The crowd caught the direction of her thoughts, and a very ugly murmur started up.

An ugly murmur began.

An ugly murmur arose.

Then they scowled, and an ugly murmur began.

An ugly murmur arose at his back, threaded through by the louder voice of the trader and sibilant whispers of sorcery.

An ugly murmur ran through the crowd as Moses and Elijah arrived, but no one was bold enough to confront them.

The throng arose with ugly murmurs as they saw four of their fellows bringing The Shadow on their shoulders.

But this was something new, and Darkovans in the streets put off minding their own business to watch it; to follow and murmur that singular and ugly murmur which is, perhaps, the first thing a Terran on a hostile world learns to identify.

His words set off an ugly murmur that increased in ugliness as it built.

By now a newer and uglier murmur of noise was going around the camp.