"The Peter Pan of the arts--"
"Yes. I trust you recall the outstanding biological freakishness of Peter."
"Oh!" replied Henshaw. When Merton Gill dared to glance up a moment later the men were matching coins at the counter. When they went out he left a half- eaten meal and presently might have been observed on a swift-rolling street-car. He mumbled as he blankly surveyed palm-bordered building sites along the way. He was again rehearsing a tense scene with the Montague girl. In actor parlance he was giving himself all the best of it. But they were new lines he mumbled over and over.英文原著 · 《Merton of the Movies》
"That you shall not be the Duchess of Osmonde," he said, drawing near to her; "that you shall be the wife of Sir John Oxon, as you once called yourself for a brief space, though no priest had mumbled over us--"英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Who is she?" she said, pointing with her finger at Anne's face, her own full of lovely fear lest the child should not speak rightly his lesson. "What is her name? Mammy's man say--" and she mumbled softly with her crimson mouth at his ear.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"Know you what he calls you?" she said. "'Tis but a mumble, his little tongue is not nimble enough for clearness, but he says it his pretty best. 'Tis Mother Anne, he says--'tis Mother Anne."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
He threw himself on his knees directly, and kissed and mumbled her hand, and bedewed it with hysterical tears.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
She left him again and his galloping thought pounded to the old refrain. " To go to the devil-to go to the devil-to go to the devil with this girl is not a bad fate-not a bad fate- not a bad fate." When she returned he drank his glass of champagne. Then he mumbled: " You must be cold. Let me put your cape around you better. It won't do to catch cold here, you know."英文原著 · 《Active Service》
- Ralph mumbles a lot. - Does Ralph mumble...美剧 · 《Friends》
James, just put on your big-boy pants and meet your father at a bar of your choice so we can mumble, like men, over a beer.美剧 · 《Shameless》
I'm not falling for that phony, mumbley-mouth, googly-eyed routine again.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》