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Muttered in sentence

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Poor Edward muttered something, but what it was, nobody knew, not even himself.
"And the man who can do that," he muttered, "can't make one tiny little bit of a girl marry him."
He pulled at the long thin mustache which drooped at the corners of his mouth in a curve shaped by the habit of tugging at it in thought, and muttered picturesque remarks in a tongue to which these walls had never echoed.
"All the people in my palace," said the child as they went, "say that she's your Kate.""I'm glad they know that much," muttered Tarvin to himself, savagely.
Dies with the babble in her ear of midwife's muttered charm,Dies, spite young life that strains to stay, the suckling on her armDies in the four-fold heated room, parched by the Birth-Fire's breath,Foredoomed, ye say, lest anguish lack, to haunt her home in death.
"Oh, dry up!" he muttered impatiently, staring through the half light that veiled all.
"Nay; stay so," he said imperiously; and relapsing into the vernacular, muttered thickly:"Those who serve the king shall not lack their reward.
"I might have known she'd get in her work early," he muttered, peering over his horse's withers.
"Shame oh, shame!" he muttered thickly.
Now, if I were to make a bolt of it to the missionary's they'd have me, wouldn't they?" muttered Tarvin to himself.
The commandant turned in his saddle, and, nodding at Tarvin, muttered, "Sitabhai!"
"It was a bad dream a very bad dream," he muttered, "and the worst of it is not one of the boys in Topaz would ever believe half of it."
"It is certainly old Icelandic," he muttered between his teeth.
He gazed upon me with his arms crossed; then these muttered words passed his lips:"It's all over!"
And a new sound mingled with it, a deep, muttered rumble, musical and yet menacing, rising and falling like the low, constant murmur of the sea.
Holmes's face was turned towards it, and he muttered impatiently as he watched its sluggish drift.
muttered my uncle, as the fat little man bustled off with his news to some new-comer.
"What can he be picking up?" muttered Pencroft.
"As I said, there is everything in this island, except tobacco!" muttered Pencroft with a sigh.
Sherlock Holmes was never at fault, however, and he muttered the names as the cab rattled through squares and in and out by tortuous by-streets.
His displeasure was expressed in broken sentences, partly muttered to himself, partly addressed to the domestics who stood around; and particularly to his cupbearer, who offered him from time to time, as a sedative, a silver goblet filled with wine--"Why tarries the Lady Rowena?""She is but changing her head-gear," replied a female attendant, with as much confidence as the favourite lady's-maid usually answers the master of a modern family; "you would not wish her to sit down to the banquet in her hood and kirtle?
Having thus spoken, he crossed himself again and again, and after many genuflections and muttered prayers, he delivered the reliquary to Brother Ambrose, his attendant monk, while he himself swept up with less ceremony, but perhaps with no less internal satisfaction, the golden chain, and bestowed it in a pouch lined with perfumed leather, which opened under his arm.
No sooner had they reached the mules, than the Jew, with hasty and trembling hands, secured behind the saddle a small bag of blue buckram, which he took from under his cloak, containing, as he muttered,"a change of raiment--only a change of raiment."
"I will do so," said Gurth, taking the bag under his cloak, and leaving the apartment; "and it will go hard," he muttered, "but I content him with one-half of his own asking."
"You should not ease me of mine so lightly," muttered Gurth, whose surly honesty could not be tamed even by the pressure of immediate violence,--"had I it but in my power to give three strokes in its defence."
And were all this otherwise, wouldst thou have us show a worse conscience than an unbeliever, a Hebrew Jew?""Nay, that were a shame," muttered the other fellow; "and yet, when I served in the band of stout old Gandelyn, we had no such scruples of conscience.
The knight muttered faintly a few words, which were lost in the hollow of his helmet, but their purport seemed to be a desire that his casque might not be removed.
"It is time lost," muttered Cedric apart and impatiently, "to speak to him of aught else but that which concerns his appetite!
"I am somewhat deaf," replied Cedric, in good Saxon, and at the same time muttered to himself, "A curse on the fool and his 'Pax vobiscum!'
But necessity, according to the ancient proverb, sharpens invention, and he muttered something under his cowl concerning the men in question being excommunicated outlaws both to church and to kingdom.
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