The man whispered his answer, as if he was talking inside a church.

Such, at least, was the story that men whispered to each other.

A man whispered to his child and pointed at the television.

"I have to study," she said, trying to remember the last time she'd heard a man whisper her name in the dark.

"The Americans," the young man whispered, almost as if he were talking to himself.

"There must be at least three or four hundred of them," whispered the man next to me.

Men whispered, passing her words back to those in the hall.

No one took any notice of the two men whispering in back.

"One for each of us," the short man whispered aside to his friend.

The men who were assisting him whispered while they worked.