159 collocations for grumbles

I am sorry to say he grumbled a good deal at first at the proximity of the cobbler, and at having to meet him in his walks about the garden; but this was a point on which Mr MacMichael, who of course took the old man's complaints good-humouredly, would not budge, and he had to reconcile himself to it as he best might.

Who has been telling you that?" "No one," grumbled the man.

That's a two or three hundred dollar job, and may make your owner grumble a little, but it's no killing matter.

" "I don't know about that," grumbled Conrad.

"I, too, did bid for Mesahchie," grumbled a voice, in tones not altogether joyless, and Peelo shoved his broad-cheeked, jovial face for a moment into the light.

"Take more room for your milk-maid," grumbled the Alderman, observing that the schipper was willing to gratify his passengers, by running as near as possible to the dark sides of the cruiser.

"Something's up," grumbled Heywood, "when the doctor forgets to pose.

" "You're nothing but slips o' girls, not out of your teens," grumbled the Major.

"Shucks, I might have known it," grumbled Racey; "middle-aged old maid!

" "Dey mought and den again dey moughtn't," grumbled the old woman, but undaunted Patty went on measuring and weighing with a surety of success that is found only in the young and inexperienced.

"He must have been smoking the pipe when we knocked at the door, and dashed away to hide before she let us in," grumbled the inspector.

" "People don't know how to dance nowadays," grumbled Major Shirley in response.

"Our class named it 'sticky fly paper.'" "It was rightly named," grumbled Farley.

"I don't see what you find to look so pleased about, Evadne," grumbled Isabelle, as they drove homeward.

' 'Horton is a clever fellow enough, as country doctors go; but at Hastings I could have had the best physicians in London to see me,' grumbled his lordship.

"Why, how we can pay out the Philistines!" "Oh, bother the Philistines!" grumbled Jack, and promptly returned to the land of dreams.

"Hold still, will you, Luke?" "Yo're taking twice as many stitches as necessary," grumbled Luke.

The servant appeared surprised, and grumbled a few words under her breath.

"Never in the world!" grumbled Tignol.

" "La, yes," grumbled the old lady, "but it's dretful thoughtless in her ter stay away so long, when she knows the stoopin' cums so hard on my rheumatiz.

Is that the right word, lads?" The others grumbled assent, but their muttered words had in them a ring of sincerity, and their faces exhibited no cowardice.

" Still grumbling treason, this strange second rejoined his principal.

"You can talk that way because you have no little sister," grumbled Hannah.

" "He's having a lord's life of it, while we're slaving ourselves to death," grumbled Mr. Kidd.

" "That case," grumbled the captain, "we'd better signal your Hakka boat, and clear out.

159 collocations for  grumbles