Murmuring

I wonder if my dying will be quiet, a lingering on to see that old friend the sun shining on a changeless world, to hear the rain murmuring on the last evening of my life? ❋ Unknown (2009)

His own faith came from sunnier lands, and his romerías recall, rather, the splendid church pageants of Seville, Montserrat, and Loreto, or the autumn pilgrimage to Montevergine when Naples spills its vivid multitudes in murmuring thousands across the corn fields of Campania. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now that Villanueva is logging major minutes and simply getting it done, it's small consolation to recall that I was far from alone in murmuring, "What was that?" on draft day. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The rest of the sentence like the rest of the article: "He also loves the people, saying ,'They're kind and they're gentle and they're modest and they're slow'" is standard travel-section cliché, but the word murmuring stands out: have you ever heard a fire murmur? ❋ Unknown (2005)

She has a certain versatility that enables her to use with effect a style of narration peculiar to herself, which may be called a murmuring of delicate emotional trifles, the particular gift of those to whom the social sympathies of a peaceful time are as daily food. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There was a pause, whilst from afar came that strange low sound of thousands of men murmuring, which is so akin to the booming of the waves upon a rocky shore. ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)

Poluski's quip; but that fleeting glimpse had thrilled her with subtle recognition of something grasped yet elusive, of a knowledge that trembled on the lip of discovery, like a half remembered word murmuring in the brain but unable to make itself heard. ❋ Louis Tracy (1895)

As we listened, I recall murmuring something to the effect of, "It's the phrasing, isn't it?" only to have Tormé correct me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, given Labour's falling poll ratings, this kind of murmuring ishardly surprising. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also on most of his detail: on the pace of An Cuimhin Leat an Oíche Úd; on the diagnosis of "murmuring" in the early invocation to the Virgin Mary; and on his remarkable statement that "even a reader who lacks Irish" might judge on the issue of "murmuring" between different versions. ❋ Kinsella, Thomas (1987)

An undefined terror for a moment seized upon her, and she was about to yield to the dictates of fear, and return to her room, when a kind of murmuring sound, as if of voices in the distance, met her ear. ❋ Alvin Addison (N/A)

Acoustically intermediate between the freely unvoiced and the voiced sounds are a number of other characteristic types of voicing, such as murmuring and whisper. ❋ Unknown (1921)

As in a dream I heard a kind of murmuring behind me -- and suppressed exclamations from the students or disciples of Aselzion who were all assembled in the chapel -- but I paid no heed to this -- my whole soul was set on fulfilling the last task demanded of me. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

If some course has all at once struck us as wrong which we had been long accustomed to do without hesitation, has there been no 'murmuring' before we yielded? ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Traces of the cleft between Palestinian and Hellenist believers had appeared as far back as the 'murmuring' about the unfair neglect of the Hellenist widows in the distribution of relief, and the whole drift of things since had been to widen the gap. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

Finally, with a hesitant hand, he placed the gun in Coffin’s palm, murmuring a Korean word, as if in explanation. ❋ Patrick A. Davis (2006)

"Dude, are you still [tweeting]? That is so two-thousand-and-twelve bro! It’s [all about] [yelling] on Murmur now." ❋ LitGawd (2019)

-silence- "murmur!" ❋ Mimi121 (2008)

Dude, that was intense—still feeling the murmuration—I can't believe [the show] is over and the [stage] is [empty]! ❋ Emma1765 (2017)

You have [the right] to keep [loud] murmuring but [I don't give a shit] at all. ❋ Catty Box (2023)

**[trips] [down stairs]** I have [now] diagnosed myself with heart murmur ❋ Custard&mayo (2019)

University challenge. The [NERDs] debate [the question] while making [nerd murmur]. Look at those [nerds] over there. I can’t understand a word of their nerd murmur. ❋ Sparkyrio (2022)

Dude, [look] - [murmur pants] [alert] ❋ SpidermansSexDen (2010)

[Check out] the murmur pants on her. ❋ Toeselecta (2011)

when Dave [ate] the [nacho] [pile] he had a sphincter murmur. ❋ Dave Rollie (2008)

[Ron] is [a dick] [murmur]. ❋ SYB (2008)