The elder went home with menacing mutterings and noisy cane-rappings on the sidewalk; but the officers were more fortunate.
And as he watched he gave way tomutterings of a vengeful nature.
There were mutterings because Fyles the white man came to sit often in Athabasca's lodge.
In the crowd there were mutterings unmistakable to Pierre.
She strained and groaned as if in pain, while the severity of her treatment was attested by a long spell at the pumps, the quantity of water she had in her giving rise to many ominous mutterings among the crew.
His fat sides would shake with silent laughter as he watched the stealthy glidings to and fro, and heard the mutterings of the suspicious skipper, who never dared say a wry word to him.
She waited for him, ignoring themutterings of the pirates, and as he approached her she gave him her hand.
A sudden hush fell upon the place; the mutterings ceased as if tongues were stricken stiff.
Tom called me, saying that he had been listening to the mutterings and roars of lions, the occasional cries of deer as they were pounced on by some savage beasts, and the shrieks and other strange noises of night birds.
In April, 1676, Governor Berkeley, fully conscious of the mutterings of revolution, was awaiting with anxiety the arrival of favorable news from the agents.
And throughout the colony the mutterings of impending insurrection were too loud to be mistaken or ignored.
The recollection of the civil war in England was still fresh enough in his memory to make him tremble at the mutterings of rebellion, even though they came from across the Atlantic.
Susy's quaint and effective spelling falls quite opportunely into to-day's atmosphere, which is heavy with the rumblings and grumblings and mutterings of the Simplified Spelling Reform.
I had no extraordinary trouble with my razor on this occasion, and was able to worry through with meremutterings and growlings of an improper sort, but with nothing noisy or emphatic about them--no snapping and barking.
Low mutterings of thunder in the distance travelled faintly to the ears of the occupants of the House of White Shadows.
If what John Vanbrugh had disclosed in his mutterings during his lonely watch was true, he held in his hands the key to a mystery, which, revealed, would overwhelm the Advocate with shame and infamy.
I find the fairy- like measures delightful after the doleful mutterings of some of the other Scherzi.
To the earth for consolation he bent his ear and caught echoes of the cosmic comedy, the far-off laughter of the hills, the lament of the sea and the mutterings of its depths.
Volcanic mutterings these: [Musical score excerpt] It is a sinister page, and all the more so because of the injunction to open with pianissimo.
The others followed with mutterings and grumbles, and the women being now safe, began barricading the entrance of their house against other marauders.
For a long time these mutterings and rumblings had been heard.
As soon as the secret of the defection of the favored unions leaked out, there were rumblings and mutterings in the labor world.
There was a shaking of heads, and mutterings arose.
The storm seemed to have passed, but the darkness was intense, and from above the northern Superstitions came low mutterings of thunder.
The mutterings were too constant and too disconnected to be mistaken for sleep-talking--it dawned on Nan that this must be delirium.
Other men cursed and swore, and mutterings of a serious nature were heard; but there was nothing to be done, and the row of comfortable, completed log cabins was torn down, and we settled ourselves elsewhere by degrees.
But it was with sullen reluctance; and mutterings were to be heard, on all sides, that the time would come yet.
The volcano seems quiet; but the pent up lava in its bosom must at last give forth mutterings of its impending irruption, and swiftly upon these mutterings must follow flames and ruin!
When he listened he could, however, distinguish no sound in the mutterings and the boomings that was human, and repressing a desire to cry out, he groped along up to the second exit.
Eerie it was in the dim light, eerier it was now in the dark, with those hoarse mutteringsfrom beneath, and those thunderous reverberations pealing at irregular intervals through the unknown spaces above.
Disease and death followed the Austrians to their new encampment, and louder grew the mutterings of the men, and more bitter their denunciations of the emperor.
He knew that a guard was at the angle of the building, placed there to prevent his escape, for he could hear the angry mutterings of the fellow as he moved about.
Over went walnut whatnots, and out came mutteringsthat made him hotter than ever for very shame.
Pompeii had chariot-races to the mutterings of Vesuvius.
Nothing of particular public importance attracted the attention of the general until the mutterings of civil war gave utterance to sound.
For a minute or two there was a look in his eyes which encouraged George to hope that reason was returning to her abandoned throne, but the look quickly passed away, and the incoherent mutterings recommenced.
There weremutterings here; herded together, these slaves were bolder; and hunger and cold, discouragement at not being able to stop the flow toward the mills were having their effect.
Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills.
As though sensing a drama, the mutterings were hushed once more.
A thick rain-drop fell now and then, while occasionally hoarsemutterings of thunder sounded in the distance; yet the slumberer was not arous'd.
The Vicar had stopped in his discourse, scared by that other voice, but as Brian's loud accents sank into mutterings he took up the thread of his argument, and went on denouncing Jehoram.
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