"Grouch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and fox-trot your grouch away with Shine Taylor. Here comes the wine I ordered—What's your name, girlie? Where ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball
... train all that he had anticipated, and then some; but being one of that fortunate cult who arise happily, sing in bathrooms to the annoyance of neighbors who waken with a grouch, enjoy breakfast, and tackle each day as if it were certain to be filled with sunshine, soon found the position entertaining. Although he knew nothing at all about the subject, he even indulged in a learned discussion on cattle with his ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... not ready, her sudden wish to do something magnificent for America turned into what she called a "before-coffee grouch," and she sat on the porch waiting for the bell, and hoping that the conversational Mr. Schwirtz wouldn't come and converse. It was to his glory that he didn't. He appeared in masterful white-flannel trousers and a pressed blue coat and a new Panama, which looked well on his fleshy but trim head. ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
... gone hard with her. She's probably got a grouch, as the American boys over here say. We must try and do something to soften her down, and make her see things through rosier spectacles, if she and her brother join on to our party for ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... Peter, "I visited him, but I didn't find out much. He's a regular old grouch. He isn't the least bit neighborly. It took me a long time to find him. He has more holes than anybody I ever knew, and I couldn't tell which one is his home. When I did find him, he gave me a terrible scare. I didn't see ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess |
