I have lain biting my cheeks many nights with ears murmurous with the songs of these strange men.
The students are working in these murmurous classrooms with a new seriousness and a devotion which disregard all petty inconveniences and obstacles.
Jasmine sat back enjoying the perfume of hot grass, the murmurous air, the gentle fluting of a faint wind, while the Dean proved conclusively that the Saxon invasion utterly swept away every trace of Roman civilization in Britain.
It was good to be alive; it was good to watch the crowd in the street, to see the sunlight on the pavement, to taste the air, to feel the murmurous currents of the city flow around her as she walked home in the twilight.
Her cheeks flushed while she talked, and, for the moment, she lost entirely her resemblance to Jane, who was never animated, though she made a perpetualmurmurous sound.
He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself.
He had felt a subtle, dark, and murmurous presence penetrate his being and fire him with a brief iniquitous lust: it, too, had slipped beyond his grasp leaving his mind lucid and indifferent.
The whole valley was murmurous with subdued outcry, and a multitudinous lowing and bleating of the herds swept up, blown wildly by the hurricane.
He caught her arm and ran, dragging her after him down the corridor, half-lighted, but murmurouswith sound.
The murmurous wind did not soothe him, and the wakeful night had a terror for him that he could not outrun.
Up here on this giddy height a hot wind of the upper air is blowing, and a vibrating, murmurous throbbing pulsates through the building itself.
As it is a murmurous and noisy city in comparison with those of Japan, so it is peaceful and quiet in comparison with Chicago or New York.
There was a small fountain, and the waters sang in a murmurous music.
In the midst of some murmurous stanza I would suddenly stop, only to see her start and look at me as though I had committed a sacrilege, in that I had spoiled some dream of hers.
The music and the babel of tongues had become murmurous and indistinct.
From behind them camemurmurous talk of ships--Ken and Martin discussing the Celestine and her kind, and the magic ports below the Line.
The room was scarcely lit by the smoldering brands of the fire; its silence hardly stirred by the murmurous hissing of the logs.
The note-like lisp of the pippins that leap, Ripe-mellowed to gold, to the ground; The murmurous sleep that the cool leaves keep On close lips that trickle with sound.
And dreaming here it seems to me Some dryad's bosoms grow confessed Nude in the dark magnolia tree, That rustles with the murmurous West,-- Or is it but a dream of thee That thy white beauty guessed?
But going forth that morn, and with his feet Threading the murmurous maze of street and street, All strangely fell upon him everywhere The things he saw and heard of foul or fair.
The large species of the Fox Squirrel (Sciurus vulpinus) belongs exclusively to the "murmurous pine-woods" of South America.
The peaceful repose of Paradise Court, the silence, which was only broken by a shriek from the parrot, and the murmurous coo of the pigeons outside, was indeed almost too complete.
The day was warm; the room was carefully darkened Miss Munnion sat holding her book close to a crack in the Venetian blind, reaching aloud in a subdued and murmurous voice.
After some while I espied a stile upon my right and climbing this, I crossed a broad meadow to a small, rustic bridge spanning a stream that flowed murmurous in the shade of alder and willow.
And suddenly I heard it, a low, murmurous cry, unutterably doleful.
I will pass over the labour of the ensuing hours wherein we all wrought cheerfully; but evening found us camped within that oft-remembered wood beside the stream whose murmurous waters seemed to find a voice to welcome us.
Of such, the wind in lonely tree The murmurous brook, doth tell to me.
So the bees go by in murmurous bands, Drowsily wand'ring to happier lands Where the lilies draggle the bank.
But Melissa, reclining 'neath the willow-shade, gazed down into the murmurous waters of the brook with eyes of dream whiles Jocelyn struck soft, sweet chords upon his lute.
Saying which, he sighed again, and stared gloomily into the murmurous waters.
Small secretive noises came from them as if minute confidences were passing from bough to bough, and through their murmurous undertone the drip of the spring fell with a thin, musical tinkle.
The foot propelled the children into a murmurous drowsy heap.
No outward pull or inward swell of the sea's breast was visible; it was as though that fine edge of murmurous whiteness were always made of the same particles of water, hissing perpetually along the cliff's foot.
It was dark, ugly, smelly, the traction-engine, but it was what endowed the murmurous thresher with life.
Then shall there be a whisper heard Of the Grave's Secret and its Word, Where in black silence none shall cry Save those who, dead-affrighted, spy How from the murmurous graveyards creep The figures of eternal sleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "murmurous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: mumbling; murmuring; muttering; whispering
