1.   She told Antonia about it in a hushed voice the night her friend came to sleep over at her house.

2.   The cars stopped and everyone got out, standing around in little groups, talking in hushed voices.

3.   The kind of order that makes the hushed voices expect little divine intervention.

4.   Theirs was a twilight world of hushed voices, concealed books and illegal exhibitions.

5.   Then came Budapest, the Embassy where people talked in hushed voices.

6.   Sometimes, in hushed voices in the evenings, I heard my mum and the Quigleys talking about money.

7.   Chastened, they settled back in their seats and talked in hushed voices until the train pulled into Reading, where they all got off.

8.   As they wait, they nervously cross out words, add new paragraphs and recite the letters to themselves in hushed voices.

9.   A compact woman with deep brown eyes and a hushed voice, Silvers grew up in Greenville, Tenn., a tobacco town in the Appalachian Mountains.