Word: muttering
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Ringo meets these youths in every bar. They sneer at him, strut, and mutter that "he only has two hands, hasn't he." Then they very quickly draw and die. "Gunfighter" tells of Ringo's attempts to escape from these youths and from his own ability, and of the youth with an incipient moustache who is responsible for his final failure to escape...
...some drugs." His brother angrily refused to believe that Harry Gold could possibly have led a double life. But when they went to see him, Harry said: "I've done something that can't be rubbed off." Why had Harry Gold done it? He could only mutter a line which a thousand sinners had muttered before: "I must have been crazy...
...point after the start was the contest a race. Cornell apparently left whatever stuff it had to win the Carnegie Cup a week ago in the Housatonic, and rowed only adequately. The Crimson rowed beautifully. Passengers aboard the press launch could only mutter incredible" as they watched the Harvard shell, consistently under stroking the Big Red, move constantly ahead...
Hermann Kastner decided to take sick leave for a few days. In the Communist high command they began to mutter that he might have to be replaced: he did not quite "measure up to his responsibilities...
After the war he settled in a tumble-down villa in a Parisian suburb where to him, as always, the world still seemed as mysterious and insubstantial as that of his paintings. When visitors came he would point to the tangled grass and thickets which surrounded the house and mutter: "I have never explored this land. There must be savage beasts in there." Like the figures in his paintings he was hard to pin down. "It troubles me to talk about my painting," he says. "My mother used to tell me, 'Of God, sprich nicht...