murmur

• The distant thoroughfares have long ago ceased their murmur, and I know that a million lamps shine idly in the idle streets My sister sleeps quietly in the little bed. —  The Promised Land
• To this she submitted without a murmur, and then Lady Ball came into the room They were both very nervous in watching her first behaviour, but were not at all prepared for the line of conduct which she adopted. —  Miss Mackenzie
• I stoop'd, and thus amidst his sobs I heard him murmur--"Ah I haven't got no supper! —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• A deep metallic sound went through all the courts, reverberated from the thick walls of the temple, and flew over the wheat-fields, above the mud cottages of earth-tillers, over the silvery waters of the Nile, where the faint cry of wakened birds answered it After a long time a murmur was heard inside, and the question Who rouses us Ramses, a slave of the divinity," said the penitent For what hast Thou come For the light of wisdom What right hast Thou to ask for it I received the inferior consecration, and in great processions within the temple I carry a torch The gates opened widely. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
• Without raising his voice above a honeyed murmur, and with nothing particular to say, by sheer force of cherubic, Andaluz charm of manner he fascinated the Duchess of Carmona, and even Lady Vale-Avon, to whom he was a new type. —  The Car of Destiny

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