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Silent Cal, no doubt, would have murmured his approval.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still less could an earlier McCarthy character have murmured to herself, "She would leave him, she thought, as soon as the petunias had bloomed."

From Time Magazine Archive

"I have," murmured Bess as she tossed the last bundle into the fire.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Oh, dear," she is said to have murmured.

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She would have murmured some fine, scalding remark about Hilda's miraculous furpiece to cheer me up.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath