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Quotes About Whimpering

I, too, have been bored to whimpering stage by others with reminiscent fish to fry, and oh! how they fry it! and with what exclamations and sizzling!
~ Rachel Ferguson
They didn't ... and by the end of the campaign, Bush was well known as a worm, a weanling woodlouse, a weedy wort in the garden of politics, a wan, whimpering ... well, it was war.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
At any point, if she stopped crying or subsided to mild whimpering between checks, they were not to go back in:
~ Richard Ferber
She tumbles into a corner of the terrace and cowers there, whimpering, pale and terrified, as the caretaker's son, breathing heavily, back stooped and buttocks tensed, circles her, prepared to spring.
~ Robert Coover
BY THE time Stirling and the lead guard had rounded the final bend from the jungle to the plantation house clearing, two other guards had simply dropped where they stood, shit themselves, and rocked back and forth, whimpering in pain.
~ Amy Lane
Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro— And what should they know of England who only England know? The English Flag, Stanza 1 (1891)
~ Rudyard Kipling
You manage the place?" He smiled. "Something like that." Someone brought a stretcher. The dark-complected guy was gritting his teeth and whimpering. Someone admonished him, "Urusei na! Gaman shiro!" Shut up! Take the pain!
~ Barry Eisler
Not in a dog's age. Not since that Dorothy. And you and the others. Did Dorothy ever stop whimpering so? She'll grow up to require the convent, mark my words. Or a husband with a good strong backhand. Her fanny wants spanking badly.
~ Gregory Maguire
The dog was still whimpering. But now Goldberg thought that maybe he heard another sound too, another whimpering maybe, or something worse, underneath the first—a terrible, pain-stricken noise so nonhuman that paradoxically it could only come from another human being. "Deputy Chief Goldberg?" He swallowed and dived in. "There's this lawyer named Harry Sutton.…
~ Harlan Coben
I kept expecting him to release the grip or let up a bit. He didn't. I started making small whimpering sounds. But he held on, his expression one of boredom. The
~ Harlan Coben
Neville did a remarkable simulation of running in fourteen directions at once, whimpering, screeching, and snapping his teeth. The seder stopped
~ Herman Wouk
Presently Ray was panting like a little dog, and her whimpering had a pitiful note in it that made Mildred want to cry out against the injustice that one so small, so helpless, should have to bear such agony. But she sat perfectly still, not distracting by so much as a movement the attention of those on whom Ray's chance depended.
~ James M. Cain
But now he was little more than a whimpering oyster led to be devoured on the sands of a Southern sea by the artful walrus, Circumstance, and the implacable carpenter, Fate.
~ O. Henry
little more than a whimpering oyster led to be devoured on the sands of a Southern sea by the artful walrus, Circumstance, and the implacable carpenter, Fate.
~ O. Henry
I watched as Brian led Ivan to a dental chair, which was bolted to the floor and apparently complete with the hydraulic lifting function. It had also been slightly modified with a set of metal-mesh restraints for hands, feet, chest, and head, and these my brother fastened carefully onto our guest, whistling tunelessly the while, not quite loud enough to cover the sound of Ivan's nasty wet whimpering.
~ Jeff Lindsay
An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable
~ Colin Falconer
And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP! But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop. -- The Desolation of Tolkien
~ John C. Wright
I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself
~ Jackie Kay
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear
~ Hunter S. Thompson
now the wind that had raged round the castle had died down to a low moaning in the pine trees—a whimpering of time-worn agony.
~ Unknown