26 adjectives to describe mutter

R662415. Tyke, the little mutt.

The subdued mutter took on a note of anxiety.

She managed to hold her tongue, but her flashing eyes and an occasional mutter, which would come out as she went about her usual duties, showed the smoldering fire that was burning inside.

At first, indeed, only a vague mutter, with a few disjointed phrases, came through the door, but suddenly an angry voice rang out clear and painfully distinct: "Yes, I did!

The guns had ceased firing, there were no lights anywhere to be seen, the only sound was the monotonous slap of the ripples against the hull of the overturned boat andfar in the distancethe dull mutter of the guns down by Sedd-el-Bahr.

As there could no longer be any doubt about the fact, we loaded up the old rusty cannon once more, stuffed it full of wet grass to strengthen its voice, and gave the desired signals, which echoed in successive crashes from every rocky promontory along the coast, and died away to a faint mutter far out at sea.

And we yet to look awhile, and to be husht, and to hark in those last moments unto the far mutter of the Great Fire-Mountains, and the Fire-Hills, and the noise of life which did go over that Land; and we even then to be but a few short pacings off from the silence of the Great Gorge, which should lead us presently toward the Eternal Strangeness which did be in the Night Land.

We could hear her breathing lightly in the pauses between the howling of the jackals, the movement of the wind in the tamarisks, and the fitful mutter of musketry-fire leagues away to the left.

Calamity Ben was moving his head restlessly from side to side, keeping up a gibbering mutter.

All around beneath it came ever and anon a dull red flash, and presently a short grim mutter of the coming thunder was heard.

"What have you given her?" demanded Coronado, in a hoarse mutter.

" "Beg your pardon," said an humble mutter.

An inaudible mutter ended with, "Keep clean, anyway.

But she caught only a monotonous mutter, unintelligible but evil, and saw only the bottle passing from one to the other.

mumble, mutter; maud^, mauder^; whisper &c 405; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump^; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay^. Adj. stammering &c v.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected.

" "Spy through the keyhole, then; or hide in one of the empty rooms across the corridor, and watch" A muted mutter from the direction of the desk dried speech on Victor's lips.

And surely, in that time, we heard the murmuring in the night which told of a fire-hole somewise before us; and soon to have the red glare plain to our eyes, and the noise of the murmuring to die away into the nearer mutter of the fire; and so presently to be anigh; and we to make forward with a good speed, because that we feared utterly the thing that made quiet chase of us through the night.

It greeted the forbidding rocks beyond the shore, the long irregular line of stark, storm-beaten cliffs, with ominous mutter, now and again throwing a cloud of spray high in the air, as if in derisive proof that even in sleep it was sensible of its power.

And there came presently to our ears the far mutter of the fire-pit, so that very soon the murmuring was lost to us in the night, and only the slow mutter to be plain.

all unheard Mutters a solemn mystic word With reverence the Sudra dips, And fervently the current sips, That to his humbler hope conveys A future life of happier days.

the only answer to the father's call was the angry mutter of the thunder, or the quick lightning that flashed through the gathering gloom!

You ain't soft on him, are you, account of what he done for that yellow mutt of yores?

Without the rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the lady that sits here Bound in strong fetters fixed and motionless.

He is a bombastic mutt, a windjammer nonentity, a false alarm, and an encumberer of the earth!" "Would you mind writing all that down for me?" "Why in the world" "He's my husband, and I should like to use it on him some time.

Then, after mighty little rest, we marched fast and far, with cannon-thunder in our ears in a constant mutter, always growing louder, until in the afternoon we came at a quickstep through a piece of woods out upon the plain by Waterloo, where they had been fighting all day.

26 adjectives to describe  mutter