Which preposition to use with mutters

to Occurrences 265%

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

in Occurrences 61%

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.

of Occurrences 32%

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

at Occurrences 29%

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.

between Occurrences 24%

he muttered between his teeth.

under Occurrences 20%

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

about Occurrences 12%

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.

with Occurrences 12%

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.

against Occurrences 8%

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

through Occurrences 8%

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'!

into Occurrences 6%

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

as Occurrences 6%

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!"

among Occurrences 5%

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.

over Occurrences 5%

"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.

after Occurrences 3%

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

by Occurrences 2%

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!

like Occurrences 2%

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.

on Occurrences 2%

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.

below Occurrences 1%

In a moment he turned aside, and muttering below his breath he took up the glass on the table.

without Occurrences 1%

But many times we complain, repine and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist, and will not.

behind Occurrences 1%

For it contains much truth: When the flicker of London sun falls faint on the Club-room's green and gold, The sons of Adam sit them down and scratch with their pens in the mould They scratch with their pens in the mould of their graves, and the ink and the anguish start, For the Devil mutters behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?" The philosophers did poetry

in Occurrences 1%

In the silence of my chamber, When the night is still and deep, And the drowsy heave of ocean Mutters in its charmed sleep, Oft I hear the angel-voices That have thrilled me long ago, Voices of my lost companions, Lying deep beneath the snow.

before Occurrences 1%

The necromancer then muttered before it his blasphemous enchantment.

round Occurrences 1%

It was evening, and the gypsies muttered round their fire in a tongue unknown and strange.

around Occurrences 1%

"Bad sign!" was muttered around him; "God have us in His keeping!"

Which preposition to use with  mutters