"Great One," murmured the various people around the table.

"I'll be all right when I've had some more sleep," he murmured, around a wide yawn.

"A just sum," Plemia murmured around the sinking feeling in his stomach.

The tubes and cables murmured around him, as though resentful at being disturbed.

A dark, almost hungry sound of agreement murmured its way around the table.

In acknowledgment, the word "liability" was murmured around the table.

The women murmured around the circle to each other.

They went across to the chairs beside the fire which murmured around the edges of large beech logs.

A few meters away the yeomen could be heard murmuring around their own small blaze.