An old war correspondent, the muttering of the guns was like music to him.
But just then my attention was taken up by a low mutteringbetween the men, and Hope whispered that one of them was opposing the other's plans.
Before they got to Crediton they could distinguish, above the sound of the wheels, the thunder groaning andmuttering perpetually, and as they rattled quickly past the grand old minster a few drops of rain began to fall.
The fields were empty, and the rag-stuffed windows blank, under the baleful glance of the horsemen who galloped by at intervals, muttering curses, not always confining themselves to muttering them.
The man wasmuttering rapid fragments of words, and syllables.
Henry related that he was just answering a call on the 'phone when he saw William dash past him into the small lobby off the hall, possess himself of hat and coat, and, after muttering some words of apology, go forth into the darkness.
It isn't another invention, because when he is inventing he is merely monosyllabic, with spasms of muttering and an increased tendency to knock things over.
Philip, mutteringthe word over and over again; "food, raiment, and a place in which to sleep safely.
Yet the Jew took no notice of them, but stumbled past, muttering into the cloak which covered his head, talking to himself, and pulling his rags round him.
And follow it out he did, until at last he lifted up his eyes, muttering to himself: "At this point the footsteps wholly disappear.
Lifting his eyes, as we have said, while thus regretfully and despairingly muttering these words, he saw Middleton against the oak, within three paces of him.
He was cutting off her arms one by one and victory was almost his, when down the road came an old man wagging his grey beard dolefully and muttering into his breast.
And when he reached the three there at the roadside, he stood for a moment watching the battle and still muttering in his beard.
Having meted our this summary interpretation of Afghan petty justice, Kiftan Sahib resumes his blanket, and the old sowar comes and squats alongside my own rude couch, and endeavors to heal his wounded spirit by muttering appeals to Allah.
The rain-dispensing columns pass me by on either side with muttering rolls of thunder and momentary gleams of lightning, enveloping me in swirling eddies of dust and bewildering atmospheric disturbances, but not a drop of rain.
In most of the conjuring tricks the conjurer would purposely make a partial failure in the first attempt; an assistant would then impart the necessary power by muttering cabalistic words over a monkey's skull.
The mudbake proceeds to obey his superior, with many apprehensive glances at the muddy freshet, and wades gingerly in, muttering prayers to Allah the while.
Meanwhile Braesig had been walking up and down the room thoughtfully, and Hawermann might have heard what he was muttering to himself: "Marvellous!
But if he had heard what Fred was muttering as he went along the road towards Puempelhagen gazing blankly at his broken pistol, he might not have taken things so quietly.
He refused to give her any, and she went away muttering threats against him.
Meantime he went about muttering threats against this one and that one, giving way to bitter reflections; one bitterest of all, that there had been a suspicion of connivance at the escape of the prisoners.
On board the vessel I constantly heard the officers muttering among themselves 'keep a good watch, take care.
Montbarts walked up and down with hanging head, and arms folded on his chest, stopping every now and then to stamp his foot savagely: then, resuming his hurried walk, while mutteringunconnected words in a low voice.
Walton heard an angry male voice muttering something in the outer office, and then the annunciator said, "He insists he must see you immediately in reference to a Happysleep commitment.
He saw the effect she had: people were nodding in agreement, grimacing vehemently, muttering to themselves.
By the time they had summoned John, though the muttering continued, the words were unintelligible: yet they knew she was praising God.
Shortly before eleven that morning she waked suddenly out of slumber with lips muttering rapidly.
Her new friend screwed his eyes up tighter and, muttering something, put out his hand to her.
Sometimes out of a calm sky a few drops fall, the twigs rustle, and far away is heard the muttering of thunder; the traveller thinks: 'A storm somewhere about.
You seem uneasy, Uncle," said I, when for about the hundredth time he put down his telescope and walked up and down, muttering to himself.
As we advanced, I could hear my worthy uncle muttering to himself: "But the compass.
The poor old man smiled an assent, and then he succeeded in muttering the name of "Sir Reginald Wychecombe.
I suppose, sir, he has succeeded in muttering your name, and that a natural construction has been put on its use, at such a moment.
At length, hearing the distant muttering "thunders of the Vatican," he resorted to Rome, to reason with the powers that then held universal sway.
But he kept muttering to himself, "This is a whole night wasted; I must set out at daybreak.
I thought he was dead, but when I bent over him he was muttering 'Monsieur Le Blanc'" "Did he seem sensible?
Charcoal, for gunpowder, is uniformly prepared from the celtis orientalis, called áng'grung.
They all rise from a plain but little elevated above the level of the sea, and each must, with very few exceptions, be considered as a separate mountain, raised by a cause independent of that which produced the others.
The town in length, stretching landward, is eight hundred and fifty fathoms, and the seaport extends about four hundred.
After she was gone, David stood at the window, biting his lips and muttering to himself.
And I left him, muttering maledictions against his evil angel.
He turned away, muttering some sentence of impatient censure or complaint, in which 'heartless' was the only distinguishable word.
I left him muttering bad language to himself, and went up-stairs.
