And he heard the dry frightened whisper of the earth as the drought passed over it.

When she spoke again, it was in a frightened whisper.

They talked in frightened whispers of seeing friends and relatives clubbed or hacked to death.

Brother and sister sat together on the ground, talking in quiet, frightened whispers, their eyes darting up at him.

When they had gotten him to sleep, however, they sat by the kitchen fire and talked it over in frightened whispers.

In a frightened whisper, she whispered, "You mean the others are down here?"

"Take it," the shopkeeper said in a frightened whisper.

We left the skeleton behind, but now the pirates kept together and talked in frightened whispers.

Omi's mother asked in a frightened whisper from inside the house.

"I'm cutting you free, monster," a frightened whisper told him above the sawing.