What made me more impatient still of my enforced idleness was the fact that, according to Frank's continuous report, Mauna Loa was now rumbling, and grumbling, and mumbling away in a more persistently threatening style than ever.
Gone out," she answered, mumbling her words in her toothless mouth so that I could hardly make them out or understand them.
Monty, with pale face and bloodshot eyes, was walking up and down, mumbling to himself.
The old woman hesitated a moment longer, whereupon he fell to scanning pensively the address, and mumbling over "Jean Paul Marat, a great man that.
An old goodman of a priest, who passes along mumbling his prayers?
He was an ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers.
I took my place in the procession of cripples, and hobbled along with them, mumbling the prayers prescribed for us.
After mumbling over me for several minutes, he smeared some ill-smelling ointment on my nose; then he fumigated me with incense until I was almost suffocated.
I had just gathered from her grudging, mumbling speech that she had lived there since the cottage was built, when my sister was in the room again.
But she thought of the mumbling lips, the look of anguish in the poor eyes, went on, and rang the bell.
Mumbling that she didn't know what sickness was, he stumbled obediently away in the direction of the shore.
Mumbling to himself, he turned sullenly from the men about him and walked slowly down the dock.
Moving to one side he watched the drunken fisherman stumble on, heard the low mumbling of his voice.
He clenched his huge hands and raised them above his head, mumbling all the while in his own tongue.
If it be a sheep, it is carried away to a distance on the shoulders of a man, who runs with all his might, mumbling as he goes, as if in the greatest rage against the faditra, for the evils it is bearing away.
The Judge,” interrupted her aunt, “has continually been bothering me with requests to take you out into society; has continually been mumbling under his breath that you are already grown up.
The two men were mumbling together--Ruth could not catch the words at first.
As he quoted Mary Antony, the old lay-sister's odd manner and movements could be seen; her mumbling lips, and cunning wink.
Mary Antony dropped upon her knees to the right of the steps, her hands hidden beneath her scapulary, her eyes bent in lowly reverence upon the sunlit flagstones, her lips mumbling chance sentences from the Psalter.
He kept chewing disconnected words between his toothless gums; it was the mumbling of an old man who had sunk into second childhood, and whom it's impossible to understand.
Just as the final points had been explained there was heard a low mumbling of voices and soft patter of feet.
She began mumbling an oath every time her father found a new form for his praise.
He was meditating perhaps upon the wrinkled crone who had been his mother; "fittified" and mumbling inarticulate and unlovely vagaries over her widowed hearth.
At the name, Anne saw again the lank mountaineer of the loose joints and the uncombed hair, who this morning had parted from her mumbling maledictions against Boone.
I disgusts ther feller my own self," and before she could gather any key to the extraordinary incident, he had gone trudging on, mumbling the while into his unshaven beard.
He did not like the sound of the mumbling at the windows nor relish the looks of the men who had just come flocking into the yard at the heels of Sylvester.
Simmons, his yellow jaws mumbling with terror, looked at Dr.
I had seen it, contorted in terror, mumbling frantic pleas for mercy, weeping and howling, on the old Class E uninsurable the expediters had found hiding in the vaults.
He had begun to breathe heavily and irregularly, and he was mumbling something I couldn't understand.
We waited there all of that day, Benedetto mumbling almost inaudibly beside me.
We stood thus facing each other for a moment--mumbling forth some commonplaces of explanation, she looking intently into my eyes.
One meets decrepit old women and men, halting and limping and slowly revolving their prayer-wheels and mumbling charms.
Barton approached nearer to him, and muttered something in a low, mumbling tone, to which the other seemed to pay little if any attention.
Mumbling a half apology for the locale, he introduced me into a long, low attic, where a settle bed of the humblest pretensions and a single rush-bottomed chair supporting a basin were the only articles of furniture.
Even among such hard-bitten old salts as they all were, more than one could be seen mumbling a prayer for the unfortunate men who had put up such a gallant fight.
Simon Gosler was left mumbling and sniveling and fingering his coat pocket, in which he kept his glass.
Mumbling to himself, Simon Gosler did as he was told.
Instantly the mumbling in Bram's throat ceased and he thrust out slowly a huge misshapen hand toward the golden strand.
And Bram, his laugh dying away in a mumbling sound, seemed not to notice it.
A mumbling and incoherent jargon of sound issued from his thick lips as he took stock of Philip's supplies.
Again and again he heard the strange giant mumbling incoherently to himself, but not once did Bram utter a word that he could understand.
Bram rose to his feet, mumbling softly, and taking what was left of one of the two caribou quarters he again left the cabin.
The second day I saw him mumbling over something, and looked sharp.
He was mumbling and chuckling to himself, as if amused at what he had seen.
The giant was turning slowly toward the window, and after a moment or two in which they could hear him mumbling softly he sat down cross-legged against the wall, divided the tress into three silken threads and began weaving them into a snare.
It was as if in Bram's face and his queer mumblingshe had recognized something which was not apparent to him.
He dropped on his knees beside the dunnage bag and mumbling thickly as he worked he began emptying its contents upon the floor.
