Spock's pronouncement was greeted by a quiet murmuring and shifting that coursed fleetingly through the late-shift bridge crew and was gone.

Rising to her feet, Morganna ignored Clint's quiet murmuring of her name as she inhaled deeply and stared back at Jayne.

I heard quiet murmurings in several dialects, laughter, a child crying, and a faint, yearning melody sung softly by a woman.

She must have slept, because when she came to again she heard the crackling of a fire and the quiet murmuring of men at a meal.

Lot 103 caused those quiet murmurings that always precede the sale of a masterpiece.

That announcement met with a stunned silence, which was broken by quiet murmuring.

From outside the hall came the quiet murmurings of servants in their goings and comings, a voice lifted in question, another laughing to answer.

There was a quiet murmuring among the prisoners at that announcement.

But there have been quiet murmurings of an eighth wonder.

Although quiet murmuring is allowed at some meals, silence is required when a sign is posted.