Careful Words

murmuring (n.)

murmuring (adj.)

Fled

Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 1014.

Sweet is every sound,

Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet;

Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn,

The moan of doves in immemorial elms,

And murmuring of innumerable bees.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Princess. Part vii. Line 203.

Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 263.