"Grumpily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thank the miller for the frock— which bundle she saw carefully placed among the other packages in the body of the wagon— but Uncle Jabez listened very grumpily ...
— Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill • Alice B. Emerson
... this time with anger, but rather as though the Dowager's words had stirred some sense of guilt in his breast. He muttered something grumpily, and, discovering that his favourite pipe must have been left in his own den, he escaped from Lady Drummond for ...
— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan
... the commonest artifice of the trade, having gained your interest, the action of the story will now be suspended, leaving you grumpily to consider a sort of dull biography beginning fifteen ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... common-sensed girl," muttered Jephson, a little grumpily, as it seemed to me. "Where ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various
... Ernie said grumpily, "I don't like 'mights'. Why can't they leave a man alone and let him do his work? Why do ...
— All Day Wednesday • Richard Olin |
