Memories poured through her, now, clues, suspicions, half- heard mutterings when they'd thought she was asleep.

The house was not large or high, and he fancied that he heard mutterings on the landing-place.

Then I heard mutterings, and, as I stepped up, one of the elder men, Archelaus Warne by name, was pushed forward.

She'd heard mutterings among the slaves about a death that could reach out and strike any air-breather who dared attempt to escape.

Ellis decided not to look back but heard mutterings and imagined a gathering there, swirls of people drawn close, eddying in their wake.