It was at Ceylon that he caught the first ominous mutterings of the terrible storm which was about to burst over India, and which was destined so powerfully to affect his own expedition.

Alone in the night; spectral forms about him; the sleeping man adding to the ghostliness of the scene by his incoherent mutterings, his hideous, gulping breath, his ghastly, blood-curdling outcries.

A confused muttering followed; and then Dorothea heard Endymion's voice calling up to Mudge from the bottom of the trench.

He slept for part of the night while Kit watched, but now and then tossed about with delirious mutterings.

Thence, as Dunburne stood without, he could now distinguish the dull muttering of a man's voice, which he opined might be that of the preacher.

I shall surely die by lightning; I have not had that live shadow of a sky-reaching fear hanging over me, with its black wings and awful mutterings, so long for nothing; in every flash my eyes are scathed by the full blaze of hell.

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.

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.

You're mine, Bess, mine by right of capture, mine" The sentence halted midway; halted in a gasp and an unintelligible muttering in the throat.

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!

An indistinct muttering, with a look at the carving-knife in reply, teaches that daring person how ill he has chosen a market for his deference.

The subdued mutter took on a note of anxiety.

Deadened by the closed door, the measured accents of the professor sounded as a featureless muttering.

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.

Dog my skin, ef I ever get fairly limbered up afore it's 'Dad!' and 'Oh, Dad!'" To Lance's intense satisfaction the girl received this harangue with an air of supreme indifference, and when "Dad" had relapsed into an unintelligible, and, as it seemed to Lance, a half-frightened muttering, she said coolly, "Ye'd better drop that axe and scoot round getten' this stranger some breakfast and some grub to take with him.

The people who followed us with curiosity commenced a gentle muttering upon the opening of the doors.

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

The rains have ceased; the storms of winter, always accompanied by overpowering heat and dense fogs, no longer sadden the island by anticipated darkness, or the gloomy mutterings of continual thunder.

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.

From time to time he shuddered, and a hoarse muttering came from under the gray woolen scarf he had wound round his mouth and beard.

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

And the stillness was unbroken, save at moments by a cry From some stray belated vulture sailing blackly down the sky, Or the snortings of a sleeping steed at waters fancy-seen, Or the hurried warlike mutterings of some dreaming Bedouin.

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

He lay there speculating as to what they were about, and meantime the storm cloud was rising higher and higher above the horizon, with louder and louder mutterings of thunder following each dull flash from out the cloudy, cavernous depths.