Which preposition to use with grunting
The sound of heavy breathing, dull blows, the tear of cloth; and grunts of punishment received; the swirl of the sand, the heave of struggling bodies, all riveted my attention, so that I did not see Captain Ezra Selover until he stood almost at my elbow.
" The entire company grunted in unison.
There was a sharp wrench, an odd crack, a grunt from Uncle Pros, and then the mountaineer sprang to his full and very considerable height with a roar.
He grunted with displeasure, and said something low to his father.
ed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost.
Toby at one time managed to cling to the other's back for a brief moment, but was dislodged by a clever fling that sent him crashing against a tree, and made him grunt like a hog that receives a jolt.
" That same evening, as they sat in the tent in an interval of relief from the Colonel's muttering monotone, they heard Nig making some sort of unusual manifestation outside; heard the grunting of those pioneer pigs; heard sounds of a whispered "Sh! Kaviak.
" "I'd like to see anybody let out so much as a grunt about you in front of me.
They were grunting to one another, softly.
Can you fancy yourself in a peer's robe with a velvet-lined coronet, Staff?" Stafford grunted for reply, and there was silence for a minute, during which Howard turned over the pages of one of the illustrated weeklies which lay on the table, and suddenly he looked up and exclaimed: "Have you seen this?" Stafford shook his head.
Columbus subsided, not very willingly, dropping with a grunt into the hole he had made.
" Joe considered this a very proper sentiment, and gave a grunt by way of endorsing it; he, too, followed Ted and the gander, being as much amused at the transaction as it was in his nature to be at anything.
So as (old Homer sung) the associates wild Of wandering Ithacus, by Circe's charms To swine transformed, ran grunting through the groves.
None of his brothers or sisters was near him, and he could not hear his mamma or papa grunting near the feed trough.
Discipline did not permit even a darling like little Phil to speak at dinner-time; but he fidgeted, and the tears came into his eyes, and Anne hearing a little grunt behind Sir Philip's chair, looked up, and was aware that old Ralph was mumbling what to her ears sounded like: 'Knew too well.'
" At first Pap merely grunted over these homesick repinings; but after a time he began to hang about her and offer counsel which was often enough peevishly received.
Now and then they stirred, or grunted during the night, but they did not wake up until morning.
First drink the stars, then grunt amid the mire, So shall the mire have something of the stars, And the high stars be fragrant of the mire.
Sealman sweated and grunted under the open lid of the bright bonnet.
The great bulls of the herd stood still and lifted their ears when they heard him grunting up the hill.
Ted, who gallantly helped her to her feet, remarked, with a grunt due to extreme effort, that she really might as well stand up or enlist the entire four legs of a chair to support her.
According to the books, the frost has split something, but it is a fearful sound, this grunt as of a man stunned.
He cupped his hands over his mouth and bellowed through the doorway, "Hey!" There was a startled grunt within, a deep, heavy voice and a thick articulation.