Nine months later this baby is fully out, swaddled in awards and platinum albums and many, many tears, and it's been the guilty pleasure for millions: men, if caught watching it, will redden and switch to the donkey-porn channel; women will mutteringly insist they're just catching up on, like, who's pregnant and that, honest. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I said something mutteringly, and he vowed he would hear it. ❋ Unknown (2006)
My brother seemed ready to give a loose to his passion: My father put on the countenance which always portends a gathering storm: My uncles mutteringly whispered: And my sister aggravatingly held up her hands. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the entrance hall, the forty butlers are pouring rivers of champagne mutteringly identifying the vintage, as instructed and dispensing the fascinating canapés arranged on replica Royal Worcester and Chelsea serving dishes, each with a little porcelain Chinese person in the center playfully pointing to the food. ❋ Giles Waterfield (2004)
A step approached her bed, she dared not move, she strove to calm her palpitations, which became more violent, when she heard her mother say mutteringly, “Pretty simpleton, little do you think that your game is already at an end for ever.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Another story we have of her; "Berurea found a certain scholar reading mutteringly, and spurned at him," &c. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
All on board was settling down into Yangtze fashion, and the barbaric human clamor of our trackers, which now mutteringly died away, was suddenly taken up, as above recorded, and all unexpectedly answered by a grander uproar -- a deep threatening boom of far-off thunder. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)
"Bring him along?" mutteringly echoed the blankbrained Link. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
"PARIS -- for just one month!" he repeated, with infinite wistfulness, and then realizing what an old, old cry it was with him, he shook his head, impatiently sniffing out a laugh at himself, rose and went pottering about among the canvases, returning their faces to the wall, and railing at them mutteringly. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
` ` Paris -- for just one month! '' he repeated, with infinite wistfulness, and then realizing what an old, old cry it was with him, he shook his head, impatiently sniffing out a laugh at himself, rose and went pottering about among the canvases, returning their faces to the wall, and railing at them mutteringly. ❋ Unknown (1905)
In the fenced roadside paddocks loose horses galloped wildly for a while; the heavy cattle stood up breast deep in the grass, lowing mutteringly at the flying noise; a meek Indian villager would glance back once and hasten to shove his loaded little donkey bodily against ❋ Unknown (1904)
Lyster, scarce hearing the words spoken, simply thought the old fellow was drunk, and was about to interfere, when the girl, as though touched by the contest above her, turned mutteringly on the pillow and opened her unconscious eyes on the face of the stranger. ❋ Marah Ellis Ryan (1900)
She was so aged that she appeared unable to hear my greeting, and replied only mutteringly, while her bleary eyes gleamed up at me between fallen lids. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
Somewhere behind her Daddy John and Courant made a noise with skillets and picket pins and spoke a little, a sentence mutteringly dropped and monosyllabically answered. ❋ Geraldine Bonner (1900)
We skip them, or we read mutteringly, or we say frankly that this is not adapted for reading aloud. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
The helmsman was nodding silently upon his tiller; two seamen sat motionless upon the bow, and the lookout party in the crow's-nest talked mutteringly of our ill-luck as they scanned the horizon. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)
Clad in the handsome glittering uniform, which showed his nobly-proportioned and powerful figure so advantageously, the officer stood, hat in hand, the long sable plume drooping toward the floor; and, as he scanned the portrait, his lips moved and these words crept inaudibly, mutteringly, over them: ❋ Augusta Jane (1864)
