"He's had a blow on the head," he muttered after a quick examination.

"There's a word here I can't make out", he muttered, after a moment.

"I think we're clean," he muttered to Jake after yet another careful look through the rear window.

"We can take this up in the morning, maybe," he muttered after a while.

We should never have come,' she muttered after a long silence, 'and if I had my way, we'd leave here tomorrow.

"We chose the gowns to fit you," the other woman muttered after a moment.

He had time to mutter his address, she to whisper, "After ten?"

"sonofabitch," he muttered after a few minutes, everything falling into place.

"I must have a little time to think," Stoutenburg muttered to himself, after a while.

He would have to be very careful not to mutter to himself after this.