" During the week which followed every man did his full duty, and we heard very little grumbling, although I am sorry to set it down that some of the faint-hearted did wag their tongues more than was seemly; but on the whole the garrison showed themselves to be fairly good soldiers.

And if a woman "submits" and yet keeps up a continual grumbling and nagging about it, a man simply despises her.

And now my advocate began asking questionsvague, useless questionsin a slow, hesitating fashion which set Toussac grumbling.

" The seaman disappeared grumbling, while LeVere crossed the poop deck, and stood beside me looking out across the expanse of sea.

By dint of bribery and ridicule, we had at length managed to get our boatmen to work tolerably well; and when we were alike well roasted by the sun and repeatedly drenched, besides being tired out and hungry, they had become quite submissive, and exchanged their grumbling for merriment.

You'll excuse a farmer's grumbling.

He heard a faint grumble and now and then a squeak.

I will interpret this stammering; I will interpret the grumblings, the murmurs, the tumults of crowds, the complaints ill-pronounced, and all these cries of beasts that, through ignorance and through suffering, man is forced to utter ...

Our people would not like itthey'd grumble.

You all suffer dragging on this existence of slaves to the sword, the nation who pays grumbles at seeing you inactive, and forgets other superfluous expenses to fix its complaints solely on the military.

This business puts the grumbling out of your head.

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

And still Alice waited for her lover, silencing Mother Bonneton's grumblings with a look that this hard old woman had once or twice seen in the girl's face and had learned to respect.

Private William Thomson, however, had already started his inevitable grumbling.

Dreams of this kind did not tend to promote his efficiency in the communistic labors of the camp, and brought him a self-isolation that, however gratifying at first, soon debarred him the benefits of that hard practical wisdom which underlaid the grumbling of his fellow-workers.

I understood now the crew's grumbling.

He smiled with great good nature upon Mr. Roundjacket, as he uttered this simple excuse, and so winning was the careless sunshine of his countenance, that honest Roundjacket, uttering an expiring grumble, declared that nothing was more natural than his drowsiness.

On hearing footsteps and voices, he instinctively gathered his dish of food close to him, and began some morose grumblings; but when he was told that it was "Shaw-nee-aw-kee" who was addressing him, his features relaxed into a more agreeable expression, and be even held forth his dish and invited us to share its contents.

Moze heard it, for he stopped wagging his tail, his body grew tense under my hand, and he vented his low, deep grumble.

At dinner the old man ate so little that Rose Hobbett ceased her monotonous grumbling to ask if he felt well.

But he checks the coming grumble, when not the maid, but Lucia enters.