon, when the leaves of spring bud upon the whispering woods, I peer forth from my rocky lair, and startle the peasant with my strange voice and stranger shape.
There was no motion of the boat, and in the momentary suspense a quiet prevailed, in which those grotesque shapes of disarray crept noiselessly round whispering panic-stricken conjectures.
The man fed on without noticing them, except now and then to utter a growl that silenced the whispering and giggling for a moment.
A pause, and whispering followed, and again all appeared to be quiet.
I lay awake, it might be for two hours, when I heard the sound of feet, and then a whispering under the window, and shortly afterwards a loud knocking at the door, which they were attempting to burst open.
I'll be plain, And let them wince who are whispering in the dark.
They stood knee-deep among the whispering ferns, And said good-bye.
Yet I found Even in the dark, her tears against my face, Her thin soft childish arms around my neck, And her voice whispering .
O pitiful Pitiful human hearts that must deny Their own unfolding heavens, for one light word Twisted by whispering malice.
Next day, through whispering aisles of palm we rode Up to the foot-hills, dreaming desert-hills That to assuage their own delicious drought Had set each tawny sun-kissed slope ablaze With peach and orange orchards.
Up to that whispering glade of ferns he sped, At the first wink of Hesperus.
As she walked, there was heard the whispering rustle of the Feminine; that sound indefinable, which creeps upon man's unwitting senses and enslaves him, he knows not how or when or why.
A waiter was filling her glass with champagne, Mortlake was whispering to her confidentially across the corner of the table.
She and Jimmy had so often ridden its impossible back together; this deserted room was full of Jimmy and her mother--to her sad heart it was peopled with ghost faces, and whispering voices that would never come any more.
She did not want to make things harder for him than was absolutely necessary; and yet she clung fast to her pride--the pride that seemed to be whispering to her to refuse--not to give in to him.
It is a perfect afternoon, with warm sunshine, and a pleasant breeze whispering and sighing in the fir-trees.
We see the great high road to Peking, raised on a mud embankment, that now and again keeps company with the river; it is bordered here with an avenue of whispering willows, and against the orange sunset come such picturesque figures along it.
We awoke to a lovely spring morning, with the breeze whispering amongst the trees, and the Union Jack flapping gently against the flagstaff in Government House garden.
His praise in softer notes declare, Each whispering breeze of yielding air, And breathe it to the soul.
On sunny days he paced to and fro under the pines, the many windows of his mind opened to the studies in light and shade and his soul attuned to the music of the drifting winds and the whispering trees.
The "Toombs oak" still stood on the college grounds, and it may be that its whispering leaves brought to the youthful poet messages of patriotism which they had garnered from the lips of the embryonic Georgia politician.
