murmuring

“the murmurings of trees in the wind”

“Do all things without murmurings and disputings.”

“When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.”

“Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.”