Word: murmured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davison uttered grateful words. Presently a switch clicked in the darkened room and then was heard the sound, familiar to planetarium demonstrators, of hundreds of gasps and smothered exclamations, like the far-off murmur of surf...
...reason such things as, "My lord, you are a nobleman and I am but a commoner, yet I dare tell you that any man who insults a woman is a coward!" Or. with a melting tenderness, the father would stare unseeingly at his son and murmur, "Clementine, I would give my life for a kiss from your lips!" Lucien Guitry, who later acted opposite Sarah Bernhardt, was merely going over his lines, but the boy did not know it. He considered his father enchanting, handsome, incomprehensible. He grew up with the fixed belief that in the world of the theatre...
...which he wrote for Rejane. During the third act the audience, already restless, was offended at a scene in which a husband became seasick after discovering that his wife was deceiving him. Stamping in urison began, accompanied by a strange laughter. The laughter was "transformed into a sort of murmur," then into a "more nervous, snickering laugh," a deep, terrifying silence, a low rumble, then hissing. "If you have never heard yourself hissed you can have no notion of how physically painful it is. I can imagine that if one has committed an evil act, has been disloyal, has committed...
...never lost her composure during her arrest, questioning, imprisonment, trial, or execution. When a bystander lifted her bloody head and slapped the face, a murmur of rage swept through the crowd. A summer storm that had roared over the scene suddenly passed, the skies grew light and the thunder & lightning ceased...
...blossom bends before the storm of my love." Awed and impressed by such tempestuous passion, Carl Raswan received the confidences of the lovers, was present at their meetings. Faris would put his hand over Tuema's heart, saying thoughtfully: "It jumps like a wild rabbit." And Tuema would murmur in reply: "It will become quite tame...