murmur
/ˈmɝ.mɚ/ noun B2- Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water. · 1979: A translation of the Eclogues by Paul Alpers The windy murmur of the breeze subsides.
- Soft indistinct speech. · A murmur arose from the audience.
- The sound made by any condition which produces a noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.
- A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent.
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“For my part, I will bear all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart.”
“Here we are, Watson—this must be the one.” He threw it open, and as he did so there was a low, harsh murmur, growing steadily into a loud roar as a train dashed past us in the darkness.
It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead.
How great and still and wonderful everything was, with the murmur of the sea sounding through it and the darkling cliffs beyond like grim giants guarding enchanted coasts.
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