Which preposition to use with growl
It ceased, and with the growl of a leaping animal a squall furiously beset the ship.
I really think he might have chanced it, but Handy Solomon, who had been watching me closely, growled at him.
The car trembled like a great, eager monster, growling in leash.
A GROWL FROM A BRITON.
We heard a low growl like a muttered imprecation within, and when the door opened there stood upon the threshold a tall, bearded, muscular old fellow in a dirty red shirt, with a big revolver shining in his hand.
To-night, what with being held off by his snow-shoes, what with utter weariness and a dulled axe, he growled to himself that he was "only gnawin' a ring round the tree like a beaver!"
Toad-in-the-hole sat down growling with suppressed wrath, and the universal "Hear, hear!" sufficiently showed that he spoke the general feeling.
I used to lecture him sometimes, and growl about him to Jim, but Jim always said, "Let him alone.
"I'm glad he doesn't waken Miss Axtell," I thought; and gradually Kino dropped his growls into low, plaintive moans, which in time died away.
Blood on the carpet, blood on the armchairs and antimacassars, even a little blood spurtled on to the wall, and what was worse, Mrs. Tebrick tearing and growling over a piece of the skin and the legs, for she had eaten up all the rest of it.
We barked for some letters, and growled for others.
This was nothing extraordinary, but they started guiltily to their feet when they saw me, and made off, growling under their breaths.
"Very well," he growled between his teeth, advancing towards me threateningly, his fists clenched in his rage.
had got down, livid; he had gone into a little courtyard, which they pointed out to me, and where a dog growled on the chain; he had seated himself on a stone close by a dunghill, and he had said, "I am thirsty."
He pointed to Tregarva; there was a fierce growl round the room.
It is to this passage that the Wolf owes its name and in a narrow place invisible from the road the water seems to growl after the manner of a wild beast at meat.
As by this ambitious union with those that are above her, she is always forced upon disadvantageous comparisons of her condition with theirs, she has a constant source of misery within; and never returns from glittering assemblies and magnificent apartments but she growls out her discontent, and wonders why she was doomed to so indigent a state.
A Dyeri, on being asked why he painted red and white spots on his skin, answered: "Suppose me no make-im, me tumble down too; that one [the corpse] growl along-a-me."
All at once, as we were passing a great clump of bushes, on our right, Pepper disappeared, and I could hear him sniffing and growling among them, in a suspicious manner.
Between us" I got no further, for with a sudden exclamationit sounded more like a growl than anything elseTommy had risen from his chair.
All night the wolves growled around her, but harmed her not; neither was she in the least frightened by them.
Thus it was that slowly out of chaos came order, yet it came not unopposed, for many and divers were they that growled against this new order of things; but Beltane's hand was swift and heavy, moreover, remembering how he had dealt with Tostig, they growled amain but hasted to obey.
The tendency disappeared shortly after the experimenter gave up the use of the growl as a method of punishing the animal for what were suspected to be careless choices.