"Grumbler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bright upright fearlessness—his shoulders were learning to bend, his head to slouch forward. One needed but to glance at him to see that Geoffrey Tudor was fast becoming that most disagreeable of social characters, a grumbler! And with grumbling unrepressed, and indulged in, come worse things, for it has its root in that true "root of ...
— Great Uncle Hoot-Toot • Mrs. Molesworth
... no great affair. There was plenty of water, and they were carried racing smoothly down between low rocky banks. Stonor named the place the Grumbler from the deep ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... we are full, old Grumbler,' said the tar; 'others are more active than you; but here, we are just alongside of the Betsy. Ship, ahoy! Throw us a ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various
... pessimist, nor misanthrope, nor grumbler; I bear it all, the burden of Public Affairs, the immensity of Space, the brevity of Life, and the thought of the all-swallowing Grave—all this I put up with without impatience. I accept the common lot. And ...
— More Trivia • Logan Pearsall Smith
... it is a nuisance bringing us up like this," chorused Mr Quadrant, a fellow-grumbler of the same kidney. "We might have carried on as we were standing, if those blessed Parlyvoos, had only let us alone; while now, when we do make a start again, the wind will most probably have headed ...
— Crown and Anchor - Under the Pen'ant • John Conroy Hutcheson
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