"Muttering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... went out, but as we passed them I saw the doctors muttering together, for they were ill-pleased and foreboded evil. Also they were jealous of me, and wished to smite me through the heart of him ...
— Nada the Lily • H. Rider Haggard
... was as solid standing there as this," he tapped lightly with his knuckles the wall beside his chair. "It was as though I had heard it all, seen it all, gone through it all twenty times already. I wasn't afraid of them. I drew back my fist and he stopped short, muttering— ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... shook hands with Jack, muttering a word or two in broken English, expressive of his pleasure over ...
— Footprints in the Forest • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... away muttering something about the poor always remaining poor with their foolish notions of throwing away money; and Margaret MacLean went back to the book of faery-tales. But as she was looking for the place Sandy ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer
... tucked into a closed taxicab, half-heartedly muttering expostulations and protests to which I paid not the least heed. During my strolls I had observed in what would have been Regent Street at home a rather good-class shop with an English name, and to this I now proceeded with my charge. I am afraid ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
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