The child whimpered, and took a hesitant step forward.

After a moment, he realized that the child was whimpering softly into the back of his shoulder.

"You, my chosen people, the first to know the life and the way-" The child whimpered.

Before one visit, he found the child "whimpering under a sofa, full of despair."

The child whimpered a little, then settled against him.

"I was looking for you, Father," the lost child whimpered.

A child whimpered; a man swore softly in the island idiom.

The front child, the girl, glanced behind at her partner and whimpered, then looked wildly back.

A child whimpered, sleeping, and murmured for its mother.

They stood in the darkened building, the children whimpering, the older people trying to comfort the younger ones with their stoic attitude.