"Muttering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to hear the plates removed to tell you how frightened we are at something we hear at the back-door. It seems like robbers muttering; but when I look out ...
— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy
... thinking we had been abed together eleven years before. Nay, that was a secret which, as it happened, Amy herself did not know. Amy grinned and made faces, as if she had been pleased; but it came out in so many words, when he was not by, the sum of her mumbling and muttering was, that this should have been done ten or a dozen years before; that it would signify little now; that was to say, in short, that her mistress was pretty near fifty, and too old to have any children. I chid ...
— The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) • Daniel Defoe
... reef, near at hand. The mate used great care, therefore, to make no noise. There was the distant object, and he set it by a bright star, that wanted about an hour before it would sink beneath the horizon. That star was his beacon, and muttering a few words in earnest prayer, the young man threw his body forward, and left the wreck, ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... While thus muttering, the witch had filled a fresh pipe of tobacco, and held the stem between her fingers, as doubtful whether to thrust it into ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 • Various
... bustle in your town this evening?' asked Geraint, first of one person and then of another. But they hurried past him, muttering, 'The Sparrow-hawk has his tournament ...
— Stories of King Arthur's Knights - Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor • Mary MacGregor
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