"Muttering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with a black scarf, and on his head a black, conical-shaped hat, some three feet high. Haying fastened the remains to the extremity of a long, black wand, he held them in the fire of the altar until they were nearly consumed, and then laid the charred mass in the urn, muttering an incantation in Latin. The urn being buried deep in the ground, we formed a ring around the grave, and sung the dirge. Then, lighting our larches by the dying fire, we retraced our steps with feelings suited to the ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall
... up and down before the State House for some time, muttering threats and "new coined oaths," Bacon mounted the steps to the Long Room, where the Burgesses sat, and demanded a commission to lead a force out against the Indians. One of them told him that governor alone had the right to grant a commission. But when he left they sent a message to Sir William ...
— Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 • Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
... had taken the long, iron-shod walking-stick from the umbrella-stand. But, suddenly, she began to rummage among the canes and sunshades, muttering: ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc
... at these insults, at these lashes which her shrill, piercing voice dealt his artistic talent, left his wife, let her roll on the floor and with clenched fists, went from one end of the room to the other, looking at the ceiling, muttering all the oaths, Spanish and Italian, that were in ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Ferry, where the former had gone to see Aleta off on a road tour with her company. The little boss was twisting his moustache and muttering ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
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