The dockloaders and pages were frightened and eager for news; barely had the Silver Fin tied up at the jetty than excited whispers arose in a hissing chorus, as every passenger and bargehand was queried.

Heads poked through doorways and windows, whispers arose on the air.

Yet no whisper of dissent arose.

Never the remotest whisper arose in my consciousness that John Barleycorn was the anodyne, that he could lie me along to live.

No dowry was paid-" Again, a whisper of astonishment arose from the gathered women. "

Murmurs and whispers arose behind the shriek.

--yet the whispers invariably arose about some old woman gone simple with age who mumbled something that might have been a curse, or some jealous neighbor who might hold a grudge.

A whisper arose among the train, but by whom first suggested could not be ascertained.

A whisper arose and swept across the square, backward and forward in a natural resonance: "The Roland Zygmont!

A whisper arose in the courtroom.