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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

" The Triple Alliance gave a murmur of assent.

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

Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth, Cumberland, where the Derwent, Fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams.

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.

And in a while, behold a glow that grew ever brighter, until, of a sudden, a man appeared bearing a flaming pine-torch, that showed a wide cave whose rugged roof and walls glistened here and there, and whose rocky floor ended abruptly in a yawning gulf from whose black depths came soft murmurs and ripplings of water far below.

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

Dorsey, on the magnificent Thunderbolt, drew a murmur of admiration from the lips of the girl.

Almost every article, by having passed through a variety of hands, had become enormously dear; which, operating with a real scarcity of many things, occasioned by the war, had excited universal murmurings and inquietude.