Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Murmur (Verb)

Murmurs like a dreaming sea.
—Anonymous

Murmuring like bees at honey-time.
—Anonymous

Murmuring like the sound of the sea.
—Robert Hugh Benson

Murmured like a shell.
—R. D. Blackmore

Murmur like a hive.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Murmur like the moan of far-off seas.
—Robert Buchanan

They murmureden as dooth a swarm of been.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Murmured like a whispering priest.
—Aubrey De Vere

Murmur like the gales of spring.
—Aubrey De Vere

Murm’ring they move, as when old ocean roars.
—Homer (Pope)

Murmured like the humming of a bee.
—Thomas Hood

Murmur like the wind in the leaves.
—Mary Johnston

Murmur as of waves upon a seashore.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Murmur like the rustle of dead leaves.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Murmuring to her ears
Like to a falling stream, which, passing slow,
Is wont to nourish sleep and quietness.
—Sir Walter Raleigh

Murmured like seas that are tempesting.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Low like dirge-wail or requiem they murmured.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Murmurs … like a bell that calls to prayer.
—John Ruskin

Murmured like a noontide bee.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Murmuring like the ocean roar.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Murmured … like breathings of a shell.
—Elizabeth O. Smith

Murmur … as when at twilight hour the summer breeze moves o’er the elmy vale.
—Robert Southey

Murmur like a shell.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Murmurs as who talks in dreams with death.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Murmur like the wind among the trees.
—S. G. Tallentyre

The verse murmurs … like the moan of doves in immemorial elms.
—Alfred Tennyson

A veiled stream murmurs like thoughts of Heaven in a dream.
—Thomas Wade