I gave an angry growl, and jumping up, bit at his leg.

While he was speaking, the mastiff, being jostled by the two llamas still awkwardly worrying each other, turned round so suddenly, that the mouse was dislodged from his lofty position, and thrown to the ground; on seeing which, the cat immediately sprang upon it, with a loud purring noise, which being heard by the dog, he, with a fierce growl, suddenly seized the cat.

Kino kept up a low, ominous growl, quite different from his first barking.

Their loud barking changed to sullen growls as she approached; and, motioning them to be still, she stopped and gazed at Stafford, who stepped out into the moonlight.

All at once there came a low, muttered growl, stealing across the land; and immediately the crying was quenched in its sullen thunder.

A loud bark, followed by a ferocious growl, and a scream of mortal pain broke on the air; then a pistol-shot, and a long, pitiful gasp, and silence.

A hoarse growl, the rush of a great hound, a desperate struggle in the snow, and the still air of morning is burdened suddenly with wild clamor.

As the bitch sneaked wolfishly to the back of my legs I attempted to caress her, an action that provoked a long, guttural growl.

He gave a slight growl, the hair on his neck stood up, and he made a quick movement toward the girl.

Buddy Bear's lost growl.

He was about to go over to the wall when some one seized him from behind, and he heard a gruff voice growl in his ear: "Who are you?" The boy turned quickly, and, in the confusion of the moment, he thought he was facing a huge rock, covered with brownish moss.

There were loud protests at this desertion from her coterie of friends, and numerous dark threats were uttered against the gallant Marquis who had thus captured the queen of the "Birds," but Ninon explained her reason in such a plausible manner that their complaints subsided into good-natured growls.

The old man bore it all, relieving himself by an occasional growl, but reproaching any who ventured to join in the growl for their indifference to the sufferings of poverty.

At this point, as if on cue, a loud growl echoed from the vicinity of the tiger.

He sniffed the air once or twice, gave two or three peculiar low growls, and all those dogs except Satan lost the civilization of centuries and went back suddenly to the time when they were wolves and were looking for a leader.

But the aspect, and the savage growls and barks, of the creature seemed to indicate differently, and the girls shrank back.

Sometimes his voice is so low, and the words crowd one upon another so fast, that the muttering is like the prolonged growl of a wild beast; then the mood changes, and the unseen man seems to be addressing an invisible audience in grand sonorous sentences as though he were a Cicero; and perhaps he may be, but as he speaks in patois his eloquence is lost upon me.

Complain, grumble, growl, murmur, repine, whine, croak.

" "Say," remarked the burly youth in what was intended to be a menacing growl, "this party ain't over yet.

" Pap Himes looked at her, at the beads, and gave the fierce, inarticulate, ludicrously futile growl of a thwarted, perplexed animal.

One of the gentlemen, too, affirmed that he heard the growl of a bear; it must, however, have been a very gentle growl, as no one else heard it, although we were all close together.

" "I suppose so," returned he in a gloomy growl.

"Humph," he said, with his habitual growl, "suppose a man is made utterly wretched in this world" "Yes, sir.

[In a longer, more hesitant growl.]

A wild plunge through tangled brush and limbs, another more appalling shriek, and a dark, shadowy form, with a fierce, hungry growl, crouched in the pathway just before them, with its yellow, tawny, cruel eyes flashing in their faces.