" Thereupon, she, being angry, and not without reason, making no answer, but muttering to herself, passed out of the chamber and left me alone.

Every now and then they would dislodge some of the loose fringes of the snow-crown, which would come sifting down on them and send them screaming back to camp, where they would subside among their companions with a shiver, muttering in low, querulous chatter like hungry children.

He caught the muttering of many voices, in which laughter and shouts were brought to the level of a whisper at close hand; and through all this there was a persistent clangor of metallic sounds.

As the grand fleet drew near the scene of action the smoke of battle and mutter of guns came down on the winds.

But hour after hour within the stifling fortress the giant tossed and muttered at the swords of sunshine that pierced his semi-dusk through little spark-burnt hole or nail-tear, torturing sensitive eyes.

he muttered between his teeth.

"That means me," Dave muttered under his breath.

The same EDDY, I'm thinkin', that I've heard him mutter about in his shlape at my shebang in town, whin he came there on political business.

Then she felt his shaking hand upon her shoulder and heard him mutter with husky tenderness: "My dear, this is the fust chance since we've been married that I've had to take the wust of it.

Men with fancied, but not real grievances, have talked and muttered against the United States.

It is best described by one of our boys who was lying on a table in a base hospital, waiting his turn to be operated upon, when he heard another who was being wheeled out from the operating room and was muttering through the ether fumes: "Fired at me ten feet away, he did, point blank, and then he dropped his rifle and stuck up his hands and called me 'Kamerad'!

" Abraham would give one exasperated glance at the tin cup and mutter into the depths of his beard: "Tansy tea an' old women!

Meanwhile the young stranger had made his way through the crowd, but, as he passed, he heard all around him such words muttered as "Look at the cockerel!"

All the people in the squadron being utterly unacquainted with the seas they now traversed, fearful of their danger at such unusual distance from any relief, and seeing nothing around but sky and water, began to mutter among themselves, and anxiously observed every appearance.

"Ef I'd a-knowed that yew had more lives 'n my Maltese cat," Samuel was muttering over Abe by this time, "I'd" Count, count went Captain Darby's fingers.

He was absent-minded; he sat at table with scarce a word; he had little nervous movements, and subdued mutterings as of wrath.

The muttering in the distance increased constantly in volume.

"Pardieu," he muttered after a moment, "so they are!

Another drum is heard; mutterings from the southern end of the town respond.

Ay, to death, my master; Yet boorish heretics, with grounded throats, Mutter like sullen bulls; the Count of Saym, And many gentlemen, they say, have sworn A fearful oath: there's danger in the wind.

And after brooding, and muttering by fits and starts, he said: "How many tens and hundreds of thousands of pounds will change hands at Heckleston next week; and not a shilling in all the change and shuffle will stick to me!

Exactly so, we mentally muttered on entering Ribbleton-lane; and we passed the thirty feet House of Correction wall to the right thereof, with an air of triumph, redolent of intrepidity and independence.

Even my mutterings about interest having accumulated were put down as the desperate resource of embarrassment.

He jabbered constantly, his mutterings at last coming to her in jumbled words as Benny drew on.

Muttering beneath his waxed fang-like moustaches, he took an instrument from the table.