How To Use Murmurous In A Sentence
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A more immediately evident reference to the goat-being sequence is in Joyce's use of ‘hither and thither’ to indicate a murmurous, tactile speech-act.
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He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.
Underworld
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She responded to the long, artful caress with a low, murmurous moan.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Jacqueline du Pre was a gawky 20 year-old with a dazzling smile when she stepped into Kingsway Hall, Holborn, on August 19, 1965 to find Sir John Barbirolli on the rostrum and the London Symphony Orchestra in murmurous mood.
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So he took the lute and swept the strings, and by Allah, I fancied they spoke in Arabic tongue, with a sweet and liquid and murmurous voice; then he began and sang these couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He told himself calmly that those words had absolutely no sense which had seemed to rise murmurously from the dark.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The murmurous crowd, pensive and excited, exits the room, funneling like oil through the one passage once again into the trench.
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He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.
Underworld
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a murmurous brook
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The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour.
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Cockatoos scream with excitement and gladness; honey-eaters whistle and call; drongos chatter and scold the rest of the banqueters; the tiny sun-bird twitters feeble protests; bees and beetles maintain a murmurous soothful sound, a drowsy blending of hum and buzz from the rising of the sun until the going down thereof.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The jungle, almost always murmurously quiet, had never seemed like the real enemy-and now Amalfi knew that his intuition had been right.
Cities In Flight
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But the dead only fed the living and each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight, to those who still possessed intact windows, of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures.
Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
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Abstractedly she watched the dancers for a few moments, commenting murmurously as a couple eddied near.
The Beautiful and Damned
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Dutchman_, and presently he became aware of a soft strumming sound, and of a voice which sang murmurously:
The Happy Venture
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And he perfected the picture that he desired her to see by the assurance he gave murmurously from the darkness of the open door.
The Judge
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But the dead only fed the living and each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight, to those who still possessed intact windows, of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures.
Excerpt: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
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The liquid coursed down the fabric in rivulets and emptied into a semicircular metal basin below, producing the murmurous sound of a steady downpour.
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And presently the outer fringe of the Welsh camp became perceptible rather by the lingering intimations of humanity, the smoke of fires, the resinous odours of newly split wood in the lengths of stockade, even the mingled, murmurous sounds of such activity as persisted into the night, than by anything seen or clearly heard.
His Disposition
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The new parsonage at Rosemary is nearer the church than the old, -- but the old parsonage has more land, and its garden slopes gently downward to the little river, slipping murmurously away to the sea.
Old Valentines A Love Story
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Perhaps sea and pine are one because the sea, too, is endlessly and murmurously alive.
Takasago
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And his own mother, ghastly ill but here at last, murmurous, a strong and mortal presence in the house.
Underworld
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Through the murmurous miasma, he said, `This is an exercise in empty masochism.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself.
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She rushes out to the van, wearing her retainer for spacy teeth, a thing she never wears in public, and they drive down past the Wall and into dark and empty streets and the van stalls out, doing a murmurous swoon, and they walk the last eleven blocks with Gracie carrying Mace and a cellular phone.
Underworld
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Through the murmurous miasma, he said, `This is an exercise in empty masochism.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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He displayed his arm to the assembly, and in the murmurous awe of all, we watched his cupped hand catch his own trickling blood.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The natives 'voices arose murmurously, for they felt it was not well to offend the strangers.
The Eternal Maiden
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A bed by night, a hard-wood floor by day," Ken misquoted murmurously.
The Happy Venture
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Through the murmurous miasma, he said, `This is an exercise in empty masochism.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
