Which preposition to use with mutterings
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.
He was absent-minded; he sat at table with scarce a word; he had little nervous movements, and subdued mutterings as of wrath.
Another drum is heard; mutterings from the southern end of the town respond.
The muttering in the distance increased constantly in volume.
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.
Mutterings against Breas were rife among the chiefs and their followers when the bard Cairbré, whose mother Etan was also a maker of verses, came to the assembly of Breas.
"Confounded imposition!" fumed Mr. Lewisham, and the breakfast table was novel and ominous, mutterings towards anger on the one hand and a certain consternation on the other.