Whimpering

Examples

• My love would have been devoted--would have trod your paltry whimpering under foot! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She was wiping the dead face carefully, and murmuring, almost whimpering, very softly: 'Poor Mr Crich! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Let us respect Amelia and her mamma whispering and whimpering and laughing and crying in the parlour and the twilight. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr Venus, always in exceedingly low spirits and making whimpering sounds, peers about for the stuffed canary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then, whimpering again, and at intervals biting the curls, and stopping to look how much was bitten off, 'It's a shame! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• No, don't starve me,' he urged, whimpering. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She has been whimpering half a dozen times, at the very notion of it, already to me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I heard them chattering and whimpering together in the little woman's chamber. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It would wail in its cradle all night long--not screaming heartily like any other child, but whimpering and moaning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She is still whimpering after that gaby of a husband--dead (and served right! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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