They were muttering and making sounds as the Men did when they were angry.

He was muttering as well, but only incoherent sounds, grunts and squeaks, as if his ability to make words were gone.

She grasped the trembling creature around the neck and stopped its flight, muttering soothing sounds.

"In your sleep," she told him, "you moan and you make muttering sounds, never words, and you thrash around as though you were hitting somebody."

Saint gently stroked her hair from her forehead, muttering soothing sounds to calm her as he waited for Maggie to return with the hot water.

She muttered sounds that weren't quite words.

His lips were muttering wordless sounds.

Spread halfway out in open air, the younger boy was muttering unintelligible sounds.

But Naomi shook off her hand, and muttered strange sounds to herself.

Muttering angry whoosh-whoosh sounds, she tapped a button on her spacesuit's stomach, making the suit slump off like wilting blades of grass.