whistling

My friend the political scientist Tom Schaller said all this back in 2008, in his book Whistling Past Dixie.

When my first novel, Whistling in the Dark, was declared a breakout hit and New York Times bestseller, I was utterly bowled over.

They called him Jolly because he was always happy, singing and whistling.

I knew every volume by its colour and examined them all, passing slowly around the library and whistling to keep up my spirits.

How could this happen to a teenager, guilty of just a little whistling, a little music in the wind?

He went off whistling, and Isabel raised her hand and looked at it meditatively; his own had been unexpectedly warm and magnetic.

Had they been light I should have kept on whistling in that careless way; but now I looked up, startled.

Whistling over his task, Mr. Chester soon evolved the following "Want Ad."

He went whistling along, therefore, until his steps were suddenly and violently arrested.

In January, 1899, a Spanish gunboat silently entered the port without the customary whistling and firing of salute.