mumbled

I mumbled some politeness in answer to his unanswerable opening, and started the one possible topic of the weather.

"Oh, if—if you really don't mind—" she mumbled apologetically.

But the seaman was deaf with rage, and he left the house without hearing the mumbled petition of an apparently penitent Elder.

I should say I was in a tough corner all around, mumbled the man; and praps itd be better for me to go as soon as Im able.

"I am only showing it to Nathan," he mumbled by way of explanation.

Leander mumbled something, but he did not quite dare to disobey when his sister spoke like that.

Then I secured my hat, mumbled a few excuses, and disappeared, to see how Hawkins was spending the evening.

"Sorry we startled you," Whitaker mumbled, wondering how the deuce he was going to get home.

And such is the advantage of a classical education, that he mumbled a line from a Greek pedant, another from a Roman bore.

Denys read the objection like the observant warrior he was, seized them and mumbled them.