murmurs

• If you've been a fan for a while and ever wondered about the murmurs, here you go. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
• Far be it from your humble NBR correspondent to indulge in idle rumour-mongering, but in Taranaki the murmurs are as hard to avoid as the cowpats, and they're just as sticky - Shell has more oil than it lets on. —  National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand
• He abhors himself for his murmurs, and "repents in dust and ashes." —  Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
• From remonstrances they proceeded to murmurs, not only "loud, but deep," and from murmurs--"tell it not in Ascalon, publish it not in Gath"--to violent pushing, and, at length, to blows. —  The Idler in France
• The old sneer at Solon's Boss-ship was again to be observed on every hand, that attitude of doubting ridicule, half-playful, half-contemptuous, which your public man finds more dangerous to his influence than downright hostility would be But the murmurs were again stilled, and Solon might breathe the peace of a golden age when as yet no Potts, male or female, had come unto us It was not felt at all that Solon's genius for the discretion of public affairs had availed him in this latest crisis. —  The Boss of Little Arcady

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