But the Colonel, grumbling, said thirty dollars was thirty dollars, and he reckoned he'd call it a deal.

There may be a great deal of grumbling, and a gradual move towards republicanism, or even communism; but this is an operose and empirical process, the parties engaged in it are full of misgivings, and their ranks at every step in advance are thinned by desertion.

His service in India enabled him to write for the remainder of his life with an untrammelled pen, and to live in comfort and ease, enjoying the otium cum dignitate, to which he attached supreme importance,so different from Carlyle, who toiled in poverty at Chelsea to declare truth for truth's sake, grumbling, yet lofty in his meditations, the depth of which Macaulay was incapable of appreciating.

In bad years there is plenty of grumbling here, and sometimes a little rioting; but it matters little, for here the sufferers are not the rulers.

Thomas Carlyle 13 THE GRUMBLING PUSS. 14 THE BROOK SONG.

ly in dig' nant un bear' a ble med' dle some en light' ened in quis' i tive THE GRUMBLING PUSS.

Remember he did Charles and I good service without grudge or grumbling.

A little grumbling is a wholesome medicine for the spleen; but in my inner heart do I approve and embrace this our close but unharassing way of life.

Paredes didn't speak at first, but Doctor Groom burst out in his grumbling, bass voice: "What's been going on up there?" "Did you hear just now a queer crying?"

It's grumbling against Providence, too!

What with the lamentations of the ghost-girls and the grumbling of families who had lost an ancestor, the village was upset for a while, and the funny thing was that it was the folk who had complained most of the carryings-on of the youngsters, who made most noise now that they were gone.

And yet nobody took any notice of this grumbling gentleman's recriminations.

'This misfortune set the people a-grumbling.' On the 21st, Brown held a consultation of his officers, and proposed to land three hundred men, at night, a mile from the town, so as to surprise it at daylight.

* Enough of pessimistic snarling and grumbling!

He seemed to have quit grumbling; his face was still.

Instead of grumbling at being obliged to do a little wholesome work, which is less, I am sure, than that of any other echo-dwarf upon the rocky hill-side, you should rejoice at the good fortune of the old man who has regained so much of his strength and vigor.

Suddenly came the crash of musketry from many parts of the city, accompanied by the grumbling bass of the gattling guns, then the defiant yells ceased, and all was quiet.

He thought of his father, at first robust, brazen-voiced, grumbling at every thingthen blind, querulous, with white, uncared-for beard.

The old man was still grumbling when Dixon came down agin, and said he believed he'd done it a-purpose.

I have heard grumbling and discontent from the young of either sex in the heyday of health and strength in going over the same ground.

I trod these selfsame streets an hour ago, But no eye sought me, greeting heard I none; Only, the while I stood and gazed about, I heard one rudely grumbling that I had No right to block the way, and stand and stare.

He had chosen the book which she wanted, but he gave it up to her at once without any grumbling, though Bernardine expected him to change his mind before they left the library.

I don't know how long I should not have gone on grumbling, but that I suddenly recollected what you taught me: that we were not to come down like sledge-hammers on each other's failings.

Bernardine gasped; and Mrs. Reffold continued: "His grumbling this afternoon has been incessant; so much so that he himself was ashamed, and asked me to forgive him.

"Well, Will," said his master one day to him, seeing that he had just finished his dinner, "have you had a good dinner to day?" (Will had been grumbling some time before.)