I expected to hear back from them but I never heard a 'whisper'. [=I never heard from them again]
“I've had more than I can stand,” she complained in a 'stage whisper'.
I couldn't hear what they were saying because they were 'whispering'.
(..) Should any free soul come across that place... ...in all the countless centuries yet to be... ...may all our voices... ...whisper to you from the ageless stones. Go tell the Spartans, passerby... ...that here, by Spartan law, we lie. And so my king died... (..)2006 300