mutter
verb (used without object)
to utter words indistinctly or in a low tone, often as if talking to oneself; murmur.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Like a wave she will have rolled away; like a dream, she will have departed; like a thunder peal, she will have muttered into eternal silence.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger