Which preposition to use with murmuring

of Occurrences 824%

Down below, in the night, I could hear a soft moaning, and a confused murmur of swine-voices.

in Occurrences 179%

The minister from the place with a name like Ruritania was so immensely bowled over that he was already murmuring in a low voice (almost a hiss, as they say in melodrama): 'Vous êtes chez vous, quand?

to Occurrences 161%

She murmured to herself and said, 'If it is not he, it is a brother; and the more that come, the more sure it is that he will come.

at Occurrences 110%

"It is very unfortunate," she murmured at length.

of Occurrences 63%

All was quiet in the house: soft breathing of the sleepers, soft murmuring of the spring wind outside, a wintry moon very clear and full in the skies, a little town all hushed and quiet, everything lying defenceless, unconscious, in the safe keeping of God.

from Occurrences 46%

he murmured from time to time.

with Occurrences 46%

And afterward the Pedlar murmured with an oddly twisted face: "Cat-eye, Joe.

against Occurrences 41%

No wonder that his epitaph murmured against so poor a burial as this!

through Occurrences 33%

The trees were fresh and green, birds warbled on every spray, transparent rivulets murmured through the meadows, the air was neither oppressively hot in summer, nor cold in winter, so that the temperature, and the attractive objects which presented themselves at every glance, seemed to realize the imagined charms and fascinations of Paradise.

on Occurrences 27%

For there was a deadly undercurrent of silence which would not tolerate more than murmurs on the part of others.

among Occurrences 23%

The old owl hoots mournfully, the frogs bellow hoarsely along the reedy shore, while the tree toads are quavering from among the branches of the scrubby trees that grow along the rocky banks; the whippoorwill pipes shrilly in the forest depths; the breeze murmurs among the foliage of the tall old pines, while the everlasting roar of the waters, as they go tumbling down the rocks, is always heard.

under Occurrences 18%

he murmured under his breath, the sweat starting to bead his forehead from the mental effort to solve the problem before him.

over Occurrences 13%

And yet, all unknowing, I have yearned for thee; in my youth I did love all sweet and gentle things in thy steadthe trees, the tender flowers, the murmurous brooksthese did I love in place of thee for that mine heart did yearn and hunger for a mother's tender love" Here needs must she stoop, all soft whispers and tender mother-cries, to kiss him oft, to lay her cheek upon his golden head and murmur over him.

into Occurrences 10%

It makes one speculate as to whether wives in the warring nations will step back without a murmur into the old-time dependence on one man, or whether these simple women may contribute valuable ideas towards the working out of sound schemes of motherhood pensions.

like Occurrences 9%

It was a murmur like that of an army preparing for battle.

as Occurrences 8%

I walk beneath the naked trees, Where wild streams shiver as they pass, Yet in the sere and sighing grass I hear a murmur as of bees, The bees that in love's morning rise From tender eyes and lips to drain, In ecstasies of blissful pain, The sweets that bloomed in Paradise.

in Occurrences 8%

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.

about Occurrences 6%

Not at the club; it's too full of people we know, who keep interrupting, and who would be tremendously edified at catching murmurs about libel and murder and Lady Pinkerton being poisoned.

against Occurrences 6%

Even within the delegations of the Great Powers there were indignant murmurings against this indefensible and unheard-of treatment of allies.

among Occurrences 5%

This levity occasioned a great murmuring among some of the doctors, who from thence predicted the fall of Babylon.

behind Occurrences 5%

" "Yessir," came the deep bass murmur behind him.

by Occurrences 5%

Will it be alleged, my lords, has this man one friend adventurous enough to assert, in open day, that the people are not starving by thousands, and murmuring by millions, that universal misery does not overspread the nation, and that this horrid series of calamities is not universally, among all conditions, imputed to the conduct of this man?

across Occurrences 4%

Farther off the gentle swell broke with a dull murmur across the wreck.

for Occurrences 4%

It's murmuring for Basil Fludger.

amid Occurrences 3%

And so he rests in the cemetery at Shiraz, where the nightingales are singing and the roses bloom the year through, and the doves gather with low murmurs amid the white stones of the sacred enclosure.

Which preposition to use with  murmuring