Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Mutter

Muttering like the murmur of hurried priest dispatching a prayer.
—Victor Hugo

Mutter like sullen bulls.
—Charles Kingsley

He sits muttering in his beard. His voice
Is like a river flowing underground.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Muttering like smoked bees.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Mutters like a dim despair.
—Frank Waters