According to him, everywhere he went people were talking about the film and whistling the songs.

In the centre of the city, people whistled along their own bones though the empty bowl held roses.

It was a more or less automatic process, the Envoy conditioning killing time the way some people whistle through their teeth.

"I think people who say this won't change are whistling past the graveyard," he said.

Sometimes I think you lie like other people whistle.

Some people used to say it only whistled when the wind was from the north, but I can't swear to that, either.

There was a time when people all over whistled, even in comic strips.

Every time I went to serve, the people were whistling.

Presently I realized it was over and people were whistling.

Too many people were whistling the same tune in the same dark.