Murmur
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134 examples of Murmur in a sentence
As the death-rattle became stronger the priest prayed faster; his prayers mingled with the stifled sobs of Bovary, and sometimes all seemed lost in the muffled
murmur
of the Latin syllables that tolled like a passing bell.
God was very great, was very good: one must submit to his decrees without a murmur; nay, must even thank him.
They could hear the loud
murmur
of the river flowing in the darkness at the foot of the terrace.
To all that Madame de Renal said to him, Julien could only
murmur
in reply:'This is what rich people are like!'M. de Renal kept close beside them; his presence increased Julien's anger.
de La Mole has not sent so much as a wretched Cross to his agent at Besancon, and is going to allow him to be deprived of his post without a
murmur.
At this point an interruption occurred, but it was silenced by a general
murmur.
Tired of pacing the room in fury, the Marquis, broken by grief, threw himself into an armchair; Julien heard him
murmur
to himself: 'This is no scoundrel.'
When all the eyes that were looking for Julien became aware of his presence, on seeing him take his place on the slightly raised bench reserved for the prisoner, he was greeted with a
murmur
of astonishment and tender interest.
"Oh, it's of no consequence," the poor girls would
murmur
in reply, and covertly draw rugs and coats over themselves, and try and protect themselves with their lace parasols.
Harris is going to sing a comic song!""Oh, how jolly!" they murmur; and they hurry in from the conservatory, and come up from the stairs, and go and fetch each other from all over the house, and crowd into the drawing-room, and sit round, all smirking in anticipation.
We paid the bill without a
murmur.
"If you could sleep," said Sarah, "you were more fortunate than Frances and myself; every
murmur
of the night air sounded to me like the approach of the rebel army."
The balmy summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing
murmur
of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting--for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap.
There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the
murmur
of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom.
The little girls "showed off" in various ways, and the little boys "showed off" with such diligence that the air was thick with paper wads and the
murmur
of scufflings.
By and by attention ceased from him, and the accustomed school
murmur
rose upon the dull air once more.
The drowsing
murmur
of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the
murmur
of bees.
At length, as Camille was putting up the shutters, he briskly approached the young woman, to
murmur
in an undertone:"We shall be unable to see one another any more.
As he fell asleep, he decided he would await a favourable opportunity, and his thoughts, fleeting further and further away, lulled him to rest with the murmur: "I will kill him, I will kill him."
All around them they heard the
murmur
of the Seine.
But of all there were none he liked so well as those of the famous Feliciano de Silva's composition, for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight, particularly when in his reading he came upon courtships and cartels, where he often found passages like "the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I
murmur
at your beauty;" or again, "the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves."
Thou dost mark well, faithful and trusty squire, the gloom of this night, its strange silence, the dull confused
murmur
of those trees, the awful sound of that water in quest of which we came, that seems as though it were precipitating and dashing itself down from the lofty mountains of the Moon, and that incessant hammering that wounds and pains our ears; which things all together and each of itself are enough to instil fear, dread, and dismay into the breast of Mars himself, much more into one not used to hazards and adventures of the kind.
There is no nook among the rocks, no brookside, no shade beneath the trees that is not haunted by some shepherd telling his woes to the breezes; wherever there is an echo it repeats the name of Leandra; the mountains ring with "Leandra," "Leandra
" murmur
the brooks, and Leandra keeps us all bewildered and bewitched, hoping without hope and fearing without knowing what we fear.
'The calm, cool water seems to me to
murmur
an invitation to repose and rest.
A
murmur
of curiosity was of course the reply; and the old gentleman proceeded to recite, with the aid of sundry promptings from his wife, the lines in question.
I knew that her heart was breaking from that hour; but I never once heard complaint or
murmur
escape her lips.
I think I should kiss her, Mr. Magnus; and at this particular point, I am decidedly of opinion that if the lady were going to take me at all, she would
murmur
into my ears a bashful acceptance.'
The meeting looked at each other with raised eyelids; and a
murmur
of astonishment ran through the room.
'Why shouldn't he?'A
murmur
of assent ran through the company.
The noise of carriages and carts, the rattle of wheels, the cries of men and boys, all the busy sounds of a mighty multitude instinct with life and occupation, blended into one deep murmur, floated into the room.
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