"I know now what makes my teeth so sore lately," mumbling to himself; "it's from this here arrer-root an' all these puddin'y messes.

But Tula was kissing and mumbling over the hem of Paul's coat.

In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.

"The boy said they called him that because he mumbled in his sleep.

Her mumbling of her prayers confirmed me in this shocking idea.

Here, a great borough proprietor swallows a regiment at a single gulp; and there, the younger son of a lord ruminates over a colony till the very crows cannot find a dinner in it; and there again, a duke or a minister, himself and his family, having first "supped full of horrors," casts a diocese to the side-table, to be mumbled at leisure by his son's tutor.

" Amos, with a sly twinkle of the eyes, translated the proposal to Ephraim, who stood with his huge red hands clenched, mumbling about the saltless pottage of papacy.

"Better to seek vengeance dire than mumble on thy kneesmount, I say!" Forthwith Sir Fidelis arose, nothing speaking, and being in the saddle, reined back and suffered Beltane to ride alone.

"That's better," he mumbled around his cigar.

And at times her lips mumbled with fragments of some foreseen argument between herself and Skinner.

Society, we may be sure, began to whisper of these snug parleys in the arbor after dinner, these shadowed mumblings on the balcony when the moon was upand Lady Digby stiffened into watchfulness.

"Gee, she has the hands and the feet all right!" Dicky has a trick of mumbling beneath his breath, so that no one can detect that he is talking save the person whose ear is nearest to him.

He made no further audible remark, but mumbled between his thin lips something which an imaginative person might have construed into, "If you're a civil engineer, I'll be blessed if I wouldn't like to see an uncivil one!" Mr. Sewell's growl, however, was worse than his bite,owing to his lack of teeth, probablyfor he very good-naturedly set himself to work preparing supper for me.

" Thus he mumbled for some time, as these papers, representing a fortune, passed out of his keeping into those of a young maid but recently out of her teens.

He did not dare a second glance, with Davis and the Captain walking at either stirrup; but he listened anxiouslylistened and caught a drunken mumble from the rear, and a chorus of chuckling laughs coming after.

She made the sandwich, mumbling like a junior Ann, and at the last moment included an extra pickle.

It used to annoy me considerable when I asked him the price of pork tenderloins to have him mumble through two or three verses till he fetched it up, but I didn't have any real kick coming till he got ambitious and I had to wait till he'd hummed half through a grand opera to get a quotation on pickled pigs' feet in kits.