One of the other brakemen whispered to the man under the gun.
"You're really here," he said in a low voice, as though we had to whisper under my roof.
"You also have a chance to get thoroughly killed," she whispered under her breath.
"I may not have that kind of time," Mary whispered under her breath.
But for room itself seemed safer to whisper under blankets.
"Then tell me the truth now," she whispered under her breath.
I whispered her name under my breath, but he heard me.
Here was a man who whispered terrible, dark things about himself under his breath.
"There's not much wrong with you now," George whispered under his breath.
Imagine what it would have heard, if the news were whispered under its branches.