Mutterings

No twitches, twists, mutterings nor distractions could be seen or heard in the ranks.

When he appeared in front of MSPs in August he was asked by Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton if he had heard any “scuttlebutt”, “rumour mill” or “mutterings” about Mr Salmond’s conduct in relation to bullying or sexual misconduct.

There have also been mutterings in the British media that Leo Varadkar is coming under domestic political pressure to alter his government's position on the backstop.

Amid grumbles and mutterings about Air Jatayu’s declining standards, the passengers had dispersed themselves back among the waiting-lounge chairs, wondering what this was all about with a sense of irked amusement.

Classical necromancers addressed the dead in "a mixture of high-pitch squeaking and low droning", comparable to the trance-state mutterings of shamans.

While most Greeks considered their own culture superior to all others (the word barbarian is derived from mutterings that sounded to Greek ears like "bar-bar"), Alexander was unique in promoting a campaign to win the hearts and minds of the Persians.