" Thus musing, thus muttering, he plodded up the road, his insignificant figure an unpromising break in the monotonous white of the wintry landscape.

" Muttering his thanks, Sweetwater seized the proffered package, and hastened with it down the hall.

The old woman started from her chair, muttering, "It is the cannon!"

He jumped up and down, all the while brandishing his cane, and muttering, "Pshaw! pshaw!

The soft muttering seemed to be a thread connecting us with life itself, and I dreaded the moment it would cease.

I opened my eyes to see Kaipi looking at the face of the dancer he had stabbed in the back as the brute was muttering his prayer!

Her father remained obdurate, muttering, "I knew this would happen.

After a severe tussle, Gerôme and I managed to throw out the unwelcome visitor and bar the door, though we saw him for an hour or more prowling backwards and forwards in the moonlight in front of the bungalow, muttering to himself, waving his arms about, and breaking every now and then into peals of loud laughter.

" Godfrey turned on his heel wrathfully, muttering something about a "low beggar," which Andy, not hearing, did not resent.

Gibson dropped his stick in a dazed way, muttering: "Great Scott!

And I know I was crying so I could hardly speak before I finished; and Father was on his feet tramping up and down the room muttering something under his breath, and lookingoh, I can't begin to tell how he looked.

" He sort of smiled when he said that; then he got up and began to walk up and down the piazza, muttering: "So you came as Mary, you came as Mary."

"What if I does lose a few peltries when they're bringing such a good price down in St. Louey? Can't I afford to do it, when there's a gal in the matter?" He resumed his walk as slowly and thoughtfully as before, muttering to himself.

Faint sounds came to us; there was a distant rumbling, like the muttering of thunder on a summer's night, when the day has been hot and there are low, black clouds lying against the horizon, with the flashes of the lightning playing through them.

Sometimes his voice is so low, and the words crowd one upon another so fast, that the muttering is like the prolonged growl of a wild beast; then the mood changes, and the unseen man seems to be addressing an invisible audience in grand sonorous sentences as though he were a Cicero; and perhaps he may be, but as he speaks in patois his eloquence is lost upon me.

I heard a voice muttering "Confound that old fellow!"

He was turning restlessly and muttering again.

The sick man was now delirious again, muttering disjointed texts and bits of old sermons with which the Lute of the Holy Ghost, young and ardent, had once thrilled the Saints.

Accordingly the prophet lit his pipe and smoked with great deliberation, muttering all the while in a low voice.

A soldier motioned us back as we attempted to ascend it, and muttering some unintelligible words, pointed to a narrow street near.

The woman stared at me with an expression of doubt, and muttering something that sounded extremely like "little liar," turned from me, and went her way.

They passed apart, muttering, exclaiming, wondering.

She took them, curtesied, and with her low, gurgling laugh, leaped over the wall, and went muttering on to rock or tree, or any other object that came in her way.

Buzzby gazed in silence and with compressed lips for some time; then he returned the glass, at the same time muttering the word, "Pirate.

" "What's wrong with O'Riley?" said Fred, pointing to that eccentric individual, who was gazing intently at the bears, muttering between his teeth, and clinching his cudgel nervously.