"Not like he is now," a voice muttered behind me.

Two or three muttered to each other behind their hands as they looked at him.

No one spoke to me, asked me the obvious questions, muttered behind my back.

People looked hard at her and muttered behind her back.

"Used to be a nice quiet village," someone muttered behind them.

My friends muttered behind me, afraid of the unknown-but they followed.

"I thought we already were," Cherek muttered somewhere behind me.

The grandees from the capital muttered back and forth behind their hands.

He could hear the whispered words muttered behind Sirian hands as they passed.

"Their Prophet wouldn't have sent them if they weren't going to win," a man muttered behind his back.