It is true that there was no mutinous talk to be heard; the fate of the deserters had taught the grumblers a lesson that would not soon be forgotten, but much was said that did not tend to improve the discipline.

Rome pities her brave lads that die, But we need pity also, you and I, Whom Gallic spear and Belgian arrow miss, Who live to see the Legion come to this, Unsoldierlike, slovenly, bent on loot, Grumblers, diseased, unskilled to thrust or shoot.

German newspapers, it is true, prove that the national unity so loudly acclaimed was no empty word; moreover, they show conclusively that grumblers and half-hearted enthusiasts were not lacking.

But the Nabals are sullen; they are grumblers; they are never done.

Children begin by being good-natured little grumblers at every thing which goes wrong, simply from the outspokenness of their natures.

" The race of grumblers would soon die out if all children were so trained that never, between the ages of five and twelve, did they utter a needless complaint without being gently reminded that it was foolish and disagreeable.

Grumblers are the only thing in this world that it is right to grumble at.

A riding-school is a place from which every woman issues better contented than she entered, and there is no sympathy for grumblers.

But still it in some degree silenced the grumblers, and for the rest of the reign no one contested the queen's right to decide who should, and who should not, be admitted to her society.

But now, off tore the fishes, mad with terror, big fishes, little fishes, fat fellows, lean fellows, pleasant ones, and grumblers.

"And here I am just in the act of annihilating with a logical stroke a multitude of grumblers and croakers.

To satisfy grumblers, he took Savoy and Nice.

The most trying were the chronic grumblers, who did not know what they wanted, nor what they ought to have, and adopted the moody refrain:

After 1789, the old Egypt faction ceased to exist, except as grumblers; but the States-Rights men, though obliged to acquiesce in the Constitution, endeavored, by every means of "construction" their ingenuity could furnish, to weaken and restrict the exercise and the range of its power.

They sank into the position of mere grumblers, with one leading principle,admiration of England, and a willingness to submit to any insults which England in her haughtiness might please to inflict.

'He was one of my old grumblers in Egypt.'

Yet it is done every day, and all lost; and if women who see their children and themselves thus reduced to poverty, complain, they are stigmatized as fretful, unwomanly grumblers.

Provided they are really ill, she sympathises with all the grumblers, but scolds them if they have reached the convalescent stage.

"'Tis a xebec," growled the master, who was one of the grumblers of the day"a fellow with his hold crammed with a wine that would cover the handsomest woman's face in Lunnun with wrinkles.

No doubt some of them were confirmed grumblers, and many of them had what Colonel Christie called 'unreasonable expectations.'

The Daily Express having invited its readers to intimate their opinion of that journal, Mr. Punch decided also to give the grumblers a chance of saying what they think of his production, and he now publishes a typical selection of the letters which have reached him: Sir,I gave up your journal many years ago on account of its partisanship, and never read it now.

I know has come in, of late, for some abuse, and some grumblers have made a dead set at it.

The peace is always a German idea of peacefor the extreme grumblers do not talk freely in publicand the food talk is not always the result of the shortage, but of the great difficulty in getting what is to be obtained, together with the increasing monotony of the diet.

* A sparkling, joyous nature, a kind of living protest against grumblers; he is fat and healthy, eats a great deal, every one likes him but only because they are afraid of the grumblers; he is a nobody, a Ham, only eats and laughs loud, and that's all; when he dies, every one sees that he had done nothing, that they had mistaken him for some one else.

* A sparkling, joyous nature, a kind of living protest against grumblers; he is fat and healthy, eats a great deal, every one likes him but only because they are afraid of the grumblers; he is a nobody, a Ham, only eats and laughs loud, and that's all; when he dies, every one sees that he had done nothing, that they had mistaken him for some one else.