His magnificent physique, and the face of a Greek statue, would have lured from a woman a more complimentary description than the term "young ruffian" which Judge Barton had instantly but inaudibly fastened upon him.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
He could not have set down in ordered phrases the conclusions at which he was arriving; a ship's captain in time of war has not the leisure to reduce psychological phenomena to their ultimate first principles; but he was not far wrong in muttering, inaudibly, that "the man was rattled."
"Command"
William McFee
The dying man heard it, however, and opening his eyes, said, almost inaudibly: "Is that you, Hudsley?"
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice