He could hear muttered voices, the scrape of footsteps.

A muttered voice spurred on the attack, and that voice sounded vaguely familiar.

He was aware of the eyes that followed him, of the muttered voices wondering what he would do.

The soft droning of muttered voices throbbed in her head.

They were all leaping out, talking in low voices, splashing to and fro in the water as they began unloading boxes, wooden crates which they supported on their shoulders with difficulty, stacking them on the soft grass, talking in low muttered voices, glancing furtively about them the whole time.

A moment's silence then low muttered voices and the slamming of car doors.

She shut out the muttered voices and the laughter and further unpleasant gossip about the amours of others.

They were silent, waiting for the signal, and in that unnatural quiet, the creaking timbers of Ventulus seemed almost like muttered voices over the slap of waves against the hull.

Then we could hear the susurration of muttered voices.