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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Murmur (Verb)
 
  Murmurs like a dreaming sea.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Murmuring like bees at honey-time.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Murmuring like the sound of the sea.
            —Robert Hugh Benson		  3
  Murmured like a shell.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  4
  Murmur like a hive.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  5
  Murmur like the moan of far-off seas.
            —Robert Buchanan		  6
  They murmureden as dooth a swarm of been.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  7
  Murmured like a whispering priest.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  8
  Murmur like the gales of spring.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  9
  Murm’ring they move, as when old ocean roars.
            —Homer (Pope)		  10
  Murmured like the humming of a bee.
            —Thomas Hood		  11
  Murmur like the wind in the leaves.
            —Mary Johnston		  12
  Murmur as of waves upon a seashore.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  13
  Murmur like the rustle of dead leaves.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  14
            Murmuring to her ears
Like to a falling stream, which, passing slow,
Is wont to nourish sleep and quietness.
            —Sir Walter Raleigh		  15
  Murmured like seas that are tempesting.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  16
  Low like dirge-wail or requiem they murmured.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  17
  Murmurs … like a bell that calls to prayer.
            —John Ruskin		  18
  Murmured like a noontide bee.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  19
  Murmuring like the ocean roar.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  20
  Murmured … like breathings of a shell.
            —Elizabeth O. Smith		  21
  Murmur … as when at twilight hour the summer breeze moves o’er the elmy vale.
            —Robert Southey		  22
  Murmur like a shell.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  23
  Murmurs as who talks in dreams with death.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  24
  Murmur like the wind among the trees.
            —S. G. Tallentyre		  25
  The verse murmurs … like the moan of doves in immemorial elms.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  26
  A veiled stream murmurs like thoughts of Heaven in a dream.
            —Thomas Wade		  27
 
 
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