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present participle and gerund of murmur quotations examples
Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
countable and uncountable, plural murmurings
A sound that murmurs. examples
A complaint against something. quotations examples
Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Philippians 2:14
When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.
1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant