The silence was broken by an occasional mutter from Vorkosigan, more to himself than her, of phrases like, "Ah ha!

All he heard was echoing silence and an occasional, distant mutter and weird cry from the immense pteranodon's cage.

So he went to sleep feeling, if not cheered, certainly with his conscience doing little more than an occasional mutter.

She subsided into silence then, excepting the occasional mutter featuring mercenary ships landing in Solcintra Mid-Port and that had better be two squads of proctors.

For all that, an occasional mutter came unheeded to his ears, the closed curtains preserving articulate sounds like room walls.

There was only an occasional mutter as one of the robots beside him switched to some new investigation.

He ate on command, slept on command; he spoke to no one save an occasional mutter to Yane who hunched along beside him.

LATER, unable to sleep himself, he listened to her: the sigh of her breath, the occasional mutter - far away and indistinct.

She remembered the familiar shlup-shlip of water against the hull and the occasional mutter of wild squawks settling down.

Yesterday, Edberg just didn't have it, double faulting, 18 times in all, and showing irritation, which for him means an occasional mutter.