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“What about, now?” gayly demanded Sybil, who felt not the slightest degree of alarm on account of Miss Tabby, knowing that lady to be a constitutional and habitual whimperer.

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Miss Tabby is our housekeeper; the best creature, but the greatest whimperer in existence.

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

With a series of gurgles and laps the consoling draft was quickly consumed and the whimperer left by this double ministration in a state of placid contentment.

From Rose of Old Harpeth by Daviess, Maria Thompson

Dowson was, let us say not mockingly, the boyish whimperer in song.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden

Man who tames the lion, harnesses the winds, makes a whimperer of steam and cowers the lightning—this same vainglorious, triumphant man is simply helpless in the presence of a woman's tears!

From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Bell, Robert E.