"How often," complained a voice blurred with sleep, "how often must I tell yewake me, unless the shipchart's allGood God!" At the captain's cry, those who lay in darkness under the thatched roof began to mutter, to rise, and grope out into the trembling light, with sleepy cries of joy.

The subdued mutter took on a note of anxiety.

The mutter stumbled.

the mutter persisted"the Lone Wolf?" "Yes, yes!

The mutter took a moment to con the full significance of that adjective.

The mutter became momentarily a deep-throated chuckle of malice.

" "But"obliquely Lanyard struck again at the heart of the mystery which he found so baffling"you seem so well satisfied with the bona fides of your informant?" There was a sound of stertorous breathing as the intelligence behind the mutter grappled with this utterance.

" "I know that well enough," said the mutter.

See here..." The mutter sank into a husky whisper, and in order to be heard the speaker bent so low over Lanyard that fumes of whiskey almost suffocated the poor man in his bed.

He said, as if content, in the manner of a practical man dismissing all immaterial considerations: "As you say, the time is brief..." "It'll have to be pulled off to-morrow night or not at all," the mutter urged with an eager accent.

Then"the mutter was broken with hopeful anxiety"then you've decided you'll stand in with me, Mr. Lanyard?"

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

The mutter had a rising inflexion of dubiety.

the mutter protested.

Furthermore, Mr. Mussey had not stilled his mutter in the night until their joint and individual lines of action had been elaborately mapped out and agreed upon down to the smallest detail.

[In this manner he mentions what his meaning was in making the Lady the compliment of his absence:] As to leaving her: if I go but for one night, I have fulfilled my promise: and if she think not, I can mutter and grumble, and yield again, and make a merit of it; and then, unable to live out of her presence, soon return.

"Good boys, good boys, good boys after all," he would mutter to himself, as they bent over him, and nursed him tenderly in his helplessness.

Andy went on to mutter, half to himself.

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.

At the last point from which one can see the city of Cuzco, all true Indians, whether on their way out of the valley or into it, pause, turn toward the east, facing the city, remove their hats and mutter a prayer.

A young man in Lucian fell in love with Venus' picture; he came every morning to her temple, and there continued all day long from sunrising to sunset, unwilling to go home at night, sitting over against the goddess's picture, he did continually look upon her, and mutter to himself

As she shepherded her little party across the staircase lobby, she managed to mutter into her niece's ear: "I want you to take on Miss Burnaby for me, BubblesI'm anxious to make friends with Helen Brabazon.

Old Laurence, as he smoked his lonely pipe in the grass-grown courtyard, would cast a disturbed glance at it, as it softly glowed out through the darking aperture, and mutter a prayer or an oath.

When Cobb says to Lady Ellen "Fenderson Featherhead," you enter the room, and in a nervous aside you mutter: "What, he!

the major heard him mutter.