Word: whispered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...same paths of poetry, which are now worn so bare that the tardy straggler finds nothing to reward his journeyings. The Argo has excelled, as all will agree, in these foreign and exotic forms, and has from time to time published verses highly creditable, but we scarcely dare to whisper our opinion that it has gone beyond the bounds of moderation in restricting its effusions to these peculiar forms, which inevitably fall upon the reader, because only certain turns of idea and expression are possible in them, while the simpler old fashioned straight-away measures allow all themes...
...system involves no social meeting whatever with the male students, and the admirable results in the intellectual training of women, and the consequent improvement of the schools wherein many become teachers, have already been incalculable. In the face of the good so easily and smoothly accomplished, there is no whisper of disapproval or even satire in England. Harvard is wealthy, and could have well afforded to follow the dignified and liberal example of the English universities. Instead of that she has only permitted women students to halt at her back door, allowing her professors to assume burdens which she shirks...
...guileless and innocent, stepped into the office of the Co-operative Society the other day, and calling the gentlemanly assistant aside asked in a whisper if he could purchase a literal translation of Livy, vulgarly known as a "trot." Being answered in the affirmative, he requested that it should be carefully wrapped up, and with many an anxious glance around, fearing his wicked purchase had been seen, he slunk away...
...received, undeservedly, we trust, from those of the sons of Alma Mater, who, standing in immediate proximity to us, should have been a force on the right hand and on the left of their brothers to protect their reputation and assert their merit." "Harvard indifference" again, we hear Snodkins whisper! They truly claim, I think, "that the poetico-bombastick style of newspaper eloquence, which has been often and liberally ascribed to college, is as little the defect of our execution, as the object of our ambition." Very bitterly they continue: "The world without cares for nothing but politicks and commerce...
Prof. Dolbear's new telephone is so delicate that a whisper has been distinctly heard through 350 miles of submerged cable...