mutter

• Then The- leb K'aarna would scowl and mutter, and Yishana would laugh at him and glance brightly at Elric.
• The hard mutter which is the subject of the next extract embodies a difficulty that has perplexed many. —  Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel
• Ours and theirs I thought I heard her mutter--scarcely a mutter, at that -- "Not again." —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
• He was quite sensible that this ornament might as well be dispensed with; and his family often heard him mutter, after involuntarily performing it, "There goes the old shop again I {p.128} dwell on this matter because it was always his favorite tenet, in contradiction to what he called the cant of sonneteers, that there is no necessary connection between genius and an aversion or contempt for any of the common duties of life; he thought, on the contrary, that to spend some fair portion of every day in any matter of fact occupation is good for the higher faculties themselves in the upshot. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
• But after a while she began to toss and mutter, and then came those wild cries for Katie Robertson; that she had something to tell her; that she hadn't told a lie, for Katie was a thief When or how the change came the watcher hardly knew, but all at once she became aware that Bertie lay looking directly at her, and that there was full recognition in her eyes. —  Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life

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