Word: murmurings
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...something else to present kinds and degrees of hardship, violence, cruelty and injustice which Dana never recorded. There are no scenes of impressment in the book, nor any of murder. There is only a murmur of mutiny, which the captain quells by reasonableness, not violence. The captain is not interested in breaking his own speed record, regardless of the well-being of his men. When a case of scurvy develops, he gets more fresh food as soon...
...Oxford knows it has a vice-chancellor, and that the vice-chancellor runs the University,* but few can tell his name. Ask an unsuspecting undergraduate who Sir Richard Livingstone is and the chances are he will murmur something about Stanley in Africa. Last week, as Oxford slumbered in the "long vac" and Sir Richard hied himself to Ireland for a holiday, the Atlantic Monthly gave its U.S. readers (who know him even less than Oxonians do) a chance to meet one of education's most articulate thinkers...
Good Intentions. A low, satisfied murmur swept the crowded, orderly courtroom. But for the rest of the world the truth was not so easy to distill out of the steaming cauldron of hatred, feuds and rivalries that was Yugoslavia when Hitler struck. To millions outside who remembered his early heroism, his rescue of U.S. and British flyers, it was hard to believe Mihailovich a traitor. What, then, was he guilty...
When Laurence Olivier's magnificent screen production of Shakespeare's Henry V was first disclosed to a group of Oxford's impassive Shakespeare pundits, there was only one murmur of dissent. A woman specialist insisted that all the war horses which take part in the Battle of Agincourt should have been stallions...
When creeping murmur and the poring dark...