"As soon as the snow melted," was the muttered reply.

"It wasn't exactly something that brought us honour, after the mountain ate my leg," was Polyam's muttered reply.

He knocked on the door, and took the muttered reply as permission to enter.

"Because he would die on thy doorstep," was old Pepita's muttered reply.

Curdie heard only a muttered reply in the distance; and then the cave was quite still.

Gillis's response to Desmond's cry that "the pictures got small" is a muttered reply, "I knew something was wrong with them."

The water rushed noisily into the kettle, drowning Kit's muttered reply.

I want my tea," was the muttered and lyrical reply.

Polly wished them good morning and received muttered replies, so she sat down composedly and waited.

He ignored their muttered replies as he walked up to the gates.