Word: murmur
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...Originally named Samuel Barnet, but at 14, just before his first stage appearance, he was accidentally dubbed Sam Bernard by the stage manager, who misunderstood his shy murmur. He kept the misnomer, made it legal...
...little muttering wars, the noise of the mines under the hot sun, the songs that the Dutch vintners sing and the old curses that black men shout in the alleys of Johannes-burg?for most people these are far away. They are heard only as a confused murmur, a distant and broken music...
...President, meteorologically wise, would ever murmur these words to the heavens. For it is rain that keeps a President and his party in power; drought forebodes political upheaval...
...years ago the Vagabond sat in the Century Theatre and watched a New York audience file out at the end of a play without applause, without so much as a murmur of conversation down the crowded aisles. This greatest of all tributes the tribute of silence was paid to a dramatist two thousand years dead. Sophocles was that dramatist and it was Sir John Martin-Harvey's performance of "Oedipus Rex" that so won Broadway...
...condemned and criticized I shall not murmur, because I remember that Sam Houston, the father of Texas, paid the same penalty. If I am hated and abused, I shall forgive my enemies and find comfort in the recollection that Jim Hogg,* when he laid down the reins of power, was also hated and abused...