Word: murmuring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thought is too terrible to dwell upon. With grateful tears John Harvard can only shake his head and murmur: "Thank you, George, but it cannot...
...such accomplishments the nation could not refrain from applause, but under the applause a murmur of dissatisfaction with the Russian treaty could still he heard, and that murmur has not passed unnoticed by the Premier...
...Conservatives, who hoped to make stock of the Russian document, did not seem to have as keen an ear for the murmur as the person at whom the protest was directed, for as soon as the applause set in they were frightened into a policy of hopeful waiting. When the applause was to die down they hoped to stir the murmur into a growl and with a late fall campaign to bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Government to force an election...
...sooner had he bowed out of Parliament than he bowed into the annual convention of the Labor Party to start his campaign. And this campaign will be waged with applause still drowning out the murmur of the Russian affair, with the Conservatives unprepared, and with the Liberals undecided which way to turn, shouldering MacDonald's own responsibility for the unpopular election. Almost by coincidence a new electoral register comes into force on October 15, giving the Labor party with its far superior clerical machinery a distinct advantage...
...Osborn?"The astral body theory . . . made it an eminently proper play. It took the edge from the guilty delight of such spectators as had thought to shout 'Wow!' and felt impelled instead to murmur 'Blah...