Meanings of distant mutterings in English

He had already begun to hear the distant mutterings of the storm.

I heard the distant mutterings of the storm, and soon the desolating tempest swept down fearfully upon them.

The distant mutterings of an approaching contest are driving scattered factions into a union of sentiment and action.

Gideon Spilett, who accompanied him, also heard these distant mutterings, which indicated a revivification of the subterranean fires.

Low threatening, distant mutterings of thunder from behind the mountains, told the party what they might expect before long.

The distant mutterings of thunder having long since ceased, he recognized that the volume of the stream was constantly lessening.

There was never, perhaps, a time when, on paper, things had seemed smoother, when the distant mutterings of disaster were less audible.

Perfect stillness reigned around, broken occasionally by the distant mutterings of a lion, or the melancholy cry of some beast or bird of prey.

Absorbed at Innspruck with the deliberations of the Trent Council, Charles had not heeded the distant mutterings of the tempest which was gathering around him.

Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills.