Gradually, imperceptibly almost, something stole on my eara sound that resolved itself into a faint murmur.

Down below, in the night, I could hear a soft moaning, and a confused murmur of swine-voices.

And there was a little murmur of pleasure as the poet passed, and those who had heard his poem made obeisance to him, and thanked him, and thanked the Father for him that he was able to show them so many beautiful things.

Beyond the gentle murmur of the sea, an intense stillness prevailed.

News and politics are to him like the distant murmur of the surf at the back of the island; a noise which is nought to him.

Go!" Hereupon from the disordered ranks a sound arose, a hoarse murmur that voiced their stark amaze, and, for a while, all eyes stared upon those two grim figures that yet stood so close and brotherly.

Then came a loud and passionate murmur.

Sensations of hunger, heat, and motion beat upon the baby-brain; there is a vague murmur of sound in the baby-ears.

But now no shout went up for the stranger, but an angry murmur was heard among the crowd, so easily had he won the match.

The whole place was wonderfully quiet; indeed, save for the continuous murmur of the water, at the top end, no sound, of any description, broke the silence.

Only the bees among the flowers filled the air with a pleasant murmur.

Farther off the gentle swell broke with a dull murmur across the wreck.

Or let me sit Far in sequestered aisles of the deep dome; There lonesome listen to the sacred sounds, Which, as they lengthen through the Gothic vaults, In hollow murmurs reach my ravished ear.

He felt the flutter of her lips, while she whispered in his ear strange, breathless entreaties, a broken murmur of endearments, unheard-of, which tempted him more than the wide, alluring darkness of the river.

You want to square me!" "Nothing of the kind, Godfrey," was the reply in a lower tone; but at this point I coughed emphatically and moved a chair, and the voices subsided once more into an indistinct murmur.

Around their borders rises the sullen murmur of threatening armies and hostile dynasties; but Belgium is free from menace, and their sunshine of peace is without a cloud.

I cry out for the water-brooks, and pant for fresh streams, and inland murmurs.

" There was a silence much more appreciated than a polite murmur of invitation would have been, and the simply smart people settled themselves rigidly to catch every word for future use.

The gymnasium was filled with a dense crowd of boys; "Rats," Maxton, and some other members of the Lower Fourth were fighting for seats on the parallel bars, and throughout tho whole assembly there was a subdued murmur of interest and expectation.

The while her dark soft eyes sought all the earth, The beauteous earth that she too soon must leave; And all her mournful murmurs ended thus With this sad cry of, "Oh, the happy world!" Ended with these low words as a sigh, I will obey, but, "oh, the happy world!"

The steady murmur of the voice of Hunter reached him as the big man soothed the horse.

But mad I was!" Charles, thanks to the resolution with which he combated the tendency, and to the steadying influence of his work at the desk,despite his occasional murmurs, his best friend and sheet-anchor in life,never again succumbed to the family malady; but from that moment, over his small household, Madnesslike Death in Milton's visioncontinually "shook its dart," and at best only "delayed to strike."

I used to dream that the city that saw my birth would one day swell with pride at my name, adding it to the brilliant list of her illustrious sons, and, when death should put an end to my existence, that they would lay me down to dream the golden dream of immortality on the banks of the Bétis, whose praises I should have sung in splendid odes, and in that very spot where I used to go so often to hear the sweet murmur of its waves.

" Duchemin uttered a sympathetic murmur.

Many other sounds are more pleasurable,the baby's laugh, for instance, or its inarticulate murmurs of content or sleepiness.