murmurous

adj

1. Low, indistinct (of a sound); reminiscent of a murmur.

   “Like as a fire, the which in hollow cave Hath long bene underkept, and down supprest, With murmurous disdaine doth inly rave, And grudge, in so streight prison to be prest,”

   “Throughout all the isle There was no covert, no retired cave Unhaunted by the murmurous noise of waves, Though scarcely heard in many a green recess.”

   “He felt some dark presence moving irresistably upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself.”

   “Waiting, with a glass in my hand —three girls in crimson satin pass close before me on the murmurous background of the crowded opera—”

   “Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge,”