What is "mumble"

Usage examples of "mumble".

By the time he finished burying the dead and Angelina finished mumbling and kneeling next to the mass grave, the sun had disappeared below the horizon and darkness settled softly over the land.

Mumbling something about seeing to Satan, Angelique bolted out the door before Brett could stop her.

Camille his thigh, and she, fancying herself on the boards, began to rub the sick man, whilst I mumbled in an undertone words which they would not have understood however clearly I had spoken, seeing that I did not understand them myself.

All except Curly, that is, since any strange emotion or sensation just tripped his boarish temper, so that he plowed ahead filled with mumbling anger.

I mumbled to Chubby, and we went to the heap of bodies about the shattered iron chest.

For a long time he lay gasping, watching sparks drift past as he slid in and out of a fractured near-sleep while Cumber sat beside him, mumbling to himself and moaning.

Fent and Tarn, before Min had threatened to punch their lights out, and even Fent had recognized someone potentially more violent than himself and had mumbled what amounted, almost, to an apology.

Imagine it: Those rigid, shock-headed figures, with corpsy complexions and fish glass eyes, occupying one side of the table in the constrained attitudes and dead fixedness that distinguish all men that are born of wax, and this wrinkled, smoldering old fire-eater occupying the other side, mumbling her prayers and munching her sausages in the ghostly stillness and shadowy indistinctness of a winter twilight.

Archmage looked at Ged and looked away, and began to speak in a tongue that Ged did not understand, mumbling as will an old old man whose wits go wandering among the years and islands.

For a moment, Gell had the terrible feeling the little wretch was lost, but soon Glert nodded, mumbling to himself.

Sergeant Hoong, on hearing this story, mumbled some noncommittal remarks, thinking by himself that thus neither was Warden Pang the criminal.

Behind him, Bass could hear an increasing spate of whisperings and mumbling among the humbler men who made up the most of the rebel force.

As he gave the mumbled command to Jolles, Crofton wheeled about, yanking his automatic from his pocket.

Reggie mumbled, well aware that he did not and that Kames was the exuberant, wealthy animal with whom she had been talking at the garden party, before she lectured on Mrs.

Mumbled words for salvation to the good Lordy were ejected from his parched lips that were repeated in desperation and abject misery.