A low whimpering from somewhere in the back of the house.

He tells Question to stop the whimpering and be a man.

There was no answer except the whimpering of the dog.

There was a whimpering; then the voice of the engineer came.

Bell heard a sound that seemed like the whimpering of a dog.

The whimpering was so clear as to seem close, but she knew it wasn't.

All we could hear was the soft whimpering of the animal in pain.

She bit her tongue to keep the fearful whimpering inside.

Then the whimpering, the whining, for days - could it have been a week?

Then I heard a soft hopeless whimpering and ran to it.

Below, except for the whimpering of Brick, all was silent.

The silence was broken only by the whimpering of the poor dogs.

I did not want the pain so dispersed as to cause mere whimpering.

No answer came back, other than a slight whimpering.

If his orders had been to release him, why the talk about no whimpering and whining?

So much more enjoyable than that whimpering, broken thing he'd sampled first.

My voice came out breathy from the strain, but it was clear, no whimpering.

In a crisis situation such as this, that would be better than a whimpering, cowed first officer.

"I can't simply let a little whimpering be the signal to throw the reporters out."

From above came the continued scratching against the door and a kind of mewling whimpering.

She had to stop for the moans, for they seemed the whimpering of a child.

There was no immediate answer from the armory, only the continued soft whimpering of the boy.

A very faint whimpering or squeaking, which seemed unconscious, came out of him.

"I've been listening to his miserable whimpering long enough."

Then, with a whimpering cry, she was in his arms.

I let out one last whimpering cry as he stepped forward to begin.

They had gone only twenty yards when there was a whimpering cry of "Ellie!"

No more whimpering confessions extracted under torture for him.

There was a rustling flurry of motion and a loud whimpering cry.

From somewhere through the smoke she heard a far-off fretful whimpering cry.

With a whimpering cry, Ulf had charged the leading monster.

Beside him Chai gave a sudden whimpering cry, and then she was gone.

Her head twisted on the rough truck seat, a whimpering cry tearing from her.

With a whimpering cry, Jabbar ran away, vanishing into the next cave.

With a whimpering cry, the creature dissolved.

I may not be a whimpering Greek noblewoman any longer, but I'm hardly in the same condition as your soldiers.

He heard Lennie's whimpering cry and wheeled about.

A whimpering cry shook the mage's body, more dreadful to hear than his screams of agony.

But she shaped those emotions, made it into a whimpering cry that went on and on and on.

A whimpering cry escaped her mouth as he thrust one final time deep within her, his seed erupting from him, filling her.

And because of his very whimpering docility, Brazee knew he could count on Estes to carry out his deadly mission.

Around 3 to 6 weeks of age, babies use different cries to communicate, such as a shrill cry for pain or a whimpering cry for fatigue.

Perhaps overcome by the sight of so much meat, the smallest duck-dog gave a tiny whimpering cry and ran between the legs of its guardian to the water.

Such was the expression of demand upon his hairy face that the very small Farree gave a tiny whimpering cry and waited helplessly for a blow to follow.

My whimpering schoolgirl slips off my knee and kneels between my thighs, closes her eyes tightly and quite comically opens her mouth as widely as she can.

Arthur heard the slight rustle as Ford Prefect raised his Zap gun to his shoulder, and the slight whimpering cough as Slartibartfast raised his.

This was another world again from the squalor of the docks, the raucous clamor of the souk, the beggars and half-blind whimpering children, and the mounds of rotting fruit.

Mei crept closer with a small whimpering cry; Qian turned on her, hissing, but Mei only ducked down submissively and offered no target, coiling anxiously against a stand of trees to watch more closely.

As far as Stan could remember, this baby looked pretty much the same as that long-ago one: eyes screwed tightly shut, mouth closed except for the occasional little whimpering cry, scalp bald, fingers made into tiny fists.

Then he heard the sound of a single child whimpering.

You should know your father whimpered like a child at the end.

She was hard put to keep herself from whimpering like a child.

But you must stop whimpering and do as I say.

"Hold still and stop whimpering like a two year old."

I've got no will of my own, he whimpered deep within himself.

But in another minute he was probably going to start whimpering.

He looked at the body on the stage and whimpered.

The dog whimpered and she set him on the ground.

She whimpered again, and this time I just let her get on with it.

Her next whimpered, broken words cut him to the heart.

The new religion had turned the people into whimpering old women.

The soldiers moved back from the king, who was whimpering on the floor.

If he whimpered, it might have been pain and not fear.

He looked at the door again and actually whimpered once, very quietly.

I covered my mouth with a hand to keep from whimpering again.

Once she tried, whimpering, to press herself against her master.

Even the babies only whimpered a little, now and then.

He whimpered, then began to pull himself up, the effort almost beyond him.

The man froze in place, and seemed to be whimpering.

The child in the sack on the mother's back whimpered.

The two women whimpered, looking up, blinking against the light.

The woman put down her head even more, whimpering, trembling.

Becky whimpered many times in the middle of the night.

I whimpered, and tried to curl up around my left side.

But our story was not to end with a whimper.

He heard the little whimper from his son and turned around.

Not so much as a whimper came back to him.

So how did it happen, with or without a whimper?

He was trying to say something, but the words came out as small whimpers.

She was a girl you could beat without getting a whimper out of her.

There must have been something in my look because his answer came out as a kind of whimper.

She made not a whimper, but he understood her game.

A moment later the girl gave a soft little whimper.

She tried to sound light, funny, but her words were more like a whimper.

When my daughter called her, she answered with a whimper.

Almost immediately she heard the whimper of the baby already born.

He managed not to whimper, but it was a close call.

Down he went without a whimper, stretched out on the ground.

Her voice had a whimper in it, and he felt sick.

On your life, not so much as the ghost of a whimper!

Soon she was doing a little whimper with each stroke.

All she could do was stare at them, and whimper.

But now the war cry is beginning to sound more like a whimper.

He gave out a little whimper and then a scream.

She would rather go out with a bang than a whimper.

The death of America would not come with a bang or a whimper.

She could hear the whimper in her voice but felt no embarrassment.

Then there was the sound of a blow, and a whimper.

Others say it could drag on for weeks more and end with a whimper.