"Brave boy," he said approvingly, then turned to a girl who whimpered ever so quietly.

A little boy, his face blackened by soot, sat near an old woman who whimpered quietly to herself.

The woman didn't want to let her go and whimpered quietly when Quinn did as Marin asked.

The girl jackknifed into a fetal shrimp-curl on her side, face to knees, whimpering quietly.

Deep inside himself he heard Edmund Rigby's soul whimpering quietly.

One of them took off his coat and maneuvered the dog onto it; the dog whimpered quietly.

Someone in the minstrels' corner was whimpering quietly.

At the mention of her name, Zetha whimpered quietly.

A few feet away, Maya, the matriarch of the clan, whimpered quietly.

At one point she fell asleep, dreamed, and whimpered quietly.