The shareholders were moved and one heard murmurs of sympathy.

He could distinguish no words, but he caught the murmur of Lou's voice as she talked to Jack Landis, and it had that infinitely gentle quality which only a woman's voice can have, and only when she nurses the sick.

It fell DEAD-BORN FROM THE PRESS, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.

"Having thus, as I thought, silenced their murmurs, I sank into a state of torpor, and was oblivious of all their noise.

And though, at length, she became calm and resigned, and never was heard to utter one murmur at this fresh stroke of sorrow, yet her pensive sadness became more confirmed, and plainly showed that she mourned for Fingal, not only as her lost companion, but also as a connecting link between her own heart and the memory of her lamented brother.

Above, faint and muffled, sounded a murmur of voices.

Rudimental palms and pines of mushroom growth stood there motionless, sending forth no soft and soul-like murmurs into the lurid reek; for as yet leaves and flowers and blue skies and pure breezes were not,nothing but whiffs of mephitic and lethal vapor ascending, as from a vast charcoal brazier.

look!" and Beltane pointed of a sudden to where the great gallows, outlined against the night in seething flame, swayed to and fro, crumbled, and crashed to earth 'mid whirling sparks and flame, while, from the town below rose a murmur that swelled and swelled to a shout, and so was gone.

'Ungrateful creatures, whence arise These murmurs which offend the skies? Why this disorder?

Once she paused to listen, but heard nought save the murmur of the brook and the faint stirring of leaves.

Then he remembered, remembered with a cold shiver which blanched his cheeks and brought a little agonised murmur to his lips.

This unusual sight in a free State having raised a murmur among the people, the soldier, disconcerted at the liberties which the citizens took, thus addressed them: "Having left you when nine years old, I have returned after a lapse of thirty-six years.

The chivalry and grace of the young noble elicited a murmur of approbation, as he courteously indicated his friend.

Wherever he went a murmur of "Silence! stand to your front!" was heard, and at his presence men grew steady as on parade.

She had just attained this forced but respectable tranquillity, as the bailiff, signing to the crowd to hush its murmurs and to remain motionless, arose, with a manner that he intended to be dignified, and which passed with the multitude for a very successful experiment in its way, to open the business in hand by a short address.

" The Triple Alliance gave a murmur of assent.

The eyes of the child fell first upon the old apartments, the great grounds, the homely scenes around the old country-houseupon the tall Lombardy poplars and the oaks, through which passed the wind bearing to his ears the murmur of the Potomac.

" "You are very good indeed, I am sure, all of you," Norgate declared, answering the general murmur of kindly words.

Suddenly he heard sounds,strange, low, melodious sounds, as if the shell were remembering and repeating to itself the murmurs of its ocean home.

On this the people were again ready to mutiny, and resumed their murmurs and cabals against him.

Then broke forth a general and simultaneous murmur which, had such testimony been wanting, would in itself have manifested that the unknown officer was scarcely more fortunate in his present than in his recent service.

Among the miscellaneous crowds that were visible between the divisions of the martial host, there ran a murmur of obloquy and derision against the pure object of public veneration.

"Do you recognize him?" The cafe-keeper, who had been making inarticulate murmurs of surprise and grief, nodded.

From our pleasant wells of water came we here to die of thirst?" But the master stilled the murmur with his steadfast, quiet eye: "God is great," he said, devoutly,"when He wills it, we shall die." As he spake, he swept the Desert with his vision clear and calm,

If he would have called, the sound died a murmur in his throat.