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He speaks rapidly, mutteringly, in great long paragraphs full of observation and introspection and drollery and doubt, generally frowning at the floor while he does so.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2016

He, mutteringly: "I can tell she's going to upstage me."

From Time Magazine Archive

And as they were moving off, Brazenstare turned round and asked him, mutteringly, if he intended to kiss the schoolmistress.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

Then," said I mutteringly, as I turned upon my heel, "then indeed has it come to pass that one truth is stranger than any fiction—for Bedloe, without the e, what is it but Oldeb conversed!

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

She was so aged that she appeared unable to hear my greeting, and replied only mutteringly, while her bleary eyes gleamed up at me between fallen lids.

From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick