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He muttered something about how terrible it was, and walked with deliberate slowness to the elevator.
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During makeup tests, Snell was about to apply Plummer's wig when the actor muttered that he wanted no wig, with Chang's small amount of hair swept back into a warrior's topknot.
Following this, John Lydon, in response to a question about Mozart, muttered the word " shit " under his breath.
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I still remember walking down the street beside him as he muttered, ' I don't care how long I have to live with this system, I will never accept it.
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He then muttered that " that cat was the best fuck I ever had ".
Reynolds, who had gone to sleep after giving his proxy vote to Meade, woke up and muttered loud enough for Hooker to hear, " What was the use of calling us together at this time of night when he intended to retreat anyhow?
Barlow and Gaffney released the Weed Forestin ' cassette in 1987 on Homestead Records under the name Sebadoh, which was a nonsense word Barlow often muttered in his recordings.
( When Cao Cao's army was at Hanzhong, preparing for battle, Cao Cao was brought some soup with chicken ribs in it and thoughtlessly muttered the word " chicken rib " a few times.
On reaching the Sogdian territories the travellers were offered iron for sale, and solemnly exorcised ; Zemarchus was made to pass through the fire ( i. e. between two fires ), and strange ceremonies were performed over the baggage of the expedition, a bell being rung and a drum beaten over it, while flaming incense-leaves were carried round it, and incantations muttered in Scythian.
In Book 1 the Gnommish phrase « Ank Oo » was muttered by Mulch Diggums and it is believed to mean Good Luck or Thank You, though some people believe that he was just saying thank you with his jaw unhinged.
During that tournament Manley was accused of gamesmanship against Dennis Smith and in a later round against Taylor's protégé, Adrian Lewis Manley muttered words to his opponent, resulting in Lewis leaving the stage in anger.
muttered and walked
Once, Andrus walked by it, hastily scanned the bold black headline and the five-column lead of the article ( by Duane Bosch, staff correspondent -- age not given ), and muttered: `` We a buncha national celebrities ''.
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Grosse muttered, his head down, one hand playing with the zipper on his jacket.
" and the priests of Proserpine, complying through terror with the needs of Carthage, muttered the Eleusinian formula: " Pour out rain!
The outburst, in which Barry muttered, in part, " Bitch set me up ," became a popular quote associated with Barry.
Coming to in the Miller Hospital in Greenwich with a policeman standing over him, Denys muttered that Anna ’ s father, the Count Grimaldi must be told.
It is said that as the House of Commons thundered in an uproar at his stirring rhetoric, Churchill muttered in a whispered aside to a colleague, " And we ’ ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that ’ s bloody well all we ’ ve got!
I repeated queer extracts, and muttered of Afrasiab and the daemons that floated with him down the Oxus ; later chanting over and over again a phrase from one of Lord Dunsany's tales --" The unreverberate blackness of the abyss.
They are described in the 4th edition Rulebook as being able to " turn a man inside-out with a glance ", " snap a Battle Titan in half with a flick of the wrist ", and " a muttered syllable can turn an army upon itself in a frenzy of bloodlust ".
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`` I suppose '', he muttered, `` I can sell the outfit for enough to send you home to your folks, once we find a settlement ''.
`` I'll get her yet '', he muttered to himself.
The latter, thanking her for the coffee, had winked and muttered, `` Sure 'nuff, honey ''.
`` Didn't occur to me my child would be kidnaped when I had it listed '', Andrus muttered.
It is harder, he muttered, to meditate on man ( or woman ) than on God.
Watson had nodded absently and muttered that he would check the lists himself later.
`` My God '', he muttered.
`` Yes, yes '', he muttered impatiently.
He muttered, and took off, obviously feeling like a fool.
`` Uhhu '', she muttered.
With her hands clasped and legs crossed, Lucina muttered charms, thereby preventing Alcmene from giving birth.
With shy guffaws, muttered asides, dispassionate staring, foot-shuffling silences and complete mind-numbing gaps, punctuated by the odd piece of incisive home-spun philosophy from Brown, who occasionally hinted at a well-read mind.
" The driver muttered, " Me, too.
" The scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill forever ," he muttered, but I do not believe Vance heard him.
Also her country of birth, Italy, joined the war against Austria in 1915, and so rumours of the ' Italian ' Zita began to be muttered.
" Humorously acting anxious and distracted, Ford suffered through the clip ( which featured a scene showing Ford as Han Solo telling Chewbacca and his wife that they are " like family " to him ), and then muttered a gruff, sarcastic " Thank you.
During the trial, Ramírez often muttered " Hail Satan " and showed off the pentagram carved into his palm.
After a while he sighed, and muttered, “ All the same, you shouldn ’ t stay here.
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That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
`` I know something about Eromonga.
There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.
Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??
I murmured something about a possible difference between New Mexico's history and Mississippi's.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
I should have replied, `` I probably know something about the best part of you ''.
And there is something so wonderfully romantic about it all.
Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.
There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.
The party that won used to say something about a New Frontier.
One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress -- the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' -- Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and others -- including the eighty-year-old Marshal Voroshilov.
Toward the end of the war, we really felt that we had learned something about propaganda and how to teach it.
He thought about it briefly, then deliberately turned the talk to something else.
he felt he was noting it, as if it were something he might think about when he grew stronger.
He suspected something underhanded and furtive about him.
There was something maimed and crazy about its motion that disturbed them.
It always came on, faithfully, just like a radio or juke box, whenever he started to worry too much about something, when the bad things tried to push their way into him.
He thought that if once, only once, he could talk with Simms Purdew, something about his own life, and all life, would be clear and simple.
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