A tiny, niggling voice told him it would be dangerous to relax too much, but the idea seemed meaningless.

But a niggling little voice inside her head whispered,and do you still believe there are fairies hiding under mushrooms, too?

Although I passed the iron door every day (and the niggling voice persisted), what was behind it wasn't important to me, and neither were the answers to the dozen or so questions that Joshua and I should have put to our generous master.

But you are now the lady of this manor, chided a niggling little voice in her mind.

A last niggling voice in her mind pointed out that he faced considerable difficulty in securing the Suiza place in the Landsmen's Guild if she hadn't cooperated, but she suppressed it.

That niggling little voice of conscience?

Many, like Ms. Madland or Michael Kimmelman, chief art critic of The New York Times, had once seriously considered a music career and were now revisiting that desire, perhaps to retaste its pleasures and perhaps to help silence that niggling inner voice asking about what might have been.

A tiny, niggling voice in his head told him he was wasting his time and energy playing silly games.

That niggling voice in thel back of the mind that says 'Do we all look like a] bunch of utter gits?'

The woman had been nothing but helpful, but it was early days yet, and sometimes a niggling voice whispered in the back of Elayne's head.