Harper and Sharpe were new faces in a small town, and thus a cause for excited speculation.

All around them people were murmuring earnestly, the big room alive with excited speculations about their mission.

They passed the word back to those behind, in ominous murmurs that swelled into excited speculation in a matter of moments.

Ramage interrupted his spate of excited speculation with a harsh remark.

He listened as the brigadiers and the two- and three-stars joined in controlled but excited speculations.

No wonder that, after all his excited speculation, Hawking was forced to end on a sombre note.

There was a buzz of excited speculation, fragments of which met their ears.

There was much excited speculation on how many of the Box T riders had been involved.

Except, that is, in other guises - in later tales, and in the narrator's own excited speculations.

The findings were causing much excited speculation in the astrophysics lab.