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The first replay showed a murmur of a noise on the technology and Smith immediately started to walk from the field.

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I’ll pause here for general gasping and shrieking, and murmurs of, “Wait, there’s a dividend?”

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It speaks volumes that, when Lawrence Shankland - the Scottish Premiership's top goalscorer this season - was turned to in the 64th minute as the Scots searched for a goal, it was met with murmurs of surprise.

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Solemnly the children would bring the envelope to Mrs. Clarke, who would pat each of them on the cheek and murmur, “Ah, Miss Lumley! I hope she’s getting on all right, poor thing!”

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“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,” Penelope murmured under her breath.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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