1 "Lady Narborough," he whispered.
2 "Come away, Jim; come away," she whispered.
3 "Don't mind him, my dear," whispered Lady Agatha.
4 "I think it is most unkind of her, my dear," she whispered.
5 "Nonsense, Jim," she whispered, stroking the sleeve of his coat.
6 "Shut the door behind you," he whispered, as he placed the lamp on the table.
7 Yet these whispered scandals only increased in the eyes of many his strange and dangerous charm.
8 Inside, in the servants' part of the house, the half-clad domestics were talking in low whispers to each other.
9 Her white hands were moving daintily among the cups, and her full red lips were smiling at something that Dorian had whispered to her.
10 A chance phrase that he had heard at the theatre, a whispered sneer that had reached his ears one night as he waited at the stage-door, had set loose a train of horrible thoughts.
11 And yet I see you very seldom, and you never come down to the studio now, and when I am away from you, and I hear all these hideous things that people are whispering about you, I don't know what to say.
12 As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one of them and listen to men and women whispering through the worn grating the true story of their lives.
13 Dorian Gray glanced at the picture, and suddenly an uncontrollable feeling of hatred for Basil Hallward came over him, as though it had been suggested to him by the image on the canvas, whispered into his ear by those grinning lips.
14 I remember her bringing me up to a truculent and red-faced old gentleman covered all over with orders and ribbons, and hissing into my ear, in a tragic whisper which must have been perfectly audible to everybody in the room, the most astounding details.
15 The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.
16 His extraordinary absences became notorious, and, when he used to reappear again in society, men would whisper to each other in corners, or pass him with a sneer, or look at him with cold searching eyes, as though they were determined to discover his secret.