Example Sentences

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Such guffaws do they elicit that cautious critics murmurously compare the play to Abie's Irish Rose.

From Time Magazine Archive

And he perfected the picture that he desired her to see by the assurance he gave murmurously from the darkness of the open door.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca

Somewhere far away sounded the faint inquiring woo-o-o of an owl and in the wet branches of a walnut tree a pigeon moved murmurously.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

Old Bernique called his little party to a halt at the bottommost dip of the Gulch, where a deep, clear and rock-bound spring wound murmurously over a rocky bed.

From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)

The city's voice rose murmurously through the heat, and one by one the usual beggars and venders made their appearance on the platform steps.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton