1.   His voice had sunk to a conspiratorial whisper.

2.   Gone is the era when the sharpest horseplayers on the mezzanine were distinguished by their plaid coats, green eyeshades, cigar-smoke aura and conspiratorial whispers.

3.   Jacobs lowers his voice to a conspiratorial whisper.

4.   Occasionally he dramatically lowers his voice to a hissing conspiratorial whisper.

5.   With darting eyes and a conspiratorial whisper, an anxious Burmese merchant agreed to lead a prospective customer to the source of this newly illicit drug.

6.   But lowering his voice to a conspiratorial whisper honed over decades of Soviet domination, he nodded toward the Belarusian border.

7.   Livan Hernandez walked through the Florida Marlins clubhouse passing out cigars in a conspiratorial whisper.

8.   The great comedown unfolded when one of the maids sidled into my room and spoke to me in a conspiratorial whisper.