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

Murmur (Noun)

A vague and monotonous murmur, like that of the waves on a shore where the wind dies away with approaching night.
—Anonymous

Murmurs passed along the valleys, like the banshee’s lonely croon.
—Anonymous

A murmur like the sough of bees
Hidden among the noon-stilled linden trees.
—James Russell Lowell

A deep sullen murmur … like the moaning noise that goes before the whirlwind on the deep.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay

Murmurs, like the sea’s, dying uncomprehended.
—T. Buchanan Read

A murmur like the winds that break
Into green waves the prairie’s grassy lake.
—John Greenleaf Whittier