Murmuring Sentence Examples

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  • She was murmuring in a frustrated tone.

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  • A man and a woman in their prime stood before them, and the light murmuring of the crowd hushed.

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  • From the very first his reign was a time of war, foreign and domestic, of murmuring, and of humiliating b ill shifts and devices.

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  • This period of murmuring and misery culminated in the Great Revolt of 1381, a phenomenon whose origins must be sought in the most complicated causes, but whose outbreak was due in the main to a general feeling that the realm was being misgoverned, and that some one must be 1381.

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  • Before he became elector Frederick had promised the emperor that he would restore Schwiebus, and he was now called upon to fulfil this engagement, which after some murmuring he did in 1695.

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  • Wolfe rallied for a moment, gave a last order for cutting off the retreat, and murmuring, " Now God be praised, I will die in peace," breathed his last.

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  • Cavendishes and Bentincks were murmuring; Somersets and Wyndhams were hastening to kiss hands.

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  • It encourages the believer to patient endurance to the end without murmuring or imprecations (7-12).

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  • From 1872 onwards he was a strict teetotaller, not touching alcohol even as a medicine, and there was some murmuring among his clergy that his teaching on this subject verged on heresy.

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  • Moreover, he has to govern in accordance with the Rule, and must endeavour, while enforcing discipline and implanting virtues, not to sadden or "overdrive" his monks, or give them cause for "just murmuring."

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  • After this we have the healing of a dropsical man on the Sabbath, with a reply to the murmuring Pharisees; and then a parable of the failure of invited guests and the filling of their places from the streets.

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  • The murmuring of guards stopped, and he opened his eyes enough to peer through his eyelashes.

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  • A little time spent in duty is with a great deal of murmuring; doth not this bewray too much unbelief?

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  • He pulled her close, murmuring into her hair, "Just so you know, I plan to take those ankle socks off with my teeth later."

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  • St Louis had barely landed in Tunis when he sickened and died, murmuring "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" (August 1270); but Charles, who appeared immediately after his brother's death, was able to conduct the Crusade to a successful conclusion.

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