How To Use Murmur In A Sentence

  • Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
  • The paramedic said he was still alive, moving his hand and murmuring something. Times, Sunday Times
  • During the night two young partisans sat on guard at the bedroom door listening to murmured conversation. Whicker's War
  • `Then apparently James needs no more stiffening in his collar," Aubrey murmured. THE LAST RAVEN
  • It still whispered about, prowling in the back of his consciousness, murmuring darkly even though his body was slack with well-satisfied relief. Captured by Moonlight
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  • There was just one moment," he murmured ruminatingly, -- The Mischief Maker
  • Here a general murmur arose, and the teacher, opening her lips for the first time, ejaculated — “Silence, mesdemoiselles!” The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Clear-cut clinical evidence of a hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus should be present, such as respiratory distress, a continuous murmur, a hyperactive precordium, cardiomegaly and pulmonary plethora on chest x-ray. THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute
  • It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
  • He would murmur a quiet corrective now and then, or insert an informative note, but never parade his learning.
  • “Heavens to Betsy,” Helga murmured, cantilevering her head out sideways over her body to survey the damage. Bootstraps
  • It was about 10 o'clock when a murmur went through the crowd as the low drone of an aircraft was heard in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
  • She whispered, but Will murmured in an undertone for her to be quiet.
  • It was a cavern in the side of a mountain, overshadowed with palm trees, at such a distance from the cataract that nothing more was heard than a gentle uniform murmur, such as composes the mind to pensive meditation, especially when it was assisted by the wind whistling among the branches. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
  • The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘I still haven't had the pleasure of knowing your name,’ she murmured in a husky voice.
  • Livy (XXXII 22 1) has a _murmur_ of mingled praise and dissent following a speech: '_murmur_ ortum aliorum cum adsensu, aliorum inclementer adsentientes increpantium'. The Last Poems of Ovid
  • The murmuring, fluttering sounds of the crowd echoed off the high ceilings and stone arches of the chapel.
  • Bruttia Sicanium circumspicit ora Pelorum? quid primum mediumue canam, quo fine quiescam? auratasne trabis an Mauros undique postis35 an picturata lucentia marmora uena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas? huc oculis, huc mente trahor. uenerabile dicam lucorum senium? te, quae uada fluminis infra cernis, an ad siluas quae respicis, aula, tacentis, 40 qua tibi tuta quies offensaque turbine nullo nox silet et pigros inuitant murmura somnos? an quae graminea suscepta crepidine fumant balnea et impositum riuis algentibus ignem? quaque uaporiferis iunctus fornacibus amnis45 ridet anhelantis uicino flumine nymphas? uidi artis ueterumque manus uariisque metalla uiua modis. labor est auri memorare figuras aut ebur aut dignas digitis contingere gemmas; quicquid et argento primum uel in aere minori50 lusit et enormis manus est experta colossos. dum uagor aspectu uisusque per omnia duco, calcabam necopinus opes. nam splendor ab alto defluus et nitidum referentes aera testae monstrauere solum; uarias ubi picta per artis55 gaudet humus superatque nouis asarota figuris: expauere gradus. A Villa at Tibur
  • Adding to the mesmerizing murmur of the flowing water, the sounds of birds singing and cows mooing left one feeling totally at peace.
  • Then she pressed herself closer to him, murmuring something in Gaelic, and his expression dissolved in shock. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • There was a general murmur and Guilio Orsini grinned and raked in his winnings. THE KEYS OF HELL
  • She moved through the crowd, dodging elbows, murmuring apologies, aware of a growing panic inside.
  • There was murmuring behind Myra and a snicker or two in front. TOGETHER ALONE
  • The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. Times, Sunday Times
  • O longum memoranda dies! quae mente reporto gaudia, quam lassos per tot miracula uisus! ingenium quam mite solo! quae forma beatis15 ante manus artemque locis! non largius usquam indulsit natura sibi. nemora alta citatis incubuere uadis; fallax responsat imago frondibus, et longas eadem fugit umbra per undas. ipse Anien (miranda fides) infraque superque20 spumeus hic tumidam rabiem saxosaque ponit murmura, ceu placidi ueritus turbare Vopisci A Villa at Tibur
  • As no other person, She had the same feelings as Christ, unmurmuringly bearing the grief of a mother when She saw Her Son persecuted and suffering.
  • To my surprise, Mrs Svoboda opened her eyes and murmured back,'My beautiful Troy.'
  • The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a murmur of assent from all the career women present. Times, Sunday Times
  • Poluski's quip; but that fleeting glimpse had thrilled her with subtle recognition of something grasped yet elusive, of a knowledge that trembled on the lip of discovery, like a half remembered word murmuring in the brain but unable to make itself heard. A Son of the Immortals
  • He gave a little murmur of relief.
  • Above hung the thymy hill where dry grasses and bracken murmured or screamed in the wind.
  • Tight as any herring shoal or starling murmuration, they darted this way and that before melting into the naked woods. Times, Sunday Times
  • Slowly he recovered his poise enough to murmur.
  • I stood there for a long time watching her as she breathed and snuffled and murmured occasionally. THE EXECUTION
  • The crowd murmured in appreciation.
  • `Called PVS ," Mr Khan murmured, turning his eyes apotropaically to the ceiling. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again. Times, Sunday Times
  • A murmur of excitement rose from the audience.
  • With some kinds of solo song, or even operatic aria, the accompaniment should be a mere background murmur.
  • Because as soon as you step in, you become aware of a huge sea of noise stretching away before you: whispers, murmurs, bangs, shouts, swearing, poems, confessions, exhortations.
  • New shoals arrived to join the murmuration forming high above our heads. Times, Sunday Times
  • The noises of the performance were now a distant murmur, but other than that it was completely silent.
  • The guests continued to chitchat through the meal, the conversation lulling to a dull murmur near the middle as they became full and rather sleepy.
  • ‘We'll chuck your things in my room,’ Alex murmured as he began walking up the stairs to the second floor.
  • Their applause turned to murmuring; their smiles turned into sullen looks. Christianity Today
  • During the night two young partisans sat on guard at the bedroom door listening to murmured conversation. Whicker's War
  • As each leader announced a portion of the sentence, loud murmurs of approval rose from the throng. Christianity Today
  • Reckon yo 'hain't gwine ter fergit I paid five fer de table," murmured this meek son of Africa. The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives
  • A more immediately evident reference to the goat-being sequence is in Joyce's use of ‘hither and thither’ to indicate a murmurous, tactile speech-act.
  • Loud gasps and quiet, anxious murmurs ripple through the lunch crowd.
  • She answered in a faint murmur.
  • A murmur is the sound of blood being pumped through the heart's chambers and valves.
  • ‘Your Grace,’ I murmured, curtsying to Cameron.
  • I stood inthralled until, even as he was talking, the clock struck three, when he rose up, and moving slowly across the floor, barely visible, murmured regretfully that he must be off, with which he faded away down the back stairs. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
  • And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time, these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves, especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons. An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
  • With some kinds of solo song, or even operatic aria, the accompaniment should be a mere background murmur.
  • Anthony threw himself back in his chair as the delicate tinkling began to pour out and overscore the soft cooing of a pigeon on the roofs somewhere and the murmur of bees through the open window. By What Authority?
  • "Vanilla," she murmured, taking one to taste. "Mm, delicious."
  • From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again. Times, Sunday Times
  • He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered. Underworld
  • Apart from these birds, however, we found nothing else but a lone Winter Wren murmuring softly in the brush.
  • The young woman's attack raises a murmur of approval from the other women in the room.
  • Reading is memorized with the aid of murmur, mouthing the words subvocally as one turns the text over in one's memory; both Quintilian and Martianus Capella stress how murmur accompanies meditation. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • An ominous murmur rippled through the crowd and many turned to examine their neighbors.
  • After the word chicanery there was a growing noise, half of murmurs and half of hisses, while four persons started up at once -- Mr. Hawley, Middlemarch
  • A sinner so signally lov'd, -- and hearing my Mother, her eyes brimming with tears and her alabastrine fingers tightly locked together, murmur in unconscious repetition: Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
  • There was a murmured exchange in the chamber, then the door was pushed wide and a lean, dark-visaged man stepped onto the landing followed by a much burlier companion who commanded brusquely, “Allons-y.” A Wicked Gentleman
  • The man grinned, then reached out, gently touching Lexa's shoulders with both hands, and murmured, in a sing-song voice.
  • Melvin approached from behind her, and murmured a polite greeting.
  • The air was luminous; a faint south wind murmured in the pine tops.
  • Only slight murmuring could be heard from the spectators.
  • He has gone deep inside himself, his voice a low murmuring grumble. Times, Sunday Times
  • A slight murmur of laughter rippled through them.
  • I learned to feel the land in a new way, to hear its murmurs, to shepherd its resources, to commune with its vastness. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • I heard both murmurs of approval and mutters of discontent.
  • In high school, I scrawled lyrics in my physics workbook, murmuring the lines.
  • The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed. III.4
  • There is a murmuring of applause and the players leave the field to the sound of nightingale song from the darkening sky. Fats, Nutrition and Health
  • The service itself passed in a blur of kindly faces, murmured condolences and ecclesiastic efficiency.
  • She responded to the long, artful caress with a low, murmurous moan. ALL ABOUT LOVE
  • After that psychological barrier was passed, the remaining scrambles and squeezes were negotiated with relative ease, and any mutinous murmurs were thankfully subdued.
  • Distant cars murmured like waves on a beach. Times, Sunday Times
  • The debauchee, the souteneur, the rough often break out into murmurs at a slightly risky scene or expression, though they be very harmless in comparison with their customary conversation. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
  • All these conditions tend to be recognised in childhood when abnormal heart sounds and murmurs are heard. BMA Family Doctor Guide - Heart Disease
  • That is asking a lot of a player who has been an ever constant for club and county since 1995, and during that eight year spell he has taken the knocks without murmur and has certainly not spared himself.
  • “Have you never thought of setting up house?” she murmured meaningly. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The people murmured against the new regime.
  • It has become almost a cliché to murmur wisely that cutting public spending significantly will be much easier said than done. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few murmurs of assent ran down the table's length at that remark.
  • ‘I'm so tired,’ she murmured, listening to the faint, steady beating of his heart.
  • She murmured softly to the baby in her arms
  • Wilde survived his first trial with a hung jury, but, amid much murmuring amongst those in high places was convicted in his second trial.
  • A murmur of excitement rose from the audience.
  • She buried her face into the curve of my neck and hugged me tightly, her soft voice murmuring that everything would be okay.
  • The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander n abysses of solitude.
  • He groaned, and almost dreamily began to murmur to himself, ‘You'll show her.’
  • He was murmuring sweet meaningless words in my ears.
  • Murmuring softly that they must go somewhere to talk, he led her from the garden.
  • Shall I leave my brother in the lurch?" the hakim asked them; and though they murmured, they thought better of him for it. In The Time Of Light
  • I gave him the scolding look I usually give to my brother and murmured, ‘Little guy, you are too young to know such words!’
  • Within, the air was full of the rich scent of seasoned timber and the resiny smoke of torches, and the subdued murmur of voices among the lower tables fell silent as the three of them entered, Canon Meirion leading. His Disposition
  • It has become almost a cliché to murmur wisely that cutting public spending significantly will be much easier said than done. Times, Sunday Times
  • I learned to feel the land in a new way, to hear its murmurs, to shepherd its resources, to commune with its vastness. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • When the change was announced in 1993 there was not a murmur of dissent.
  • `Called PVS," Mr Khan murmured, turning his eyes apotropaically to the ceiling. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • ‘It's all right, sweetheart,’ he murmured, his voice breaking slightly as his own eyes filled up with tears.
  • Someone in the crowd murmured a smart remark that caused a group of girls to erupt into a fit of laughter.
  • He punched on, with his left hand only, and as he punched, doggedly, only half-conscious, as from a remote distance he heard murmurs of fear in the gangs, and one who said with shaking voice: Chapter 15
  • “She surely deserves it all,” Graham murmured, although vaguely hurt in that the addle-pated, alphabet-obsessed, epicurean anarchist of an Irishman who gloried in being a loafer and a pensioner should even mildly be in love with the Little Lady. CHAPTER XII
  • He became a goalkeeper when a heart murmur stopped him playing in outfield positions as a youngster. Times, Sunday Times
  • With its European style cafes and restaurants, murmuring waterfalls, and lush semi-tropical vegetation, an evening stroll along its shores is a quintessential San Antonio experience.
  • Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • A doctor may suspect aortic valve sclerosis on hearing a heart murmur with a stethoscope.
  • She has a certain versatility that enables her to use with effect a style of narration peculiar to herself, which may be called a murmuring of delicate emotional trifles, the particular gift of those to whom the social sympathies of a peaceful time are as daily food. A Pair of Blue Eyes
  • Deirdre murmured, a tear tracing a path down her cheek, from sympathy, or from the bruises Alana was probably inflicting, he had no idea.
  • Just such a buzz and murmur as then arises might have been heard in Weston court-yard when the boys poured out from the schools, only increased so much in volume as the human vocal organs are more powerful than the apiarian. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
  • The murmurs would die away, and then rise again, and from time to time we knew that a baffled bicycler was pulling at our door, or vainly bumping against it. Seven English Cities
  • Whence 'synderesis' is said to incite the good, and to murmur at evil, inasmuch as through first principles we proceed to discover, and judge of what we have discovered. Matt J. Rossano: Thomas Aquinas: Saint of Evolutionary Psychologist?
  • There had been murmurings from the Spanish press that Barcelona had changed their mind about signing Fabregas as he is not featuring prominently in Spain's World Cup campaign. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Thouron stood and murmured a respectful greeting, then removed the other papers from the single vacant chair in the cramped and fuggy room, feeling Laboughe's simmering eyes on him. Sepulchre
  • Holly pulled Stella close and petted her the way she petted Amelia, stroking her sister's head and murmuring soothing noises. JUST BETWEEN US
  • There was murmuring behind Myra and a snicker or two in front. TOGETHER ALONE
  • The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence.
  • Ah, that sounds very amiable here; but in five minutes you'll be murmuring in Miss Bandoline's ear, -- 'I've been pining to come to you this half hour, but I was obliged to take out that Miss Wilder, you see, -- countrified little thing enough, but not bad-looking, and has a rich aunt; so I've done my duty to her, but deuse take me if I can stand it any longer.' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
  • As the tangents diverge, a sample of found sound enters the piece, with crowd murmur and the whine of vehicle brakes.
  • Very strikingly the 'murmurings' of the children of Israel are four times referred to in this context, and on each occasion are stated as the reason for the gift of the manna. Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • He murmured quietly, stroking the marks down his arm.
  • Bitterly, he murmurs how he should have refuted the women and explained his innocence.
  • He rises with the occasion, and the sheepish "gaby" becomes the knowing practical man; his is now the voice of authority, and his comrades recant on the spot, acknowledge his superiority without a murmur, and perform "ko-tow" before the once despised man of undeveloped abilities. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
  • ‘After the war,’ Brandark murmured, and the balalaika's soft notes were suddenly dark and discordant.
  • And there is an indistinct murmur which cometh out from among them like the rushing of subterrene water. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
  • The paramedic said he was still alive, moving his hand and murmuring something. Times, Sunday Times
  • He couldn't see anything, only heard the distant murmuring of the other people in the room.
  • For some time there have been murmurings of discontent over the government policy on inflation.
  • The horrible verse restarted, the tone at once gleeful and derisive, then gradually faded out as Bartlemy murmured a dismissal. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • The courtroom hummed with murmurs from the people.
  • “Here now, dearling,” he murmured as he folded her close. A Hellion in Her Bed
  • Sorrow, Remorse, Indignation, Despair itself, all these like helldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the poor dayworker, as of every man: but he bends himself with free valour against his task, and all these are stilled, all these shrink murmuring far off into their caves. Past and Present
  • The other woman, her voice lower, murmured some words of consolation to her friend.
  • There was a moment of near-silence in which a slight murmur of concern was audible.
  • Murmuring soft words of comfort and nonsense, she eased herself carefully along the wall, bringing her hand along the side of the horse.
  • At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
  • In our room we could hear the murmur of a distant brook.
  • In an undervoice softer than the murmur of the winds from the marshes, he breathed, "There are no lights in the house. The Silent Tower
  • Her haggard face and melancholy expression elicited a murmur of shock from the assemblage of reporters as she moved to the podium and began to speak.
  • True hi-fi connoisseurs may well murmur'of course! Times, Sunday Times
  • The first scene opens with the people of Thebes lying down on the stage as if almost dead and singing a monotonous murmur marked by the arhythmical beat of a drum.
  • As they bend over their work, they keep up a low murmur of conversation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Churchill, whose magnanimity is as great as his power of mischief, half rose to his feet, and murmured, with a bow of his head, "If I am not unworthy, Sir. What Is The British Point of View
  • Positive murmurs came from the dark. Across the beach Lux and Pat were huddled in conversation.
  • If he had wanted plain buttercream, I would have acquiesced without a murmur. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • When the moon rose we moved indoors to our beds, still sleepily murmuring. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • In the midst was a pennon displayed, which, though its bearings were not visible to Catharine, was, by a murmur around, acknowledged as that of the Black Douglas. The Fair Maid of Perth
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  • ‘Oh,’ I heard her murmur on my right, sounding quiet and minikin, and, unable to help it, I peered over, checking to see whether the reaction of a small child to such news was any different from the reaction I got from my peers and adults.
  • Women in nightdresses and nightgowns and men in trousers and shorts exited their homes in the utmost haste, murmuring amongst themselves.
  • Jacqueline du Pre was a gawky 20 year-old with a dazzling smile when she stepped into Kingsway Hall, Holborn, on August 19, 1965 to find Sir John Barbirolli on the rostrum and the London Symphony Orchestra in murmurous mood.
  • “Archdemon Asmodeus, aka Nathaniel,” Bath Kol murmured, bringing his hands close to the table. Surrender the Dark
  • For some time there have been murmurings of discontent over the government policy on inflation.
  • He murmured, slipping into the uncultured speech of the poorer class as he comforted the man in his arms.
  • At this point there were murmurings of approval from the experts.
  • The evening primrose, with outstretched filaments, hangs a golden necklace about the welcome murmuring noctuid, while the various orchids excel in the ingenuity of their salutations. My Studio Neighbors
  • Others more mildly murmur that it destroys male confidence and breeds rebellious violence in young men. Times, Sunday Times
  • At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
  • If you get closer you find that it is singing a murmuring song, full of clicks and whirring sounds, like a clock about to strike. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was about 10 o'clock when a murmur went through the crowd as the low drone of an aircraft was heard in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
  • What a surprise!" Caroline murmured sarcastically.
  • So he took the lute and swept the strings, and by Allah, I fancied they spoke in Arabic tongue, with a sweet and liquid and murmurous voice; then he began and sang these couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Murmured words escaped her lips, but were lost in his kiss.
  • The vet said that she had a heart murmur. Times, Sunday Times
  • The goat-men moved in and out of the shadows, their cries and calls mingling one with another into a low but threatening murmur. Virginity
  • One would say that Nagasaki is ascending at the same time as ourselves; but yonder, and very far away, in a kind of vapory mist which seems luminous on the blackness of the sky; and from the town there rises a confused murmur of voices and rumbling of gongs and laughter. Madame Chrysantheme
  • At his last gasp, he murmured the name of the person who shot him.
  • Kneeling on the ground, he scooped it up, dusting its leatherette binding with his sleeve while murmuring an apology to the librarian.
  • “How was your plan supposed to end?” she murmured, her fingers grazing just below his aching ballocks. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • She bowed her head and answered in a voice soft as the murmur of the wind through rushes, speaking in the rich language called Quichua that The Virgin of the Sun
  • There are murmurs that although he may have been a victim, he wasn't an innocent victim.
  • She offered a murmur of placative laughter as her apology, and said: Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William
  • There are murmurs amongst aficionados of his edgy, Gothic parables of Americana that he has gone over to The Other Side and become mainstream.
  • She had sufficient control over herself to accept his decision without a murmur, and to resign herself to his will.
  • And the nine-pins are falling with barely demurring murmur. Times, Sunday Times
  • Somehow she steadied herself and murmured, "Have you got a cigarette?".
  • She'd murmured her thanks, inwardly struggling to believe that such a thing had actually happened, that this wasn't some disordered dream. THE PERFECT LOVER
  • Physical examination revealed a well-appearing young woman, blood pressure 210/140 mm Hg in both arms, fundoscopic exam was normal, lungs were clear, cardiac exam revealed II/VI systolic ejection murmur, abdomen was nontender without hepatosplenomegaly, stool was guaiac negative, neurologic and musculoskeletal exams were normal. After the Diagnosis
  • He murmured that he wanted to sleep.
  • A murmur of approval passed through the crowd.
  • The poultry-yard, stables, and cow-shed, relegated to the buildings near the pheasantry and hidden by clumps of trees, instead of afflicting the eye with their foul details, now blended those soft murmurs and cooings and the sound of flapping wings, which are among the most delightful accompaniments of Nature's eternal harmony, with the peculiar rustling sounds of the forest. Sons of the Soil
  • The hubbub subsided into a low ripple of murmurs.
  • ‘I see you've learned to tango,’ he murmured, his low voice rumbling softly in my ear.
  • Receiving only an inaudible murmur in response, he returned his attention to the occupied seats across the room.
  • I wonder if my dying will be quiet, a lingering on to see that old friend the sun shining on a changeless world, to hear the rain murmuring on the last evening of my life? A Death in the Family « Unknowing
  • He told himself calmly that those words had absolutely no sense which had seemed to rise murmurously from the dark. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • I can't hear a word clearly, can such murmuring be called a song?
  • If you always remember the Lord's Passion, you will unmurmuringly forbear everything. - St. Dimitri of Rostov
  • The murmurous crowd, pensive and excited, exits the room, funneling like oil through the one passage once again into the trench.
  • If you listen long enough, you could swear you hear the trees talking, murmuring to themselves as they stand stoically in the teeth of the storm.

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